On long lapses and reviews and new-s

A new GlitterPony (#12).

A new review of Try A Little Time Travel, this one by J. Mae Barizo, in the new issue of Sink Review (thank you!) (Ben Fama's Aquarius Rising is reviewed as well!)

A new venture (it's almost ready).

A new year. Happy (belated) new year!

Some Reviews

Try A Little Time Travel is reviewed in Poetry Project Newsletter and Coldfront. Thank you, Eddie Hopely and Kimberly Steele, for reading and thinking and writing!

Poetry Time Reading = Big Yay

Last night was the last NYC stop of the Time Travel through the Cosmos Tour. Ben Fama was charming and awesome as usual. James Copeland mesmerized the place with his poems and visual / musical accompaniment. And before the poems there were two bands -- Gem Club and Holy Spirits, and they were fantastic, reevaluate your life good.

And we won a cement head. The head did the introductions last night. He was very good. He will now live in the backyard.

Many big thanks to the Poetry Time folks for a very special night!

And I'm now looking to the future. In the future I need to write a poem because in the past (five months) I have not done so. The past to the future continuum can look like this for another Natalie:

Where did November go?

Some things that happened in November:

1. New poems in Sixth Finch.

2. Dad turns 55. 

3. Yardmeter reading with Ben Fama and Phil Provance, Chapter and Verse reading with Michelle Taransky and Jacob Russell, Visitng Writers Series reading with Michael Earl Craig (followed by a feast at Dara Wier's house).

4. New Kitten. 

And now, October

September snipped by. A student said, "You have book called Pink Panther!"

As It Ought To Be featured "Electrocardiogram" and "Small and Private Tragedies" in their Saturday Poetry Series. Today there are poems by Carl Adamshick that are cool gems!

Getting a late but beautiful start is GlitterPony 11. We have two Pettits, Guy and Emily! Also,  *Amy McDaniel, *Andrew Brenza, *Anne Holmes & Lily Ladewig, *Erin J. Mullikin, * J.A. Tyler,* Jackie Therrien, *Kate Greenstreet, and *Kristen Evans. Cover by Noah Bolton. Do you like our thoughtful cow?

Zachary Schomburg's Scary, No Scary and from the fjords showed up in the mail. The mailbox cheered! fjords has a stunning cover, rough and beautiful, like it came from a secret part of the earth!

To add to the good news, Jeannie Hoag's New Age of Ferociousness is now out from Agnes Fox Press. Brian Baldi and I are working on a special project around it that involves mailing things all over the US (and possibly beyond?) and tracking it all on the AF website.

Also, people are moving and birthdays are looming! The world continues to spin.

Reading Tonight!

The Aquarius Rising / Try A Little Time Travel "tour" begins tonight!

Metro Rythm reading series, 8 pm, Blue Angel Wines!

Ben Fama, Garrett Kalleberg, Kostas Anagnopoulos, and Natalie Lyalin!

New Poems in New Places

I have a poem in the new issue of We Are Champion

Issue #3 is Cezarija Arbatis, Mark Leidner, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Sasha Fletcher, Natalie Lyalin, Salvatore Pane, Thomas Patrick Levy, Kyle Winkler, Carolyn Zaikowski, Sean Kilpatrick, Elaine Kahn,
Gregory Sherl, Donora Hillard.

And some poems in the new new Esque

In ISSUE 1:

OETRY is the kitchen sink.
Charles Bernstein. Bei Dao. Tamiko Beyer. Jackie Clark. Amy De'Ath. Lidija Dimkovska. Kate Durbin. Steven Karl. Natalie Lyalin. Filip Marinovich. Sharon Mesmer. Miguel Murphy. Ariana Reines. Saeed Jones. Tomaz Salamun. Evie Shockley. Heidi Lynn Staples. Leigh Stein. Cole Swensen. John Tranter. Matvei Yankelevich. 

IFESTO is everything but.
Jennifer Bartlett. Jillian Brall. Ching-In Chen. Ken Chen. Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Jennifer H. Fortin. Molly Gaudry. Roxane Gay. Matt Hart. Brenda Hillman. Dan Hoy. Ron Padgett & Olivier Brossard. Lars Palm. Joan Retallack. Brandon Shimoda. Anne Waldman. Franz Wright. Carolyn Zaikowski.


And what else? Summer is over. Ovah. I now have an attic to myself and there are june bugs here. I'm reading and studying up on fairy tales. Grimms' in particular, though much of Angela Carter as well. "The Bloody Chamber," whoa. Whoa.