Rattle: The PPP! Review!

New review of Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! at Rattle!

ATTICUS!

I have new poems here, with a very kind introduction by my good friend Michael Meyerhofer. It's nice to have good, kind friends.

Yea for Big Messes!

Tonight, I read in Akron as part of the Big Mess Reading series.

Stoked about Stoked!

I'm in

STOKED, vol. IV

yea!

The NEA!

The problem with the NEA is that it's unnecessary.

Fuck the National Endowment for the Arts.

I'm an artist.

I think art is great! I love it! I'm super fucking liberal.

But I don't need money from anyone, let alone the government,

to make art.

Without any evidence, I will say this: No great work of art

from the 20th century needed money from the NEA.

But I don't think a person needs or deserves a sabbatical

to do their work either. I say, if you can't do it by your own means,

then fuck it. I'm sure there are exceptions: blah, blah, blah.

I'm mainly talking about poetry and writing. Poets don't

need a grant from the NEA to write poems. And Poetry wouldn't

be better if it got more grants from the NEA.

Something I Will Do at AWP

http://www.facebook.com/events/127059357405994/

How I Roll to AWP

In a Honda Element.

With my wife.

With a nine year old.

With a five year old.

With plans for the aquarium

and the museum

and the who knows?

But no panels.