Typed on the 1961 Hermes 3000, a pair of poems from Meteor:
At last, my book, Meteor, which won the Gival Press Poetry Award, is listed on amazon, et al. The official launch will be in March, at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Portland, Oregon. If you’re attending that conference, I welcome you to come by the Gival Press 20th Anniversary Celebration Reading and my book signing at the Gival Press table in the bookfair.
See also:
> Interview by Leslie Pietrzyk for “Work-in-Progress” blog
> Meteor, Influences, Ambiance
> Another poem from Meteor: “In the Garden of Lope de Vega”
Apropos of typing, I am honored to also announce that my short story “What Happened to the Dog?” has been accepted for Cold Hard Type: Typewriter Tales from Post-Digital Worlds, edited by novelist Frederic S. Durbin, writer and Professor of English Andrew McFeeters, and philosopher Richard Polt, the Dean of the Typoshere, and author of The Typewriter Revolution. My own vision of the post-digital world? A mashup of a Fortean echo of Aeschylus’ death, the Galapagos Islands, an Ivy League university quadrangle, and round-a-campfire singin’ with the Girl Scouts. (Like they say about the future, the imaginal can be a beyond-strange land.) What post-digital worlds did the other contributors come up with? I for one look forward to reading…
In case you missed it, I posted here a while ago about the return to typewriters. As Andrew McFeeters says on his blog, The Untimely Typewriter:
“There’s a small, international army of typewriter users and collectors on this planet called Earth. Many share some core beliefs: 1) The typewriter inspires creative, deliberate, and thoughtful writing through its singular purpose; 2) Typewriters have no distracting social media apps. Writing, after all, is a solitary act; 3) Typewriters do not require batteries; 4) New technology is not bad, but it is inferior to the mighty typewriter; 5) If you do not think typewriters are cool, then that leaves more typewriters for the rest of us. Still, don’t knock it until you try it; and 6) If you feel the clacking call of the typewriter beneath the full moon on a windy night, check out Richard Polt’s website”
Richard’s blog is named after his book, The Typewriter Revolution.
P.S. Visit again next Monday for a fascinating Q & A with Ellen Cassedy, who has translated a brilliant, moving, and genuinely landmark book of short fiction.
Typosphere, Ho! “Stay West” on my 1961 Hermes 3000
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