Hello, let me help you freshen up. 

one murder leads to another

"Bye, bye" says the dead girl

"We are in your white bed full of light drinking white wine and it is dark. I balance the base of the glass on the side of my naked hip and look at the marble spa tub in the bathroom. There is a flushed gleam bouncing off the mirror, fainting exhaling ebbing back into the room and I ghost the smoke a reprise a remorse of sighing and feeling nothing but beam."

I AM ALIVE

(image from Zachary Cahill's Seance v. 11 at the MCA)

BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED from Tiny Hardcore Press

• My thoughts at PANK's blog, "We wanted to live but we had no choice."      
• A pick from Printer's Row Preview, Rounding up this year's summer reads" at the Chicago Tribune
•  A great time at the Book Fort at Pitchfork
•  BLACKEN ME is on the best of 2014 so far at Entropy Mag

And official release date October 14th from Artifice Books, KILL MANUAL

• Dennis Cooper really loves KILL MANUAL  

• An excerpt at FANZINE 

 

I was the summer poetry editor at Fanzine, which is now sadly over, but you can read all my selections here and it can still be summer forever at #cassandrapoetrysummer.

Also, I have a new chapbook at Solar Luxuriance called HATRED OF WOMEN.

Johannes Goransson and I performed at the MCA Chicago for Word Weekend with an original piece entitled "BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE"

UPCOMING READINGS:

10/3 at Pete's Candy Store; Brooklyn, NY

10/7 at Innertown Pub; Chicago, IL

10/16 at The Empty Bottle; Chicago, IL

10/29 KILL MANUAL book release at The Hideout; Chicago, IL

11/11 at Hungry Brain, The Dark Net 101; Chicago, IL

11/23 at A Room of One's Own bookstore; Madison, WI

UPCOMING READINGS!

THIS SUNDAY, 2/16:
The Marble Room Reading Series IX
with a reader profile here.

THURSDAY 2/20:
I'll be reading with Sam Pink and Justin Maurer
at Uncharted Books.

new words and work

(Photo by Zefrey Throwell, Reading at Unnameable Books, 2014)
  Here are some install images from the show in October with Ola Stahl at Krets in Malmö, Sweden. Thanks again to Anna Granqvist for all her hard work!

A poem up at Birds of Lace's finery, entitled SOLAR BLACK.

The recorded program from my session at Poet as Radio is up! They talk adolescence, form, reading behavior, and poetic inflection. Thanks for having my words, KUSF in Exile! And thank you to Harriet at The Poetry Foundation for hyping me.

I was also asked by the Block Museum at Northwestern "What Is Revolutionary Art Today"? for the current exhibition The Left Front: Radical Art in the "Red Decade," 1929-40.

The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929-1940 - See more at: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/current-exhibits/the-left-front.html#sthash.mCqAX6Yk.dpuf

The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929–1940  - See more at: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/current-exhibits/the-left-front.html#sthash.mCqAX6Yk.dpuf

The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929–1940  - See more at: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/current-exhibits/the-left-front.html#sthash.mCqAX6Yk.dpuf

The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929–1940  - See more at: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/current-exhibits/the-left-front.html#sthash.mCqAX6Yk.dpuf

NEW BOOK FROM TINY HARDCORE PRESS & MORE!

Coming soon from Tiny Hardcore Press, this April, "BLACKEN ME BLACKEN ME, GROWLED". More information forthcoming!

My brilliant brother and partner in crime, Cody Troyan, says, 

"It is a great book that really captures this sense of boiling urban sensuality contrasted with images of suburban youth and sentimentality, examining what the body is and what it means to guide one through life. It reads so sincerely, and even the more violent, sexual, or pop cultural parts feel essential, not just vogue, empty devices. A slice of an intensely interesting life--visceral, intelligent, often abstract but grounded in stark imagery and hellbent on discovery."

Beach sloth gives a review of the first issue of Reality Hands.

I wrote some words about my first lunch period brawl for "A Fight Between Friends," texts inspired by "The Laughter of Strangers" by Michael Seidlinger.  

I made a playlist of music and sounds inspired by, and to accompany THRONE OF BLOOD at Largehearted boy! THRONE OF BLOOD is in its second printing, and can be purchased at the SOLAR LUXURIANCE website. 

NEW WORDS!

Many thanks to Dennis Cooper, as THRONE OF BLOOD is on the best of 2013 so far list, recently at his blog.

A poem titled 800 in Issue 6 of Molly Brodak's experimental "aesthetix"

I'm STOKED about STOKED VOL. 5! A truly legit spread.     The print anthology of young North American poets, VOMIT, published by Spanish press El Gaviero Ediciones is now live! Thank you to the talented Luna Miguel for organizing the bilingual work, AND being my amazing translator!     I will be presenting and performing at the Hyde Park Arts Center on July 18th as part of BLONDE ART BOOKS'S Summer Tour!