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.

Yikes! Reunion Set At The Monster House

Download an MP3 of the set here.

"PUNK ZINE"

This is the 'zine I made two years ago. It's about Columbus, Ohio and some of the "punk" bands and artists that have called it home. There are eight interviews - Geoff Hing from Defiance, Ohio, Matt Reber from New Bomb Turks, Andy Hinton from Vile Gash, Phonzie Davis of Left Handed Sophie fame, Jason Molinari who lived at The Neil House, Anne Elizabeth Moore of the book "Unmarketable," John Malta of Rattail Flyers, and Jimmy Buttons who lives at The Legion of Doom. There are articles about The Evens, Bike Punks, the comic "Snakepit," Delay, Tin Armor, the CMA show "Renoir's Women," a janitor's strike at OSU, a successful Clinton-Era protest against bombing Iraq, a Griot memoir of Defiance, Ohio reminiscence, and a review of Magic Flowers Droned by Psychedelic Horseshit. There are reprints of a Lantern article about The Neil House, an Other Paper article about The Legion of Doom, an Entertainment Weekly article about "Columbus, the next Seattle," and something originally published in MRR about the Gaunt/New Bomb Turks scene.

If you want to buy a physical, paper copy Microcosm Publishing probably still has it.

Here are some reviews the zine received.