Interview with Black Heart Magazine

I've been interviewed by Laura Roberts from Black Heart Magazine, based out of Austin, Texas.

I talk about my role as poetry editor for pax americana and how to make an editor steaming mad.

Please check out the interview here.

Thank you, Laura.

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Monday Roundup of Stuff

1) Issue 2 of Branch Magazine (run by the very talented duo, Gillian Sze and Roberutsu) is now online. Please check it out here.

If you haven't read it yet, please check out my poem "My Beloved" from the inaugural issue of Branch here.

2) Speaking of Gillian Sze, she has been named one of the "Top Five Emerging Writers Under 40" by the Austin, Texas based, Black Heart Magazine. Congrats, Gillian!

3) Ben Mirov is interviewed by Luke Degnan and reads ten poems from Ghost Machine for BOMB Magazine's Phoned-In series here.

4) Ben has kindly posted some poems that never made the final cut for Ghost Machine on his blog.

5) David Lehman wrote a poem ("The Road to Help") which consisted mostly of lines lifted from other sources but with letters changed in each lifted line, coming up with verses like "A thong of beauty is a joy forever." I came up with "I saw the best rinds of my generation destroyed by badness." (Thank you, Ginsberg.) Can you take up Lehman's challenge and write your own?

Ok,

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Black Heart Magazine and DailyHaiku.org present the Dirty Haiku Contest

Black Heart, in conjunction with DailyHaiku.org are holding a Haiku contest. Mike Gravel and Black Heart staffers will be judging your entries. There is no entry fee and you win publication in their February 2007 print edition and Black Heart merchandise galore.

Send your entries in the body of your e-mail with the subject line "DIRTY HAIKU CONTEST SUBMISSION" to contest@blackheartmagazine.com.

Include your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

Entries must be in semi-traditional haiku format (5-7-5 syllables, or a max of 17 syllables total) and should focus on themes of a sexual or sensual nature. They do not have to be explicit though they must be original and previously unpublished.

For more details go here.

Black Heart Lipogram

Christian Bok gained noteriety for his five-year labour of love, Eunoia, a lipogram that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters. Even though it is an experimental work, it went onto become a huge bestseller in Canada.

This week's weekly update from Black Heart Magazine, Never Trust a Brother, is a lipogram where the letter I has been removed--no easy task when writing in the first person!

Enjoy Never Trust a Brother.