I review “The Oregon Trail IS the Oregon Trail” by Gregory Sherl @ The Rumpus

“Like the Willamette Valley I inherited, the promised west in TOTITOT is an amalgam of bootstrap romance, wilderness bordered by suburban sprawl, death, and the ferocity of natural processes.”

 

http://therumpus.net/2012/04/a-brilliant-button-without-any-cloth/

Odes for Gerald Wallace @ Portland Monthly

Lisa Wells, Bryan Coffelt, and James Gendron pay tribute to Crash:

 

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/category/sporting-events/articles/poets-tribute-gerald-wallace-april-2012/

Reading poems I love @ Bitch Magazine

“April is known for a lot of things: Easter, spring, the name of the reporter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… but, did you know that April is also National Poetry Month? “

BiblioBitch: Five Righteous Books of Poetry that Changed My Life

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/bibliobitch-five-books-of-poetry-that-changed-my-life-feminism-national-poetry-month

I Review Wagoner @ The Rumpus

“At its best, After the Point of No Return gives us just what we hope to find: poems that wrestle with mortality, retrace the steps of a life, and take us past the limit of flesh into whatever comes next.”

 

http://therumpus.net/2012/03/an-inverted-world-of-trees-and-trembling-sky/

SLEEP Series

SLEEP 1

I’ll be reading for the SLEEP Series at Little Axe Records in Portland Oregon on April 19th, 7:30pm.

With

Parker Tettleton

&

Valentine Freeman

http://sleepseries.tumblr.com/