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3/30/2014

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Here's what's on my mind as April begins:

  • I've avoided writing a news post because I wanted to come up with a clever title for my regular news posts. I've not yet come up with anything.
  • My latest review on Hazel & Wren is about Jessica Piazza's Interrobang (Red Hen Press, 2013).
  • I'm going to start a Kickstarter in order to buy the Wu-Tang Clan's secret album The Wu – Once Upon a Time in Shaolin and release it for free.
  • I joined Instagram.
  • I'm moving to a beautiful new apartment in April. I'll have a sun room to lounge and work in, and a dedicated writing room/library. I mean, I guess it's an office, but "library" has more gravitas. Braggy pictures will be posted on Instagram (see above).

FORTHCOMING
I am happy to be one of the featured readers at The New Shit Show, a new, monthly night of new performances produced by Lewis Mundt and WordSprout. The New Shit Show is held on the 3rd Friday of every month at the Fox Egg Gallery (3730 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis). From Lewis: "'New shit'” is defined as work that’s not been presented to an audience before. The goal is to encourage creativity and experimentation in the Twin Cities, as well as to offer a show the audience has never seen before."
This is the inaugural event and I am honored to help kick this thing off! Here are the details:
  • Friday, April 18th
  • Doors at 7:30pm, a 4-slot open mic at 8pm (you could perform too!), and then the featured readers
  • $5-$10 on a sliding scale
  • There will be donation-based booze, so bring yr ID and some extra dollars.

Contest

Feb. 2011 Poetry backissues
A thing I am excited about is that April is National Poetry Month. I typically celebrate by writing  poem a day, but this year I decided to get a little more social (media) with it. The Poetry Foundation, publisher of one of my favorite literary magazines, Poetry magazine, offered to send up to 10 back issues to anyone who wanted them. I have 7 back issues of the February 2011 issue available and have been looking forward to playing the role of Poetry Fairy.

So here's the deal: from now until midnight on Tuesday, April 1st, comment on this blog post with your favorite line of poetry (or a whole poem!) and I'll write your name down on a slip of paper and draw names from a hat. Winners will receive one copy of Poetry magazine, and probably a little note from me. Make sure to put your email address in so I can contact you if you win! The drawing will take place on Wednesday evening, April 2nd; one entry per person.

(If you skipped ahead to the contest section you should go back to the top of this post and check out some of the other news. There's some cool stuff up there.)

3 Comments
Ian Commins
3/31/2014 12:08:51 am

Baby shoes for sale, never worn.

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Danny M
3/31/2014 07:55:34 am

I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep;

And there are no words for that.

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Harold Fisher link
2/16/2021 06:55:45 pm

Thanks, great post.

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    Timothy Otte

    is an art maker whose text has appeared in or is forthcoming from Denver Quarterly, LitHub, SAND Journal, the minnesota review, Sundog Lit, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Structo, and others. He was a 2014-15 Loft Mentor Series winner and is currently working on his first collection of poems. He is from and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he works at Coffee House Press. His tweets appear whenever. Say his last name like body.

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