Come celebrate Uno Kudo's Volume 2: Naked
Sat Feb 2nd 8PM
Helnwein Studio
901 E 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90013
MORE INFORMATION TO COME
http://unokudo.blogspot.com/
Uno Kudo is a literary and arts publication that features significant new words and art from a diverse array of contributors, presented in expressive and luscious layouts. The theme for this volume is "Naked" and includes work from over 50 writers and artists from around the globe.
https://www.facebook.com/events/487498687949373/
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Uno Kudo - a modern day art collective
from the Uno Kudo website...
Dear Human,
There wasn’t a doubt: there would be an Uno Kudo Vol. 2. The first book was a best seller on the anthology list and raised a nice amount of money for a worthy charity. But following the first book, a strange thing happened. The writers and artists who were included began to talk. They picked up telephones and said, “Oh hi, hello—so strange that we’ve never hung out before.” They bounced emails back and forth—“Wanna help me drink this vat of Pinot Noir?” Parties sprung up. Snail mail popped into mailboxes: birthday cards, odd little handwritten notes. These people had all fallen in love with each other. They started talking. Collaborating. Plotting. Devising. They took vacations together. It was baffling. This kinda' thing wasn’t supposed to happen anymore.
An art collective. A modern day art collective.
Really?
Yup. It spans the U.S.A. and it’s spreading … inching out daily. Like the Blob … Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Boulder, Brooklyn, Upstate New York, Chicago … that Johnny Cash song, I’ve been everywhere man … Sure! Sea to shining sea. Europe too. Pins on the map in Japan, South America, anywhere there’s a somebody leaving a light on. We’d like to come to your town—absorb you just like the Blob did. We’re friendly though. We’ll slather you in neon DayGlo paint and ... well, lots of things will happen.
There’s a place for you here in Uno Kudo. Read. Look. Write. Create. Speak. Buy me a drink. I’ll buy you a drink. We’ll get naked and things will glow with an impossible hum—reverberating with a tinge of welcome danger.
Love,
The Editors
http://unokudo.blogspot.com/
Dear Human,
There wasn’t a doubt: there would be an Uno Kudo Vol. 2. The first book was a best seller on the anthology list and raised a nice amount of money for a worthy charity. But following the first book, a strange thing happened. The writers and artists who were included began to talk. They picked up telephones and said, “Oh hi, hello—so strange that we’ve never hung out before.” They bounced emails back and forth—“Wanna help me drink this vat of Pinot Noir?” Parties sprung up. Snail mail popped into mailboxes: birthday cards, odd little handwritten notes. These people had all fallen in love with each other. They started talking. Collaborating. Plotting. Devising. They took vacations together. It was baffling. This kinda' thing wasn’t supposed to happen anymore.
An art collective. A modern day art collective.
Really?
Yup. It spans the U.S.A. and it’s spreading … inching out daily. Like the Blob … Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Boulder, Brooklyn, Upstate New York, Chicago … that Johnny Cash song, I’ve been everywhere man … Sure! Sea to shining sea. Europe too. Pins on the map in Japan, South America, anywhere there’s a somebody leaving a light on. We’d like to come to your town—absorb you just like the Blob did. We’re friendly though. We’ll slather you in neon DayGlo paint and ... well, lots of things will happen.
There’s a place for you here in Uno Kudo. Read. Look. Write. Create. Speak. Buy me a drink. I’ll buy you a drink. We’ll get naked and things will glow with an impossible hum—reverberating with a tinge of welcome danger.
Love,
The Editors
http://unokudo.blogspot.com/
Saturday, December 29, 2012
New Issue of Trailer Park Quarterly
Trailer Park Quarterly v3
Contributors: T.A. Noonan, Scott Fynboe, Gary Charles Wilkens, William Taylor Jr., April M. Bratten, Amy Schreibman Walter, Sarah Carson, Alan Catlin, Dennis Mahagin, Steve Henn, Aleathia Drehmer, Eric Boyd James R. Tomlinson
http://www.sundresspublications.com/
Contributors: T.A. Noonan, Scott Fynboe, Gary Charles Wilkens, William Taylor Jr., April M. Bratten, Amy Schreibman Walter, Sarah Carson, Alan Catlin, Dennis Mahagin, Steve Henn, Aleathia Drehmer, Eric Boyd James R. Tomlinson
http://www.sundresspublications.com/
In the year 2012
Now Playing @ Citizens for Decent Literature began publishing poetry, short stories, essays and rants on January 1, 2012 every third day. In August 2012 the publishing schedule switched to monthly issues with the first issue on August 15th.
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/
Contributors
Afzal Moolla, Alan Britt, Aleksandr Smechov, Alex Nodopaka, Ally Malinenko, Andrew Rihn, Anneliese Mackintosh, Anthony Langford, Bari L. Kennedy, Bill Gainer, Bradley Mason Hamlin, Brenton Booth, Brian Fugett, Bud Smith, Carl Miller Daniels, Catfish McDaris, changming yuan, Charlie Skinner, Colin Dodds, Connor Syrewicz, Corey Mesler, Dan Provost, David Blaine, David Pointer, DB Cox, Dennis Mahagin, Diana May-Waldman, Euginia Tan, Frank Walsh, Frankie Metro, Fred Russell, Gene Fehler, George Korolog, Gerald Yelle, J. Claudius Cloyd, James Babbs, James D Quinton, James H Duncan, Jason Hardung, Jason Ryberg, Jessica Gleason, Joe Eldridge, Joe Marchia, John Grey, John Grochalski, John Sweet, John Tustin, Josh Olsen, Juan Pedro Lamata, Julia Coleman, Karley de la Filth, Kate Bond, Keith Landrum, Kevin Ridgeway, Kyle Hemmings, Louie Crew, Luis Rivas, Mark Wisniewski, Matthew Pasquarello, Matthew Sradeja, Michael Currier, Michael Grover, Mike Boyle, misti rainwater-lites, Mort Todd, Nick Gerrard, Nicole Yurcaba, Pantifesto, Patrick Vincent Welsh, Paul Corman-Roberts, Paul Levy, Philip Vermaas, Quasimofo Snyder, RC Edrington, Richard Joseph Cronborg, Rob Pierce, Robert Gross, Ross Vassilev, Shali Nicholas, Shawn Misener, Steve Young, Teri Kelly, Thomas Kearnes, tim murray, Tom Bradley, Trisha Winn, Walter Beck, Wanda Morrow Clevenger, Wayne Mason, William Doreski, William Taylor Jr.
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/
Contributors
Afzal Moolla, Alan Britt, Aleksandr Smechov, Alex Nodopaka, Ally Malinenko, Andrew Rihn, Anneliese Mackintosh, Anthony Langford, Bari L. Kennedy, Bill Gainer, Bradley Mason Hamlin, Brenton Booth, Brian Fugett, Bud Smith, Carl Miller Daniels, Catfish McDaris, changming yuan, Charlie Skinner, Colin Dodds, Connor Syrewicz, Corey Mesler, Dan Provost, David Blaine, David Pointer, DB Cox, Dennis Mahagin, Diana May-Waldman, Euginia Tan, Frank Walsh, Frankie Metro, Fred Russell, Gene Fehler, George Korolog, Gerald Yelle, J. Claudius Cloyd, James Babbs, James D Quinton, James H Duncan, Jason Hardung, Jason Ryberg, Jessica Gleason, Joe Eldridge, Joe Marchia, John Grey, John Grochalski, John Sweet, John Tustin, Josh Olsen, Juan Pedro Lamata, Julia Coleman, Karley de la Filth, Kate Bond, Keith Landrum, Kevin Ridgeway, Kyle Hemmings, Louie Crew, Luis Rivas, Mark Wisniewski, Matthew Pasquarello, Matthew Sradeja, Michael Currier, Michael Grover, Mike Boyle, misti rainwater-lites, Mort Todd, Nick Gerrard, Nicole Yurcaba, Pantifesto, Patrick Vincent Welsh, Paul Corman-Roberts, Paul Levy, Philip Vermaas, Quasimofo Snyder, RC Edrington, Richard Joseph Cronborg, Rob Pierce, Robert Gross, Ross Vassilev, Shali Nicholas, Shawn Misener, Steve Young, Teri Kelly, Thomas Kearnes, tim murray, Tom Bradley, Trisha Winn, Walter Beck, Wanda Morrow Clevenger, Wayne Mason, William Doreski, William Taylor Jr.
In the year 2012
poets rocked out to these guys
Three Times Bad on Facebook
Good Green on Facebook
Good Green @ Mothpocalypse, Albuquerque, New Mexico. November 4, 2012
Three Times Bad on Facebook
Good Green on Facebook
Good Green @ Mothpocalypse, Albuquerque, New Mexico. November 4, 2012
In the year 2012
fun with flyers and broadsides
The Prose Pimp & The Happy Hamsterer
"This is the Damn Poem" by Brian Fugett (print on ivory card stock)
"Nothing to Lose" by Michele McDannold (print on 8.5 x 14)
"An Inappropriate Query" by Pantifesto (looks great on bright blue 24lb paper)
"Love" by Bud Smith
"i dream of tongues" by Richard Vargas (print on red card stock, cut to 3.5 inches wide each)
Flyer for Albuquerque, New Mexico Events 2012
Happy Fuckin' Endings Handbill
Mothpocalypse Handbill
Tinyamp VS The Literary Underground
Midwest Underground Poetry Summit
The Prose Pimp & The Happy Hamsterer
"This is the Damn Poem" by Brian Fugett (print on ivory card stock)
"Nothing to Lose" by Michele McDannold (print on 8.5 x 14)
"An Inappropriate Query" by Pantifesto (looks great on bright blue 24lb paper)
"Love" by Bud Smith
"i dream of tongues" by Richard Vargas (print on red card stock, cut to 3.5 inches wide each)
Flyer for Albuquerque, New Mexico Events 2012
Happy Fuckin' Endings Handbill
Mothpocalypse Handbill
Tinyamp VS The Literary Underground
Midwest Underground Poetry Summit
In the year 2012
TRAVELS
Feb. chicago zyfez alliance gathering chili cook off and raffle.
Nevermind how much it cost.
This is where it began... the demise of papa smurf
April. Graveside in downstate illinois. Miss you FN.
June. Street, Meat and Beat Poetry during the Midwest Small Press Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
frankie, lindsey, tim murray, grover stayed in some air force dude's house for $5 a night.
we went to piggly wiggly and had taco salad
there was book folding but no bone folders
catfish mcdaris was at the book fair/read
I think it was $25 for the table
met Jason Behrends of Orange Alert and Jaffe of Strange Cage
the record store, the record store, the record store
that guy is goin to jail
Labor Day Weekend. ypsilanti/haunted tour/zygote central
hey it's josh olsen – is he wearing capris?
Gave away lots more flyers and stuff-- grover, christina brooks, craig firsdon, matt sradeja
karla marie williams – awesome read
met leo todd jarrett. Nice guy, good crowd
this is murray's bar. That is grover singing a duet w/ fugett. There might have been taylor swifting and a PSA.
Hella worth the drive
July. Beast Crawl & Zyfez 2. Oakland/San Francisco
it's all a matter of record now.
New parish that dicked us over cost $250
the compound, the drama, the corner liquor store and who can forget the white sauce
City Lights. Run for the BART San Francisco. Oh shit, we left...
November. Happy Endings & Mothpocalypse. Albuquerque, New Mexico
did that actually happen?
Gas masks, pigeon pit, groilers or something like that. Cholo on the front porch... playing cards with bullet holes, no shit. Belly dancers and you shoulda drank more water.
Harwood $80 disturbing the peaceful residents with good green music and basketball dunking contests
Box $200
Feb. chicago zyfez alliance gathering chili cook off and raffle.
Nevermind how much it cost.
This is where it began... the demise of papa smurf
April. Graveside in downstate illinois. Miss you FN.
June. Street, Meat and Beat Poetry during the Midwest Small Press Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
frankie, lindsey, tim murray, grover stayed in some air force dude's house for $5 a night.
we went to piggly wiggly and had taco salad
there was book folding but no bone folders
catfish mcdaris was at the book fair/read
I think it was $25 for the table
met Jason Behrends of Orange Alert and Jaffe of Strange Cage
the record store, the record store, the record store
that guy is goin to jail
Labor Day Weekend. ypsilanti/haunted tour/zygote central
hey it's josh olsen – is he wearing capris?
Gave away lots more flyers and stuff-- grover, christina brooks, craig firsdon, matt sradeja
karla marie williams – awesome read
met leo todd jarrett. Nice guy, good crowd
this is murray's bar. That is grover singing a duet w/ fugett. There might have been taylor swifting and a PSA.
Hella worth the drive
July. Beast Crawl & Zyfez 2. Oakland/San Francisco
it's all a matter of record now.
New parish that dicked us over cost $250
the compound, the drama, the corner liquor store and who can forget the white sauce
City Lights. Run for the BART San Francisco. Oh shit, we left...
November. Happy Endings & Mothpocalypse. Albuquerque, New Mexico
did that actually happen?
Gas masks, pigeon pit, groilers or something like that. Cholo on the front porch... playing cards with bullet holes, no shit. Belly dancers and you shoulda drank more water.
Harwood $80 disturbing the peaceful residents with good green music and basketball dunking contests
Box $200
In the year 2012
in the interest of transparency...
DONATIONS AND CHAPBOOK SALES
$1632.38
these motherfuckers are funding the revolution
gold frickin star level – over $300
Victor Schwartzman, Brian Fugett
bronze statue level - $100+
James Babbs
when you stick 5 bucks in an envelope or paypal a quarter of a hundred... it helps
round of applause, goddammit level – $5 or more
J. Claudius Cloyd, RC Edrington, John Swain, Nathan Moore, Lynn Alexander, Frank Reardon, Frankie Metro, Clay Phillips, Carl Miller Daniels, Catfish McDaris
doesn't want to know how fast she's going broke
idiot level - ???
Michele McDannold
let's also not forget all those people that traveled to the events on their own dime. believe it or not, all poets will NOT do this. in all honesty, if we had that kind of money- those guys aren't the ones we'd be paying. so for the broke-ass motherfuckers who make it happen, somehow, you guys rock...
EXPENSES
here's the thing about me and receipts. From the time I started this list to the time I finished, I found a pile of receipts under some other stuff on my desk of stuff and lots of other stuff. Dig? Looks like I started keeping them around the month of may.
Here's what I had on hand anyway--
blogtalk
468
usps
186.37
ink
137.26
web hosting/registrations
136.28
paper, tape and shit
80.89
venues/tables
75 (just what LU paid)
480 (Fugett paid)
ads, music, other fees
59.95
other stuff.. bought a toner printer, sent some adopt-a-poet money out, gave away a bunch of free lit, mailed out a shit ton of mailers.
if i forgot someone or something, i'm sorry. it's a lot to keep track of.
luvluvluv
and MANY THANKS!
DONATIONS AND CHAPBOOK SALES
$1632.38
these motherfuckers are funding the revolution
gold frickin star level – over $300
Victor Schwartzman, Brian Fugett
bronze statue level - $100+
James Babbs
when you stick 5 bucks in an envelope or paypal a quarter of a hundred... it helps
round of applause, goddammit level – $5 or more
J. Claudius Cloyd, RC Edrington, John Swain, Nathan Moore, Lynn Alexander, Frank Reardon, Frankie Metro, Clay Phillips, Carl Miller Daniels, Catfish McDaris
doesn't want to know how fast she's going broke
idiot level - ???
Michele McDannold
let's also not forget all those people that traveled to the events on their own dime. believe it or not, all poets will NOT do this. in all honesty, if we had that kind of money- those guys aren't the ones we'd be paying. so for the broke-ass motherfuckers who make it happen, somehow, you guys rock...
EXPENSES
here's the thing about me and receipts. From the time I started this list to the time I finished, I found a pile of receipts under some other stuff on my desk of stuff and lots of other stuff. Dig? Looks like I started keeping them around the month of may.
Here's what I had on hand anyway--
blogtalk
468
usps
186.37
ink
137.26
web hosting/registrations
136.28
paper, tape and shit
80.89
venues/tables
75 (just what LU paid)
480 (Fugett paid)
ads, music, other fees
59.95
other stuff.. bought a toner printer, sent some adopt-a-poet money out, gave away a bunch of free lit, mailed out a shit ton of mailers.
if i forgot someone or something, i'm sorry. it's a lot to keep track of.
luvluvluv
and MANY THANKS!
In the year 2012
this episode of wednesday night service was our most listened to show of 2012. it has been accessed over 1100 times. very cool reading by Tom Bradley from his novel Killing Bryce. check it out... http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground/2012/10/24/wednesday-night-service-born-bad
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
New Book by Frank Reardon from NeoPoiesis Press
Nirvana Haymaker
ISBN 978-0-9855577-7-5
180 pages
$16.95
5.5"x8.5" perfect bound, paper
Buy it at the publisher NeoPoiesisPress.com,Amazon.com,
Barnes & noble.com (pretty soon) & other book sellers
they make great New Years gifts, Christmas gifts,
or just plain old gifts.PICK ONE UP,we are a hungry bunch!
Here are what others are saying about the book:
"Read Frank Reardon at your own risk. He'll open your heart with a corkscrew and leave you wide-eyed and longing for more...these are goddamed excellent poems."
- Dan Fante, author of Chump Change, Kissed By a Fat Waitress and Mooch
"If you have any feelings left then the poems in The Nirvana Haymaker will disturb you. Not because there's something wrong with them but because what of they reveal about Mr. Reardon's depth of personal examination. There are precious few who are writing with such honesty these days."
- RD Armstrong, editor & founder of Lummox Press
"Frank's poems are honest and moving documents from one human to any other with the ear and heart to receive them. They do much to remind me it is important to try and be truly alive in this, our time upon the earth."
-William Taylor Jr., author of An Age of Monsters
"You're sitting in a dark room, alone, washing down Valium with coffee, wishing you could see the stars through the dirty window; instead, you see a reflection of yourself, the lines on your face heavier, the life in your eyes drained. You hope for something better: a better girl, a better place, a better you. Cigarette smoke cuts the bitterness for a second. You squint, through the haze, trying so hard to see something in yourself. The heater brightens the room when you take a drag. There's nothing left. May as well write about it and hope to hell someone comes along to share your coffee and your life, making those damn lines mean something more than just empty scars."
- R L Raymond, editor, Pigeon Bike Press
"Frank Reardon presents the self, suspended, stepping away from moments to observe their context, attentive to unusual details, emerging changed in the face of them. He remains the poet in the “pause” of his earlier collection, Interstate Chokehold, but readers will find that his world has changed: his influences more accessible, his connection inextricable, less transcendent.
His is now a quieter agitation- a processing, toward more stable ground. The Nirvana Haymaker reveals an evolving poetic, candid and confessional as before, but tapping into new psychic territories where his imagination is given a more confident liberty."
- Lynn Alexander, editor, Full of Crow Press
Frank Reardon's poetry is high-voltage! It's like when my brother stuck a screwdriver in an outlet to see what it would do and it did. Reardon's words change who you are and your perception of the world as you know it forever. Get ready!
- Meg Tuite, fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Reading to celebrate launch of Cosmos: An Anthology of Southern California Poetry
Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 12:30 p.m.
BEYOND BAROQUE
681 VENICE BLVD., VENICE
Scheduled to read are Ricki Mandeville, Marsha Getzler, Pegarty Long, RD Armstrong and S.A. Griffin
A new collection featuring the work of Erica Erdman, francEye, Donna Gebron, Philomene Long, Misty Mallory, Akilah Oliver, Tony Scibella, John Thomas, Scott Wannberg, F.N. Wright
"The following pages feature the work of ten remarkable Southern California poets who passed on in the last decade and a half. In their lifetimes, they were essential members of the poetry scene, and that scene continues now without them, as it will, ultimately, without each of us. For those who knew them, they have left memories; for friends and newcomers alike, they have left remarkable bodies of work. 'Good friends we've had / oh, good friends we've lost along the way,' Bob Marley once sang. The following pages celebrate some of those friends." --Michael Miller.
http://www.moontidepress.com/our-books/cosmos/cosmos/
COSMOS FLIER
BEYOND BAROQUE
681 VENICE BLVD., VENICE
Scheduled to read are Ricki Mandeville, Marsha Getzler, Pegarty Long, RD Armstrong and S.A. Griffin
A new collection featuring the work of Erica Erdman, francEye, Donna Gebron, Philomene Long, Misty Mallory, Akilah Oliver, Tony Scibella, John Thomas, Scott Wannberg, F.N. Wright
"The following pages feature the work of ten remarkable Southern California poets who passed on in the last decade and a half. In their lifetimes, they were essential members of the poetry scene, and that scene continues now without them, as it will, ultimately, without each of us. For those who knew them, they have left memories; for friends and newcomers alike, they have left remarkable bodies of work. 'Good friends we've had / oh, good friends we've lost along the way,' Bob Marley once sang. The following pages celebrate some of those friends." --Michael Miller.
http://www.moontidepress.com/our-books/cosmos/cosmos/
COSMOS FLIER
Monday, December 17, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
CFDL Micro Award Nominations
Citizens For Decent Literature is proud to announce its nominations for the Micro Award. The Micro Award is a literary prize presented annually for fiction not exceeding 1000 words. The winner and finalists will be announced on the Micro Award website (http://www.microaward.org/) on Mar. 17, 2013. The author of the winning story shall receive $500 US.
"The Trapdoor Spider In The Alley" by Luis Rivas
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/2012/09/rivas-4/
"Unshaved" by Josh Olsen
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/2012/09/olsen-3/
Citizens for Decent Literature Press was founded in 2011 as a project of The Literary Underground. Published online monthly and in print quarterly, CFDL seeks to give voice to the voiceless and shit like that. http://citizensfordecentliterature.com
"The Trapdoor Spider In The Alley" by Luis Rivas
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/2012/09/rivas-4/
"Unshaved" by Josh Olsen
http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/2012/09/olsen-3/
Citizens for Decent Literature Press was founded in 2011 as a project of The Literary Underground. Published online monthly and in print quarterly, CFDL seeks to give voice to the voiceless and shit like that. http://citizensfordecentliterature.com
Sunday, December 2, 2012
New Anthology from Moon Tide Press
Cosmos: An Anthology of
Southern California Poetry
"The following pages feature the work of ten remarkable Southern California poets who passed on in the last decade and a half. In their lifetimes, they were essential members of the poetry scene, and that scene continues now without them, as it will, ultimately, without each of us. For those who knew them, they have left memories; for friends and newcomers alike, they have left remarkable bodies of work. 'Good friends we've had / oh, good friends we've lost along the way,' Bob Marley once sang. The following pages celebrate some of those friends."
— Michael Miller
Erica Erdman
francEyE
Donna Gebron
Philomene Long
Misty Mallory
Akilah Oliver
Tony Scibella
John Thomas
Scott Wannberg
F.N. Wright
Editor: Michael Miller
Please visit http://www.moontidepress.com/our-books/cosmos/cosmos/ for more information or to purchase.
Southern California Poetry
"The following pages feature the work of ten remarkable Southern California poets who passed on in the last decade and a half. In their lifetimes, they were essential members of the poetry scene, and that scene continues now without them, as it will, ultimately, without each of us. For those who knew them, they have left memories; for friends and newcomers alike, they have left remarkable bodies of work. 'Good friends we've had / oh, good friends we've lost along the way,' Bob Marley once sang. The following pages celebrate some of those friends."
— Michael Miller
Erica Erdman
francEyE
Donna Gebron
Philomene Long
Misty Mallory
Akilah Oliver
Tony Scibella
John Thomas
Scott Wannberg
F.N. Wright
Editor: Michael Miller
Please visit http://www.moontidepress.com/our-books/cosmos/cosmos/ for more information or to purchase.
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