LA MER

Please consider buying the new issue of KTBAFC 

It is No.2

It features writing some great words and art by Melissa Broder, James Payne, Mark Thomas Stevenson, Erik Stinson, Dwight Pavlovic, Noah Ciero, Ken Baumann, Chelsea Martin, Michael Seidlinger, Myles Dunigan, Andrew James Weatherhead, David Fishkind, Maggie Lee, DJ Berndt, Mike Bushnell, Elvia Wilk, Willie Fitzgerald, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Sophia Diaz, Peter BD, Sarah San, Norman Feliks, and Eric Benick

Here is the cover by Neon Glittery

Shabby Doll House published 3 poems by me

Lit Pub published a recommendation by me

Civil Coping Mechanisms will be publishing my first novel in 2014. It is called WALLS, and it has 4 parts, and many sub-parts.

CCM is currently running an indie-gogo campaign to raise some money. buy a late xmas present or something for someone....they have lots of great works.

There is a KTBAFC reading on Dec. 29 in Brooklyn. It will feature Ana C., Mike Bushnell, Beach Sloth, Peter BD, Maggie Lee, Dennis Donnelly, Joselia Hughes, and thine-self.

Maggie Lee is great. Take a look at her!

Anyways, it's been an OK year. Just trying to keep eternal recurrence in mind while not forgetting about the unbearable lightness of being. It's hella lot to juggle.

I probably listened to this song more than any other song this year

Stare, a chapbook of 8 or 12 poems

Oh Man, Blogger is changing again and I can't even tell if its better.

I am going to start copying and pasting all my sporadic Blogspot posts onto my Tumblr account.

I'm not here to talk about those things, though

I'm here to tell you that you have a great opportunity to buy an amazing product

My chapbook, Stare, is now available for purchase via the Keep This Bag Away From Children Store.

It is $3. You can also buy a magazine that I helped edit/publish and other chapbooks by fabulous authors too, which I also helped edit/publish. There are good deals to be had if you're not a cheap wimp. Indulge in this purchase----you won't regret it.

There are either 8 or 12 poems (depending if you count a series of five short inter-related poems as 1 poem or 5 poems)

If you want to review my poetry chapbook, email me at andrewworthington87@gmail.com

Here is a picture of me holding up the cover of the chapbook. I drew the cover art, too. Isn't it beautiful?

Here is a picture of me holding up the middle of the chapbook. These two pages are the reason why I can't decide if there are 8 or 12 poems in this chapbook.

Here is a picture of me holding up the back of the chapbook. There is my blog URL and there is my magazine URL. Makes me want to weep for joy.

Hey, so, once again, it's 3 dollars.

If you want to read some sample poems before you decide to spend your 3 precious $, here ya go!


"Staring at Photographs of the Human Brain" was published by New Wave Vomit in May


"The Newest Blockbuster Hit: Now In A Theatre Too Near To You" was published by Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter in April



I read some of these poems at a reading the weekend before this with Mike Bushnell, Jordan Castro, Andrew James Weatherhead, Cassey Gonzaelz, Joselia Hughes, Dennis Donnelly, and others.

I read some of these poems plus two other things on Friday with Ben Nadler, Austin Givens, and Sophia Le Fraga. After the reading there was a party and went to the bathroom a few times. One time, I came out of the bathroom and people were taking a small group photo. I stared at the guy taking the photo and he looked at me and said "Yeah you have to move" in an annoyed voice. I thought that was unnecessary. I made a really angry tweet the next morning and then I ate falafel.


I had the words ready for this blogpost but I felt shy of taking photos of myself for a while. Otherwise, the post would have gone up hours ago. Jeez Louise.


Piece

STARING AT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN

http://newwavevomit.com/newwavevomit.com/271.html

read my poem above (if you want)

it is linked above (the underlined thing above)

i mentioned it in a blog post i wrote 11 months ago here

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tomorrow or Friday I will be making a big promotional post re: Keep This Bag Away From Children

the first issue is out....BUY IT HERE

Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter

Matt Margo published a poem by me called 'The Newest Blockbuster Hit: Coming Soon to a Theatre Too Near To You" on his site Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter

It can be found by clicking on the underlined hyperlink in the above sentence

VOl.1 BROOKLYN

Vol.1 Brooklyn published an excerpt of my novel. It can be found by clicking on this underlined portion of this blog post.

My novel is called I, Um

That is the tentative title

I like Vol.1 Brooklyn a lot.

It is one of a handful of sites that I check daily



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I hope everyone's spring has gotten off to a wicked start!

MR.BELLER'S NEIGHBORHOOD

Mr.Beller's Neighborhood published a piece by me called "I Would Have Wasted Those Thirty Dollars"


It is old school, or something.

I am starting a genre called "highly embellished non-fiction"....nothing like that exists yet, right?

Keep This Bag Away From Children

I mentioned in my last blog post how I started an art/lit magazine

Here is a list of contributors that will be in the first print issue. Comes out in April. Orders will be available soon.

Elvia Wilk, Benjamin Nadler, Neon Glittery, Andrew James Weatherhead,Frank Hinton, Crispin Best, Matt Margo, Brittany Wallace,  Eric Tyler Benik, Sarah San, Lauren Raheja, DJ Berndt, Marta Maleck, Noah Cicero, Sheila Byers, Ian Stroud, David Fishkind, Jordan Castro, Cassandra Nguyen, Niki Schur-Narula, Megan Lent, Marilee Pray

I have a story in the new issue of Midwestern Gothic

Midwestern Gothic is a 200+ page quarterly journal of fiction and poetry.

They published a story by me called "Calling Back Home", which is about urban sprawl, violence, drugs, militarism, and masculinity in the early 21st century.


ALSO

I started an art/lit magazine.

It is called KeepThis Bag AwayFromChildren.

CHECKITOUT.

(I will be devoting a longer blog post specifically to it in the near future)

Bulk Culture

I have been contributing to Bulk Culture.

I plan to contribute there 1-2 a week.

So far I have been writing about deli meat.

I think I will write about random things that end up in my pockets.

I think I will also write about deli cheese.

I think I will write about running.

I think I will write about music and movies and tv and art and sports and food (other than deli food).

You should check that site daily.

It can be your life.

It should be your life.

Adam Humphreies and Ana C. and Jordan Castro and Shaun Gannon and Noah Cicero and Scott McClanahan and  Mike Bushnell and some other peeps have been killing it over there.

If for some reason you think I am great and you just want to read me, then you click on the tab to your left, under non-fiction, which says "@ Bulk Culture" and then you will only see the things that I write.

I also should have a new essay up on The Nervous Breakdown sometime this week. I am trying to write about one post a month there.

If Bulk Culture isn't your life, then TNB should be your life.

On a related note, I have been digging Brad Listi's Other People Podcast. I don't listen to some of them because I am too unfamiliar with the authors, but I have listened to the ones with Megan Boyle, and Roxanne Gay, and Ben Marcus, and a few others.  Really good stuff.

Review of KADIAN by Jordan Castro

Jordan Castro has another chapbook out, this time on Hip Hip Hooray Press.

In previous books, Jordan Castro seemed to address issues in a more roundabout way.  

His poetry often seemed to have a repetitive, meditative quality to them, where different shades of an idea built upon one another.  

The meditative quality is still there, but now he is cutting right to the core of the ideas at hand. 

There is a fresh brevity to these poems.  

One of my favorite poems in this chapbook, "Without Drugs I am Nothing", has the repetitive quality to it, but I still like it.

I agree with Noah Cicero that this book has a Rimbaud feel to it.

"Constant Disappointment to the People I Love" is another one of my favorites in this series. You can hear Jordan reading it over the trailer to the book here.

I feel Jordan's voice, or the aspects that I like of it the most, are most present in "Only Writing This Poem To Distract Myself From Thinking About How Shitty Of A Friend/Person I Am."  

The poem itself is shorter than the title. It has a "tweet" vibe to it, like many of the things in the chapbook, although maybe that is retarded to say.

"C-Notes" is probably the funniest poem in the collection. It is about the author/narrator/Jordan sitting in a building and hearing C notes from different locations.  It is probably shorter than my description of it, and my description of it does not do it justice.

One poem is about Mad Men. I love Mad Men!

Jordan Castro does a great job with these poems. 

Reading Kadian is like reading a decadent poet write poems in an era where crunk and Twitter exist, and being good at doing it. 

("Turnt Up, Turnt Out" is a good example of this, and is another reason you should buy it)

The second to last poem is similar in tone to the poem that Jordan reads over the trailer. I liked it a lot, too.

The last poem is Jordan going in to even more new territory, filled with caps locks and exclamation marks.   It can be read on Matt Margo's lit blog Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter.  I also just realized another poem from this collection is one there too, although I am not going to say which one, although i don't know why I am not going to say.

I also highly recommend his solo musical mixtape that came out this winter.  The lyrics and poetry in it is similar in many ways to this chapbook.  

I hung out with Jordan over Christmas when I was home in Ohio.  It was the second time I had hung out with while being home for Christmas (this year and last year, respectively). He is way chill. I am glad he wrote this, and glad I read it.

stuff happening

i have a short prose piece up in the new issue of UP.

UP is a really cool lit mag run by carolyn decarlo and ras mashramani

i look forward to hearing what you think of it



also----and this is really big news----i have exploded on twitter

i tweet a lot now

CHECK IT OUT



other than that, i am just taking it one day at a time

i am working on the same novel i have always been working on and i am getting to ready to have some new essays published later this month

i am going to post a review of jordan castro's poetry book on friday at 5 PM

GET READY