SUPER SUPERMACHINE

The firs issue of SUPERMACHINE is now ready for your order :)

SUPERMACHINE & Other Goods

SUPERMACHINE the reading series is now also a limited-run print journal! It is available for pre-order and will ship mid-February, so consider picking up a copy. I have some poems in there and so do many wonderfully awesome poets. Click here to find out who.

Also, this week the wonderful and super super super talented Betty White is getting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild! This is such great news. Betty has always kept it real and it's nice to see SAG keep it real by honoring her work. Cheers to Betty!

And, Prince wrote a fight song for the Minnesota Vikings! Prince said, "I saw the future" and then wrote this:


all of the odds r in r favor 
no prediction 2 bold 
we r the truth if the truth can b told 
long reign the purple and gold

the eyes say ready 4 battle
no need 4 sword in hand
we r all amped up like a rock n roll band
ready 2 celebrate every score
ready 2 fight the elegant war
ready 2 hear the crowd roar

New & Exciting

(image courtesy thewinger.com)

SUPERMACHINE is a self described "Brooklyn based poetry reading series and literary magazine." It comes from Ben Fama, Shonni Enelow, James Copeland, and Michael Barron.

They have some seriously great readings coming up. For example, tomorrow night these people are reading: Christian Hawkey, Cristophe Casamassima, Jennifer Kronovet, and Macgregor Card.

Matvei Yankelevich has a new book out. It is called Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books, 09).

And this is Michelle Taransky's book, Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn Publishing, 09).

And over at HTML GIANT it is Heather Christle week. Other online places are involved as well and chances to win things abound!

Eileen Myles interviews CA Conrad over at Poetry Foundation. Click here to read the interview (and see an original drawing by Paul Killebrew).