I made a magazine. You can like, buy it at Barnes & Noble. Let me take you through the process of discovering Quilty magazine.

First, you approach the newsstand. Wow. That’s a lot of quilting magazines.

But wait… One is standing out. There, down at the lower righthand corner of this photograph… There’s just one copy left!

Let’s take a look. If we’re going to spend our hard-earned bread on a quilting magazine, well it had better be good!

Holy cats! Why, it even FEELS good! Just picking it up feels fantastic! It’s … Read entire post

Yesterday I met a young woman who had a tattoo of the Chanel logo on her ribcage. These things will happen.

There on her left side, writ large, were the iconic interlocking C’s. Not content to stop while she could still say one day, “Wanna see how stupid I was when I was 24?” and have people go, “Yeah, but hey at least it’s Chanel, right?” our friend spent more of her hard-earned money for the addition of what I think was supposed to be a kind of fringe off the bottom of the letters. She probably saw a gold Chanel … Read entire post

I would like to leave the country.

I would like to leave the country and go to Vienna.

I would like to do this within the next six months. .

It shall be done.

(You’ll see.)

There’s a poetry show coming up. There are two, actually. This is the first PUBLIC NOTICE and there will be a second PUBLIC NOTICE, but let’s begin at the beginning for heaven’s sake.

On May 25th, I’m happy to be doing a show with Chicago Slam Works called “Dead or Alive.” Selected poets from ’round the town are going to compete against each other for bragging rights and a Twinkie, probably. It will be held at the lovely Vittum Theater at 8:00pm. What makes this competition different from your typical slam?

Half of us will be competing with the poems of dead … Read entire post