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Chad read me a poem by Stan Apps a few weeks ago, so I went out to find a copy of it and found a whole book! Grover Fuel! Free! At issuu.com! As usual, I have not read much of it yet, but the poem “Grover and the Book” is a fantastic ethical and political statement, totally blows me away.
I got Stan App’s book God’s Livestock Policy (Les Figues Press, 2008) the other week for my birthday, too. Calling his poetry deep and quirky doesn’t do it justice (I’m sorry, really! I’m in a rush!), but its close enough to describe my impression so far. Great stuff. Highly recommended.
I’m excited to announce that my chapbook, a light heart, its black thoughts, which is a year-long collaboration with the Gnoetry0.2 program, has been accepted for publication by Beard of Bees Press. It is a 17 page sonnet sequence which uses Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as its sole source text. It will soon be available on the Beard of Bees website as a free pdf download.
This marks my first publication in any medium aside from self-publication on blogs, which I don’t think counts for much. The chapbook is the first of five that I am currently completing for my master’s thesis. A few of those used the mchain program (it is by feeling is and selections from more perfect worlds and other poems), and one is a long conceptual poem that catalogues a Google News search. That makes more than half of my thesis computer-mediated in some way, and highly intertextual overall.
Check out the Beard of Bees publications for my new chapbook. I’d love to see any of your comments or critiques of it, so feel free to comment on this or my other blog. I’ve written about Gnoetry a few times at my machine poetics blog, I don’t want to be judged a human!, and also documented a little of the process of using it and other computer programs and methods there. It will doubtless expand as my thesis defense nears.
