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.

Janey Smith talks about his relationship with Kathy Acker, and wants to fuck a lot of people, (including me).

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!  

 

CLEAR THE THRONE

FUCK POEMS WITH BIRDS I'M THE ONE WHO GETS TO FLY COLLECT YR NEGOTIATED FREEDOM TODAY

MINI TOUR:

Quimby's: Chicago, IL 2/19 at 7PM

The Secret Alley: San Francisco, CA 3/2 at 8PM

851 The Squat: San Francisco, CA 3/3 at 8PM

AWP Literature Party: Boston, MA 3/8 at 10PM

FLOOD: SXSW in Austin, TX 3/15 at 8PM
Mellow Pages Library: Bushwick, NY 3/21 at 7PM

LOVE AND REVIEWS FOR THRONE OF BLOOD AT
HTMLgiant, number 1 by Shaun Gannon and number 2 by Leif Haven
Wyatt Sparks at Banango Lit, David Peak on Goodreads,
Dennis Cooper's "The Weaklings", bett's blog
Mine for yours: My mid-2013 favorites of the year at Dennis Cooper's blog

VIBE IT ON GOODREADS

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:
SOLAR LUXURIANCE
Uncharted Books: Chicago, IL
Press Works On Paper: San Francisco, CA
The Wexner Center Store: Columbus, OH
Farewell Books: Austin, TX

THE NEXT "BIG THING": THRONE OF BLOOD

Hi everyone! David Peak, the author of Glowing in the Dark asked me to follow him in this chain letter tagalong blog post because if I don't I think your hair falls out or no one will every love you again. Here's the the rundown: It's a blog series in which the tagged author answers 10 questions and then tags another / other authors who will then do the same thing. There are a lot of writers participating in this series. For a place to start check out: Michael J Seidlinger's post here or Jamie Iredell's post here, and let's not forget Robert Kloss OR Ben Spivey OR Nick Antosca OR Christopher Bundy. (If I forgot someone, apologies!)

1) What is the title of your latest book? 

THRONE OF BLOOD & goodreads 
BUY FROM SOLAR LUXURIANCE HERE

2) Where did the idea come from for the book? 

Desperation and some sort of thick hung illness. Sick blood stuck in the heart, head, and gut that gets gummed up and squeezed through generations. 

3) What genre does your book fall under? 

An aggregate of: Erotic cannabilism. Psychosexual thriller. Suicide awareness pamphlets. Infomercials. Snuff films.

4) What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

The Real: Pasta and Lizzie Fitch 
The Virtual: Chloë Sevigny and Dash Snow

5) What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

One murder leads to another, as blood is the currency of longing and potential destroyer of inhibitions.

6) Who published your book?

Solar Luxuriance

7) How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

The more prose-like moments are from a text I wrote 8 years ago, and had been thinking of ever since. Most of this though was written in a whirlwind winter of desperate hell.

8) What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

In terms of the affective register, rather than purely based in form, I would say: Ariana Reines’s “MERCURY” means quite a bit along with Blake Butler’s “There Is No Year,” and Lauren Berlant’s “Cruel Optimism.” Kathy Acker’s “My Mother: Demonology: A Novel” and Dennis Cooper’s “The Sluts”.

9) Who or what inspired you to write this book?

Indebtedness to a feeling of the familial, and how being out of control is the only way to make one feel sovereign.

10) What else about the book might pique the reader’s interest?

There is really little held back, and with that comes a rawness to be appreciated and dwelled in. 

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Thanks for inviting me David! And please peruse this block of link filled text. Next up to thrash it out is Natalie Shapero. She was one of my TA’s for a creative writing course at OSU, and she is no doubt a stunner through and through. Her collection of poetry, No Object, will be released by Saturnalia Press, March 2013 (which I know, is not a novel, but we gotta keep things rolling, especially with the female influence.) 

THRONE OF BLOOD

ALT LIT & BEACH SLOTH & MOSQUITO
NOT SO SHABBY DOLL HOUSE, ISSUE 7