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My new chapbook, TRAVIS, is available now for pre-order

Hey everyone,

Fast on the heels of Parking Lot Horizon, I’ve got another book going on pre-order today. Travis is a collection of prose poems that “looks into the mirror of TAXI DRIVER’s Travis Bickle, presenting a montage of fact and fiction from inside the American nightmare.” Some excerpts recently appeared online at Blue Bag’s Resources, and you can find info about how to order on the bookstore page (you can also order by replying to this message).

I’ll be taking pre-orders throughout June, and then will ship it near month’s end. It will be $15 on its own (shipping included). I’m also offering a BUNDLE DEAL: get Travis and Parking Lot Horizon together for $20. (There are only 9 copies of PLH left, so this is a limited offer.)

Front and back cover, in army jacket green

Some samples (best viewed at website, not in email)

In other news, on June 22^nd, I will be giving a reading and talk with fellow poet and publisher Thom Eichelberger-Young, of Blue Bag Press. The event will occur online at 6pm EST and will be hosted by Rachel Lauren Myers (poet and editor of MEMEZINE) who pitched the event to me and Thom. We will be talking about imagination, state containment, countercultural publishing, and writing with urgency in the present. For more info, please see the flyer and sign up here.

More to come on the blog this summer, as I intend to do some poetry readings here—not just my own work, but other people’s poems as well. I’ve been getting a lot out of reading aloud alone lately, and I think it could make for good listening by others as well. We shall see.

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