An excerpt of the brilliant piece “The Trainee,” (2008) by Pilvi Takala, in which she spent days at a consulting firm (Deloitte) doing nothing. 

I had a good talk with Filip on Saturday. Stop by the Homeless Museum of Art when you can.

Check out the new painting all up on my wall! Untitled, 2012, by Kimi Hodges. 

Photos from last night’s BLUE LETTER reading at Sal’s Pizza in Brooklyn. Eileen Myles, Will Edmiston, Laura Solomon and John Coletti. What a time it was! More details at http://theblueletter.org.

Video of live performance of “So Many Fortresses,” my collaboration with video artist Jane V Hsu (see http://janevhsu.com), at Ran Tea House in Brooklyn on March 3.

SO MANY FORTRESSES, my poetry, sound, and video collaboration with artist Jane V Hsu, will have its premiere performance this Saturday, March 3 at 7pm at the **FREE** Synthetic Zero & {S0NIK} Fest <5.0> at Ran Tea House, 269 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211. The free fest will also include performances by Greg Potter and Seyhan Musa, and a number of additional installations and screenings. Drinks will be served. You may RSVP on Facebook.

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“Made in US” by Sara Cwynar

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chrishosea: packaging up the yin yang

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ONLY YOU CAN OVERTHROW FACEBOOK. This weekend, as part of Internet Week New York and Presentation Party Night, I’ll tell you why. Sunday, May 20, 7pm at The Loom, 1087 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Facebook invite. Map/directions.

Anne Collier is a genius.

Another Blue Letter reading at Sal’s Pizzeria!

Wednesday, April 4, The Blue Letter presents Eileen Myles, Laura Solomon, John Coletti, and Will Edmiston. It all starts at 8pm, at Sal’s Pizzeria and Mama Maria’s Restaurant at 305 Court Street, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, 11231. The nearest train station is F or G to Carroll Street. Click to RSVP on Facebook.

This Wednesday, March 7 at 8 p.m., come on down to Sal’s Pizzeria & Mama Maria’s Restaurant at 305 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY for an amazing evening of lyricism, genius, rhythm, metrics, apostrophe, disjunction, and metaphor featuring Khadijah Queen, author of Black Peculiar, Prudence Peiffer, art critic and poet extraordinaire, and Kate Schapira, author of How We Saved the City. Sal’s is close to the Carroll St F/G subway station. Here is a map. Invite your friends and RSVP on Facebook. Learn more about the poets and the series at theblueletter.org. 

Feeling San Francisco.