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Video footage of PULL RELEASE PARTY!! BE ABOUT IT!!!

Evan Karp of Litseen came to the Be About It: Pull party and recorded the reading! Check it out below, I have the entire playlist posted here, so you can hear all the writers who came out that...

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PULL Release Party and Buy a Zine for Five Dollars Now

We have ZINES! Click the button below to buy one now! They're only five dollars. For just one Abraham Lincoln, you will get a power-punched zine full of amazing up and coming and established...

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A horrible dream.

I had one of the most horrific dreams that I've ever had in my life last night. It felt real and it was so graphic and so upsetting that it woke me up unsettled. I dreamed that my cat jumped out of...

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Tin Can performs at Quiet Lightning: May 3, 2013

I have a poetry persona named Tin Can. She is made of Campbell's Tomato Soup and likes to rap and read scary stories. Last Friday Tin Can went to Oakland and performed at Quiet Lightning. This is...

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Thinking about I Will Always Be Your Whore [my love poems for Billy Corgan]

When I write a love poem, I'm writing a love poem. I'm not necessarily thinking about politics or economics or history or philosophy. However, because everything I write and you write is colored by...

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the SURPRISE! issue of BE ABOUT IT now available to read online/download :)

BE ABOUT IT #6 ("PULL") is in the works and we will have hard copies by next week!! Until then, check out BE ABOUT IT #5 ("SURPRISE!"), now available to read online and for download! Hot diggity...

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Black hat tricky email reads like HuffPo headline word salad, or "How not to inherit family's bad financial habits. Udupi: She was Most Beautiful Woman once, a former State Minister, MP; now."

I got this in my inbox the other day. The email is clearly a scam, because why else would a "Fast growing International Company" randomly solicit me? Because I'm obviously that great of a team...

Apr 25, 2013 Like

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Six-six-sixth issue PULL (donate and be acknowledged, BE ABOUT IT)

The sixth issue of my literary zine, BE ABOUT IT, is almost ready! Our team of expert designers and editors (my good friends Jillian and Amy) have been working hard to get this issue to print, and...

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"Straddle" Fuselit poem circa 2005 [THROWBACK]

I've been trying to spruce up my portfolio recently (if you haven't checked it out recently, I suggest that you do so now), and I've been adding links to some of work I've been lucky enough to get...

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Out of Our Magazine Reading at The Emerald Tablet (and FUCK YEA, GREGORY CORSO)

A poem I wrote called "Dream Home" was recently published in Out of Our Magazine (available online and at City Lights, Needles and Pens, Viracocha, The Beat Museum, and other fine retailers). A few...

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Phone sex notes [check out the front page of Metazen today]

I wrote something and it's on Metazen today. Check it out. It's fiction. Kind of.

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?Brush Tonight? by Jessica White [random video review], file under #altlit #troll

Some defunct email address inboxed this video to me on Tumblr just now. I kind of love it. It was inboxed to quite a large amount of people, judging by the youtube comments that are already...

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Sometimes I put effort into my appearance [style update via WILD Magazine]

Sometimes I put effort into my appearance. While in Portland a few weeks ago I got stopped on the street by the WILD Magazine for an impromptu fashion shoot. Janey and I were walking on Alberta...

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Skywriting in the Minor Key: women, words, wings by Adele C. Geraghty [book review]

Skywriting in the Minor Key: women, words, wings is a book of poems by Adele C. Geraghty. The book, published by BTS (Between These Shores) Books in Sheffield, England, is slender with a full color...

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Good night sweet prince, my darling Skippy

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! Skippy Naughton (2002 - 2013) He was my first real pet. You know, a pet I could actually pet. You...

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I am a GIF / Portland ish / my very own Reddit thread

I went to Portland last week with Janey Smith, who was invited to read at the famous Powell's Bookstore for the sixth annual Smallpressapalooza. Neither of us had ever been to Oregon before, so it...

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the apocalypse already happened, we were too busy to notice [new poem on Guerrilla Graffiti Magazine]

I was invited by Brice Maiurro to help staff his new online literary mag, Guerrilla Graffiti Magazine. Despite the fact that I have multiple projects in the works and little time to myself, I said...

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Interview with Erika Kuciw of Shuttergirl Phototgraphy

This is my interview with Erika Kuciw of Shuttergirl Photography. I met Erika back in 2006 through a mutual friend. Erika was looking for women to photograph for a series she was working on at the...

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Tin Can at The Secret Alley / 851 The Squat

Below are a few photos from a few weeks ago when I performed with Janey Smith at The Secret Alley in San Francisco. We read one of Janey's poems from The Snow Poems together, then showed a video we...

Mar 21, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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COFFEE IN YR FACE (poem the news / I pwn and you lose)

Thanks to Mason Johnson for including me in this delightful edition of Poem The News. I wrote a poem based on a news story and it was published on the CBS News Chicago website. You can check it out...

Mar 15, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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A MODERN LOVER by D. H. Lawrence [book review/book cover review]

I picked up a copy of A Modern Lover and Other Stories, along with a bunch of Alfred Hitchcock paperbacks, from a vintage book store in Nob Hill called Kayo Books. The cover drew me in, in classic...

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Raccoon Remix by Grannell Knox [video review, kinda]

Raccoons Red Records brookeduckart"Raccoon Remix" is a 17-minute video by Grannell Knox. Grannell Knox is someone I met on the internet. A few weeks ago, he posted something online about looking...

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Some thoughts on House of Cards with Kevin Spacey... mmm Kevin Spacey [review]

(Photo credit: DavidErickson)House of Cards, have you seen it? With all the buzz on social media and all the advertisements around the city and on the bus and on your red Netflix envelope, it's...

Feb 21, 2013 Like

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Body Double and Tsaritsa's To-Dos

I recently watched Body Double (the movie that Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho is constantly checking out from, and returning to, the video store-- "I need to return...

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PULL deadline announcement: February 16th so BE ABOUT IT

Calling all cars, calling all cads, calling all dads, calling all lads. The deadline for BE ABOUT IT's upcoming release, PULL, is Saturday, February 16th by midnight. Think you can swing it? I'd...

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a poem for Dr. House, M.D.

"First, 'Hector does go rug' is a lame anagram. You want a better one for 'Gregory House?' 'Huge ego, sorry.' Second, "I don't owe you anything." - House M.D., "House Training" Season 3 Episode 20...

Jan 28, 2013 Like

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HOW WE ARE HUMAN [poetry review]

This is the first time I was asked to write a poetry review. Yes, the Tsaritsa's first review solicitation. I guess we're coming up in the world, or something is going right with my SEO, or maybe...

Jan 20, 2013 Like

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Poems posted on THOUSAND SHADES OF GRAY

THOUSAND SHADES OF GRAY, an awesome online magazine of poetry and prose, was kind enough to publish three of my poems on their website. Go check out THREE LOVE POEMS FOR A DEAD PERSON here! Look,...

Jan 10, 2013 Like

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SUBMIT to PULL, READ the TRIUMPH issue online!

Hey all! BE ABOUT IT is currently accepting submissions for the next issue. The theme (or catalyst word) is "pull" so please mull that over in your brain and create an original work inspired by...

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Video footage of PULL RELEASE PARTY!! BE ABOUT IT!!!

PULL Release Party and Buy a Zine for Five Dollars Now

A horrible dream.

Tin Can performs at Quiet Lightning: May 3, 2013

Thinking about I Will Always Be Your Whore [my love poems for Billy Corgan]

the SURPRISE! issue of BE ABOUT IT now available to read online/download :)

Black hat tricky email reads like HuffPo headline word salad, or "How not to inherit family's bad financial habits. Udupi: She was Most Beautiful Woman once, a former State Minister, MP; now."

Six-six-sixth issue *PULL* (donate and be acknowledged, BE ABOUT IT)

"Straddle" Fuselit poem circa 2005 [THROWBACK]

Out of Our Magazine Reading at The Emerald Tablet (and FUCK YEA, GREGORY CORSO)

Phone sex notes [check out the front page of Metazen today]

?Brush Tonight? by Jessica White [random video review], file under #altlit #troll

Sometimes I put effort into my appearance [style update via WILD Magazine]

Skywriting in the Minor Key: women, words, wings by Adele C. Geraghty [book review]

Good night sweet prince, my darling Skippy

I am a GIF / Portland ish / my very own Reddit thread

the apocalypse already happened, we were too busy to notice [new poem on Guerrilla Graffiti Magazine]

Interview with Erika Kuciw of Shuttergirl Phototgraphy

Tin Can at The Secret Alley / 851 The Squat

COFFEE IN YR FACE (poem the news / I pwn and you lose)

A MODERN LOVER by D. H. Lawrence [book review/book cover review]

Raccoon Remix by Grannell Knox [video review, kinda]

Some thoughts on House of Cards with Kevin Spacey... mmm Kevin Spacey [review]

Body Double and Tsaritsa's To-Dos

PULL deadline announcement: February 16th so BE ABOUT IT

a poem for Dr. House, M.D.

HOW WE ARE HUMAN [poetry review]

Poems posted on THOUSAND SHADES OF GRAY

SUBMIT to PULL, READ the TRIUMPH issue online!

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