Country Gentleperson

I will mail a free copy of

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to the first five people who email me.

There is a really great new issue of

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featuring poetry by

I also have a New City poem in this one.
Thank you, Curtis Purdue.

In other news, here is an inspiring interview with Peter Davis about weirdness.

Best New Poets 2011, edited by D.A. Powell

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50 Poems from Emerging Artists
Is available, and it's really a very good read.

I have a poem from Rambo Goes to Idaho
in this. Many thank yous, D.A. Powell, Jazzy Danzinger, and Jeb Livingood.

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HAS ARRIVED!

Featuring poems and prose from Ryan W. Bradley, Nick Sturm, Sean Lovelace, Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Rob MacDonald, Matty Byloos, Howie Good, Seth Oelbaum, and Gregory Sherl, as well as photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett (including the cover photo).

What Are You Stoked About?

A review of Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson (Reviewed by Ryan Rader)

An Interview with Nate Pritts (Interviewed by Joshua Helms)

I also have a poem in this one, and it's been a real pleasure to work with these folks.

Thank you, Tyler Gobble.

New Issue of

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InDigest

Issue #22 features, well, a ton of stuff.
They were kind enough to include one of my poems.

Thank you, Dustin Luke Nelson.

Adventures in Publishing, a panel chat

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Interesting panel discussion at R&D's new creative space in Honolulu. My two pals and I, novelist Tyler McMahon: How the Mistakes Were Made, and food writer Dabney Gough: Eat Good Food talked about the paths of our books to the bookshelf in our very different genres. Those two have very good books.

The audience seemed to mostly want to talk numbers, which was a bit surprising to me. I think (though I could be wrong) most of the audience weren't active in publishing, and, of all the possible directions the talk could have gone, the business aspect was what they decided to relate to the most.

If you're in Honolulu on Saturday, Nov. 19th,

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R&D:Ex Libris Presents:

Adventures in Publishing

A novelist, a cook and a poet share their different paths to the bookstore shelf

Saturday / Nov19 / 3:00pm / Free / 691 Auahi St

R&D presents a panel discussion with 3 authors who work in 3 very different disciplines. Each will speak about the challenges and triumphs of their distinct literary realms, and discuss the present and future of writing and publishing.

DABNEY GOUGH is a food writer and recipe developer whose work has appeared in HAWAII Magazine, the Honolulu Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Fine Cooking Magazine, among others. She is co-author of the newly released book Eat Good Food, as well as the forthcoming Sweet Cream & Sugar Cones, the highly anticipated cookbook from San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Creamery.

SCOTT ABELS has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boise State University. Rambo Goes to Idaho, just released by BlazeVOX [books], is his first book of poems. More of his poems can be found (or are forthcoming) with RealPoetik, Lungfull!, Forklift Ohio, DIAGRAM, Sink Review, H_NGM_N, Word for/Word, and others. He currently lives and teaches in Honolulu, where he edits the online journal of experimental poetry Country Music.

TYLER MCMAHON is author of the novel How the Mistakes Were Made (St. Martin’s 2011) and a professor at Hawai‘i Pacific University. His short work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Three Penny Review, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown. He co-edited the nonfiction anthologies Surfing’s Greatest Misadventures and Fishing’s Greatest Misadventures from Casagrande Press.