Austerity Pleasures On Issuu

Other News:

* I featured FASTWURMS on Beautiful/Decay.
*Wes Flexner interviews Slave Labia, the Labia cover Beat Happening's "Indian Summer."
* Information regarding Aidan Koch's June 26th artist talk at the Wexner Center is up.
* Elijah Funk posted images from his senior thesis exhibition Unsadding.
* Jacky posted images of all the One-Hour Publications thus far.
* Tatyana Kagamas writes re: Lena Dunham's priv'. 

Bookstore Exhibition at Drift Station

Austerity Pleasures, the first two volumes of Jack Ramunni's One Hour Publications series, and the first issue of Slave Labia's zine will be available for free at Drift Station, a gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska, during its exhibition Bookstore, which opens March 2nd. 

Re: Bookstore: "For the duration of the exhibition, Drift Station will become a bookstore/reading library where the public can look through, peruse, and purchase artworks."

Other News:

* I featured AJ Fusco's artwork on Beautiful/Decay. 

* Elijah Funk redid his artist's site.

* A review of El Jesus de Magico's new album on Columbus Discount Records.

* The Max Caldwell and Mike Shouldis episode of Safe Passages is up.

* "We are all dreaming, and the dream is Chelsea Clinton." 

Street Speech Poem

Street Speech just published my poem "Some Answers to Certain Inexhaustible Anxieties" in its November 4th-17th issue under my curiously similar nom de plume "Jason Payne."

Street Speech carries great content regarding homelessness, economic inequality, mental illness, and other political issues facing the Columbus community. It's actually way better than the Columbus Alive, if you can believe that, and well worth supporting. 

Dan Tarnowski Reviews Austerity Pleasures

And that review can be read on Drawn Curtains.

Other News:

* Monster House Press signals that its next release (MHP 03) will be Ryan J. Eilbeck's classic children's story The Hugmonster Lives Under my Bed!.

* Lose the Tude's 7-inch reviewed on Thwart. 

* HEAT SPACE is collecting any and all artwork; drop it off at HEAT SPACE on CCAD's campus.

* Arty Party mentioned in this Time Out Chicago profile of Sara Drake's project in Cambodia.

Literary Chicago Reviews Austerity Pleasures

Mason Johnson reviewed my chapbook Austerity Pleasures at Literary Chicago.

Other News:

* I broke this episode of HEAT SPACE TV with Midori.
* John Malta publishes An Asteroid Descends on Mount Moldy.
* An "alternative" weekly covers Matt Schuermann's band American War.
* The Space of the Encounter, a show at DoVA Temporary co-curated by Cassandra Troyan and Zachary Cahill, is on view at DoVA Temporary in Chicago, Illinois. A review of the show at The Chicago Weekly.
* Bureau for Open Culture curator Jim Voorhies was interviewed by Bad at Sports.
* The Max Levine Ensemble has a new Bloomington-centric video for their song "Big Problems USA."
* Ginger Alford, Jake Alexander, and Alan Crenshaw started a new band called  Traveling.
* Toby Foster, Ryan Woods, and Nick Romy started a new band called High Dive. They have an album on No Idea Records.

New Buttons

Also, Hook and Line Magazine made mention of Austerity Pleasures.

Anobium #1 Available for Pre-Orders

ANOBIUM: VOLUME 1 is available for pre-orders. It's a Chicago-based publication instigated by Benjamin van Loon. Anobium contains two poems of mine along with writing by Rich Ives, Stephanie Plenner, Joe Meno and many more.

In other news:

* Jason Behrends reviews Austerity Pleasures on the Chicago Subtext blog.
* I have some poems forthcoming on My Name is Mud.
* I am reading poems at Kafe Kerouac in Columbus, Ohio, on July 16th with Philip Kim and Jason Dutton.
* The Boy Who Could Fly on If You Make It. Gush.
* Frank Hinton pens an ode to Cassandra Troyan.
* Pop Serial #2 is online now.
* John Also Bennett responds to Osama bin Laden's death.
* Word Wild Records released a split 10-inch by Snarlas and Pink Houses.
* Download DJ Power Smoke's set from E-Hole.
* Download Tin Armor's Life of Abundance here and their tribute to The Modern Lovers here.
* A video of Lightning Yin Yang playing the Monster House.
* Dina Sherman's show Nothing is Very Complicated just opened at the OSU Urban Arts Space.
* Berea Fest is happening on July 16th in Berea, Ohio.
* Alexis Bhagat is delivering a lecture entitled 'The Cinema as a Concert Hall for the 21st Century' on July 14th at Skylab.
* Help the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* Help Spooktober release their 10-inch album.

Panacea Palace Poem

Alma Vescovi illustrated a poem from my chapbook Austerity Pleasures, 'Selected Contents of the Dumpster,' and published it at Panacea Palace. Go look, it is lovely.

Short Poem at Haggard and Halloo

My poem 'Practical Mathematics' was just published by the Austin-based online literary journal Haggard and Halloo. It's also collected in Austerity Pleasures, which Monster House Press just posted a pre-release promo for.

Austerity Pleasures Audio Recording

A recording of Austerity Pleasures being read in its totality. It's a bit chirpy, and best listened to at moderate volumes. You may download the recording as a MP3 here. 

Poem at Haggard & Halloo

Haggard & Halloo, an Austin-based literary website and journal, recently published my poem '666etwood Mac.' The poem will be included in my upcoming collection on Monster House Press, Austerity Pleasures.

See below for a dummy of the Austerity Pleasures wraparound cover.

Preview Of My Upcoming Chapbook, "Us out of North America and/or Austerity Pleasures."

   A UST ERIT YPLEAS IRS

AUSTERITY PLEASURES 

A USTERITY PLAISI RS 

Or download.

Also, a review of Assuming Size at The Cold Cup Cafe.

Aarthi unilaterally published a desperate Facebook conversation.

Aarthi unilaterally published a Facebook playlet recounting my self-worth's skirmish with the Canadian border guard.

At Pop Serial Stephen Tully Dierks reads poems from Assuming Size.

Arty Party is back in stock at Quimby's in Chicago, IL. Assuming Size is also for sale at Quimby's but not through its online store.

Ryan Starinsky and I have a playlet entitled Louis Riel, Do You Know How I Feel? in Ozone Park Journal's next issue. Who wants to stage the first production?