Pear Slip Book Release Party
The day has come! Please come celebrate the release of Pear Slip on Thursday, December 13th at 7pm at The Dove. Click here to order your copy of Pear Slip. Hope to see you there (The Dove has happy hour til 8)!
Phil Levine 80th Birthday Tribute
I took Greg along to Phil Levine’s 80th Birthday Tribute at The Great Hall at Cooper Union last night (and he took me to a great sushi bar afterward! Double win!). Another packed house, just like at the Galway Kinnell tribute earlier this year. The proceedings were filled with the usual humor that surrounds a Read More …
When Pasties Bookend Your Weekend
Thursday night Greg and I went to see Margaret Cho in her Sensuous Womanvariety show. It was wonderfully raunchy and has deepened my fascination of the burlesque. Lots of nudity and pasties and subversive behavior (the rap “I’m not a homo-sexual, I’m a sexual homo” will stick in your head all night). Loved Dirty Martini’s America Read More …
GoodReads Author
With the pending publication of Pear Slip and its listing on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, my GoodReads user profile has been converted to an author profile. I’ll be posting upcoming events there, including a book release party in December and a book signing at the AWP conference in early 2008. Check it out: Matthew Hittinger.
Pear Slip Available for Pre-Order
Pear Slip is now available for pre-order from Spire Press. You can check out the book cover and ordering information HERE. Here are some blurbs: “Take a pear. Any pear. Divide it into sensuous surface and the idea of sensuous surface. Mix with one part philosophy and two parts jeu d’esprit. Pass the whole through Read More …
Matt Donovan’s Vellum
I picked up this book after reading the first poem (which is rare for me, to have something leap out in such a way) and after noticing a nice list of “notes” at the back (nothing like a well-researched book of poems in conversation with other sources to whet my appetite), and finished it in Read More …
Adrienne Rich’s Poetry & Commitment
Picked this up in City Lights over the weekend and read it on the plane home today. I was a bit disappointed by both her and the afterword by Mark. Not their best work on the subject of politics and poetry. Still this passage did stuck with me: “I hope never to idealize poetry–it has Read More …
Sittin’ There in My Gucci. Waitin’.
On our way to LaGuardia on the M60 we overheard these two women giving hell to a guy: Woman One: “If my man’s a businessman and he has to work late, he should at least call.” Woman Two: “Mm-hmm.” Woman One: “I don’t want to be sittin there in my Gucci. Waitin.” Above them a Read More …
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Finally finished this. I picked it up months ago when I decided to write my beast fable/bestiary. As a kid I was obsessed with “The Bremen Town Musicians” which we had on vinyl and to which I would listen over and over again. After studying the tale I decided to read all 99o-some pages of Read More …
Winner of the Beauty/Truth Press Chapbook Competition
Just found out my sequence Narcissus Resists won the 2007 Beauty/Truth Press Chapbook Competition. They are estimating the print date will be December 1st, and you can check in on their publication schedule here:BeautyTruthPoetryPublications