Past Simple 7

I have two new poems up at Past Simple 7.

I watched The Red Balloon tonight. I don't have much else to say.

I live a quiet little life these days.

NOO job LOL

So from now on I will be the Social Editor for Noo Journal. Basically it means I will be interviewing everyone ever published by Noo, for the blog. How neat/omg that is a lot of people and a lot of emailing.

To start, Mike Young The Great, interviewed me. It's pretty serious. Yeah. And to make things sweeter, Mike dug out this really old weird picture of me eating breakfast for the blog (I think it was for sentimental reasons, cause it was the first time we hung out and now we are good ol' friends {also, I think Mike has a breakfast fetish, seriously he talks about it like to an uncomfortable degree}). Great.

PN!

The new issue of Pear Noir! is up for pre-order and I'm really excited about getting mine, not because I have a couple of things in it, and so I get it free (haha I win), but because once again I've ended up in very good company. In the last little while when ever I get a contributor copy of something in the mail, I've been so flushed and happy but embarrassed at the extremely high quality of the work I get to be accompanying. It's a really nice feeling.

There are things from all these amazing people: R.A. Allen, Eric Beeny, Andrew Borgstrom, Megan Boyle, Ron Burch, Edmond Caldwell, Jesse Cataldo, Jimmy Chen, Evan Cleveland, Ryan Dilbert, Russell Edson, David Fishkind, Roxane Gay, Ben Greenman, Bridgette E. Hahn, Mickey Hess, Christopher Higgs, Robert Hinderliter, Lily Hoang (a newly discovered favorite of mine), Emily Hockaday, Rich Ives, Kendra Grant Malone, Sally Wen Mao, Chris Moran, Dan Moreau, Jay Pabarue, Michelle Reale, Andrew Reger, Katelyn Romaine, Peter Shippy, Noel Sloboda, Lee Minh Sloca, Chris Smith, Curtis Smith, Garrett Socol, Audri Sousa, John Dermot Woods, Barry Yourgrau

You can order it here.

Also, I have been asked to contribute to the Post Card Single Series for this issue, which is a little extra post card with a poem of mine titled I've Taken To Watching Romantic Comedies While You Are Away. This only goes out with the first 50 copies so buy them up quick!

And coincidentally, a MLP stamp story I wrote titled I Slapped You will come with all pre-ordered copies of the issue.

I feel like I accidentally overwhelmed this issue with myself. If you don't like my writing just wait a few weeks and those other benefits will be gone and you can just skip the two things I have in the mag. If you do like me then buy the fuck up!

proud of new tattoo- introducing . . . armond!

i make very good decisions drunk and high on pills at three in the morning, always have, that's just my thing.

red is only my favorite color because i am partially color blind

my mouth feels filled with sand lately

wunderkrammer & la fovea

Two new things up today. First my wunderkrammer kid story is up. This project is edited by the amazing Kathryn Regina for the next week or so.

Also, I have two poems up at la fovea. This is a neat little site. The person on the site before me was Sean Lovelace. And now I get to pick someone to follow me. Neato.

Also, also, don't forget to read my new ebook Conor Oberst Sex, if you haven't yet. If you have, thank you baby.

Conor Oberst Sex

An ebook I wrote last year with Tao Lin, Conor Oberst Sex is now live at Happy Cobra Books.

"This little book made me want to call my friends and tell them they are not lonely but are loved. It also made me want to wear a shirt that says I HAD SEX WITH CONOR OBERST. It's modern and fresh and confessional and you should read it."

-Shane Jones, author of Light Boxes and some other shit

Hill Billy Teeth

We don't know how it started that night. We were very drunk, but then, on the road, we were rarely not drunk. Earlier that day in some town in Wisconsin we bought little plastic "hill billy" teeth. The next bar we went to everyone there had teeth just like the ones we had bought. The dancing began much later in the night though. After we had grown very tired from traveling all day we found a frightening motel in the town we wanted to be in. We listened to the most romantic music we had while we fucked very tenderly on the squeaky old bed. After, I cried while Eric smoked in the doorway. When he came back to me he changed the music to something happy. I think I threw my ugliest panties at him, the ones I wear when I am on my period. I felt a little surprised when he put them on, but not too surprised because he had done that before. Little flashes of memories are all I have left of that night. I put my bra on him and it stretched flat over his skinny chest. He began to dance for me like a gay stripper, I think to make me laugh, because crying makes him angry and unhappy. One of his balls fell from my lime green cotton panties (with white polka dots and pink trim). He put in the more horrible looking teeth and I was so moved by his desperate display, his pathetic desire to make me laugh. I was still naked when I stood and put on his underwear and the other pair of hill billy teeth. Next we were listening to British dance music, but slow dancing, like a waltz. His face was very sincere when he stared at me then, with those stupid teeth protruding from his pretty feminine lips. I thought about slapping his face while we waltzed, but I laid my head on him instead.

Little Books Anthology

The beloved J.A. Tyler is anthologizing every little book MLP put out in its first year. The release date is January 1st. The list of writers is just fucking awesome: ken baumann, shane jones, jimmy chen, brandi wells, blake butler, nick antosca, sam pink, james chapman, colin bassett, michael kimball, jac jemc, kim chinquee, kim parko, norman lock, randall brown, brian evenson, michael stewart, peter markus, ken sparling, aaron burch, david ohle, matthew savoca, p. h. madore, johannes göransson, ryan call, elizabeth ellen, molly gaudry, kevin wilson, mary hamilton, craig davis, kendra grant malone, lavie tidhar, lily hoang, mark baumer, ben tanzer, krammer abrahams, joshua cohen, eugene lim, c. l. bledsoe, joanna ruocco, josh maday, & michael martone.

You can pre-order it here: MLP: FIRST YEAR


above: post blood brother initiation with daniel bailey and myself, in muncie indiana (scene not included in RAPE CHILDREN)

My little book has gone and sold out. Thanks to all the people who bought it, blogged it, facebooked it and wrote me nice emails about it. Now the only way to get your hands on one is to buy the anthology. Or you could eat me out and maybe I'll give you a contributor copy.

hello, hi, hey

YIPPY SKIPPY YOU LIKE ME

Rape Children is almost sold out. I guess there are only a handful left. Go here, if you haven't already bought it.

Four Short Poems (we all wanted to cry but we just laughed for a bit instead)

You Might Be Running Out Of Time To Accomplish Whatever It Is That Makes You Behave The Funny Way You Do

have you ever drank
cheap red wine
out of a ginger ale
bottle on the train?

There Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of, Unless You Are Talking About Those Overly Sentimental Conversations You Have Late At Night With Drunk Friends

i smelled his book
while he touched
my father's tooth

Some Day I Hope There Is A Song With My Name In The Title, But Not Actually About Me, But The Odds Of That Happening Are Against Me Because My Name Is Just A Little Bit Unusual

you are not nostalgic
for things before
your time
i just don't
understand that

Widespread Global Panic Is Maybe The Only Thing That I Can't Imagine Actually Happening, And Thinking About It Makes Me Wistful For Things That Never Happened

"I looked up my missing and exploited children's report online today and they spelled my name wrong. No wonder they never found me."

MPL Chapbook Now Available

You can buy my chapbook Rape Children now for $3.

I really like MLP books. I have a full 18 volume subscription. I recommend doing this. J.A. Tyler has a really good handle on the style of his micro press and every month you get three little books in the mail. I really love little book day. So do my roommates.

Gustaf

Holy crap! What a nice magazine! I'm really happy to be included in such a great line up and with so many friends. Seriously folks, not a bad page in the thing.

Jon Hojlund Arnfred
Crispin Best
Arne Borge
Jimmy Chen
Noah Cicero
Wagner Israel Cilio III
David Fishkind
Brandon Scott Gorrell
Paul Habeeb
Brandon Hobson
Victoria Kielland
Sara Johanne Bjerkvik Leinaas
Tao Lin
Ryan Manning
Chelsea Martin
Astrid Hygen Meyer
Audun Mortensen
Sam Pink
Matthew Savoca
Nathan Tyree
Hanne Ulla
Jon Vaughn
Fredrik Wilhelmsen

Buy it here for what I think to be extremely affordable. Don't be cheap dudes (dudettes).

POETS & PUPPETS

above: Jean-Eric Boulin modeling our hostess, Sister Pat

face book event page

POETS & PUPPETS
Saturday, August 29, 8pm
Brooklyn, NY


BLAKE BUTLER has published more short stories than Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss combined. He is the author of EVER, a novella (Calamari Press), and the forthcoming Scorch Atlas, a novel in stories (Featherproof Books).

ISH KLEIN's book, Union! came out April 2009 through the Canarium Press. Her poems have been published in The Canary, Gare du Nord, The Hat magazine, X-connect, Bridge, Spork and are online. She also makes movies and lives in Philadelphia. Please see Ish Klein's new book UNION! http://unionbook.blogspot.com/

DOROTHEA LASKY is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

KENDRA GRANT MALONE is the author of five chapbooks, which include Love Your Friends and Not Your Lovers (bore parade) and Conor Oberst Sex (co-written with Tao Lin, forthcoming from Happy Cobra Books). When she came up with the idea for this party, she stole Leigh's heart.

LEIGH STEIN is the author of How to Mend a Broken Heart with Vengeance (Dancing Girl Press) and Least Inhabited Island II (h-ngm-n Combatives). She has always preceded Mike Young alphabetically.

MIKE YOUNG is the author of We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010) and two chapbooks: MC Oroville's Answering Machine (Transmission Press) and Real Sturdy Thing (Stormy Petrel Press). He co-edits NOÖ Journal and Magic Helicopter Press. Visit him online at http://mikeayoung.blogspot.com.

ALSO APPEARING:

We Play Parties

Josh Garret-Davis

*** Please BYO booze & friends (some friends may be provided).
+++ Email me for the house address.

Everything Is Quiet Update

I have finally finished editing my poetry manuscript, Everything Is Quiet.

Would any small presses like to look at it, or does anyone know of poetry presses that accept first book submissions, that are not part of a contest? I'm sure there a handful that I may have overlooked floating out there.

Email me at malone.kendra@gmail.com

all the little sounds

i've been thinking a lot
about babies
he looked
really scared when
i told him that
no i mean,
i don't want one,
i just feel obsessed
with them right now
he still looked scared
when he
took off his t-shirt
and lifted mine,
he shoved it under
making a misshapen
lump
he looked scared still
when he laid his head
on the demented looking
mound
and said to my stomach
mon bébé, ma famille
i laid back
embarrassed and satisfied
and fantasized about
crushing all the bones in
his face
and all the little sounds
they would make
snap snap snap

Ex Cathedra

I have a new story live today, at Ex Cathedra. It's actually a really old story, but it's new to you. My story starts on page 71. There are some other familiar faces, like my baby boy Matthew Savoca.

broadway junction

i had this dream last night
broadway junction
she spoke to me
her language
was these strange
whirs and whines
she asked me
if we would burn her down
she wanted to be ashes
i told her
yes
i told her
i'm sorry honey
i asked her
if
when she's all ashes
if we could retrieve
her stained glass
pieces
and wear them
as our halos
she said
sure

as i got off the train
she said
one more thing
kendra,
tell eric
i always loved
him

*UPDATE*

this has been reblogged at this strange little place.

sammy, my darling giant

above: sammy doing something illegal behind giant metal legs, but i wont say what

I was in Chicago a while back. It was a really sad weekend for me. However, I did meet sammy. He wrote this really nice thing about the day and evening we spent wandering, being worthless, magnificent losers together.

Also, if you haven't already, you should join the list to get Stephen Elliot's The Adderall Diaries for free. I read it, it's pretty incredible. You would be stupid not to sign up for this. Go here for more info.