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!
Saturday, December 29, 2012
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
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