The Owlery Show

A sliver of s'me.

I have a number (24) of prints and drawings showing this month at The Owlery in Bloomington, Indiana. The Owlery is a new restaurant instigated by Ryan Woods and Toby Foster. It pays half of Bloomington to feed the other half vegetarian/vegan nibbles. May I recommend the "fish" and chips, the beer, and the nachos even. 

There was a faux-opening/poetry reading the night of April 30th featuring Ryan J., Matthew Whispers, Richard Wehrenberg Jr., myself, and the wonderful poetry of Bloomington's Tara J. Below are recordings of the readings, and after the jump are photos of the art installation. All of the work is for sale, at prices between fifteen and fifty dollars. I believe the show stays up until June 1st. Upcoming shows at The Owlery feature the artwork of Erin Tobey and Nate Powell - exciting.

You can visit The Owlery at its perch - 212 S. Rogers St. Bloomington, Indiana, 47404. 

The playlist is:

1. James Payne
2. Matt Whispers
3. Richard Wehrenberg Jr. part two
4. Richard Wehrenberg Jr. part one
5. Ryan J.
6. Tara J.

Scroll through to access all of the tracks or download.

Poem In September's Short North Gazette

The Short North Gazette recently published an excerpt of my poem, Recollections Of How I Smelled On I-90, which is really quite a long poem as I tend to smell like many things. It has some local interest as its content.

I'm fond of the Short North Gazette for reasons outside of their publishing my poem. I like the James Thurber coverage, I like the odd gag cartoons, the poetry, the magazine-length articles on Columbus history, and, most of all, I like the semi-recent addition of Jared Gardner to their stable of columnists. Gardner is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio State and heads the pop-culture minor there. (He also writes for The Comics Journal.) He was not only my Personalized Study Program advisor but also the advisor for the independent study project that "Punk Zine" came out of. So I'm doubly happy to see my poem published across from his moving eulogy of Harvey Pekar, who I first saw IRL at The Mershon Auditorium during a discussion that Gardner moderated.

The Gazette is free and available seemingly anywhere in The Short North.

Monster House 5/9/10

Stream of Pink Houses' and Slugging Percentage's sets. First is Pink Houses then click through for Slugging Percentage.

Or Download:
Pink Houses: mp3
Slugging Percentage: mp3