LES FIGUES PRESS AUCTION

A printed, editioned, and signed screen-cap of my poem "Poem For Sitting in Panera" is being auctioned off as part of a benefit for Les Figues Press on October 7th in L.A. "Poem..." was curated by Colleen Grennan, who was curated by Jesse Benson in accordance with the auction's "Excess" theme.

Other News:

* I blogged about Da'Niro Elle Brown's artwork at Beautiful/Decay.
* Justin Clifford Rhody's Sliding Glass Door on Vice.
* Real Pain: Future Dead Friends Tour's video trailer, and Wes Flexner's Other Paper promo.
* The Todd Akin "cross-country" Our Bodies, Ourselves road trip.
* Steve Roggenbuck in the New York Times Magazine, who knew!
* Professional Alt Lit flatterer Peter BD's latest email is after the jump:

Roof Poem

A roof reading of "Eighteen to Thirty-One," a poem from my new chapbook The Best of All Possible Worlds. I did this reading on the last day of my writing residency at the Cyberpunk Apocalypse in Pittsburgh, PA.

Other News:

* Anne Elizabeth Moore and Gabrielle Gamboa posted an interview with Alison Bechdel that I helped transcribe at Truthout: Parts 1, 2, 3.
* The Cyberpunk Apocalypse promo-ed an end-of-residency reading I did with Tatyana Kagamas at the North Side Library in Pittsburgh, PA.
* Bad at Sports blurbed Samantha Rehark's show at ACRE.
* The C******* A**** blurbed the Hive Dwellers show at Skylab.
* The third issue of Pop Serial is up, and Alt-Lit officially has a Wikipedia page now.
* This 1996 article from the Onion about an OSU professor refers to a bong as a "sky lab."
* After the jump is an email poem Peterbd sent me re: me/Skrillex

Columbus Alive Notes My Pins

The Columbus Alive's Jackie Mantey blurbed regarding my pins in the Wexner Center for the Arts's store in a piece called "Shopping: Gift Shop Top Sellers." The pins were compared favorably to potato chips. If you would like pins that are similar in certain respects to a popular snack food, email here: james.payne.cc@gmail.com.

Other News:

* The Bitch blog mentioned Women's Comics Anthology in the context of Anne Elizabeth Moore's larger Ladydrawers project and its semimonthly Truthout column.
* Fantagraphics linked to a recording I took of a Paul Hornschemeier reading in its press round-up for Hornschemeier's All and Sundry: Uncollected Work 2004-2009.
* Jack Ramunni opened "HEAT SPACE" in his studio at CCAD. HEAT SPACE is "a year-long experiment" in the form of "an open project space where a variety of small events, group projects, experiments, lectures, and other creatively engaging activities will occur."
* Tavish is weirdly in this WNYC segment about Brion Gysin's Dream Machine. "Patterns. Moving." 
* Tatyana Kagamas unleashes Columbus Street Style.
* Download A.J.Fusco's mix for the 9/11 End Life rave here.
* Andrew Duncan Worthington is looking for a publication to carry his review of Austerity Pleasures.
* Bruce McClure is performing at Skylab Gallery on September 24th. The Columbus Alive blurbed it here.
* I don't know who or what Peterbd is but he/she/it sent me an email and it is after the jump.