Little Samaritan Etchings Clutter The Choice

Drawing By Anna Dunn of My Sweatshirt

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Lightning Yeti

Help Will Come

Big Mitts

The shake on
it, his fanfare
dimmed in chummy
adieu, along
with that specimen
pose like evidence
held with gloves,
makes for a montage
to stash my daily
fabling in layover.
‘To wait is a sport
now or science,’
he says, more horizon
than standing there.
I scan myself for laws
and find none,
watch his wave
like a bellows
boost with minutes
what present we have
left. I am already
readied. Those footsteps’
minuet of fading out
have their simpatico
with any crooked
inch I have marched
before. Still I’ll send
my letters to a desert
with Internet, roam our
ratio to its lopsided
max, and if something
of us should spill
in that rickety
arithmetic, I will
greet it like North
with my compass alone.

Uninhabitable Mansions

5.25.09 at Union Pool. Uninhabitable Mansions is a band and publishing company. An old poem of mine, "Blizzard/Elektro", appeared in their first book, Census. They don't play many shows, but they do play their instruments very, very fast.

Robbie is an old friend. We played music a couple times, saw Phil Elvrum at a Mexican Restaurant in South Williamsburg, all the good shit. Uninhabitable Mansions is his darling project. Really beautiful stuff.

The Diorama Tragedy of 1984 and The Creation From Mis

Ignorant of the definition, I stacked my treasured collection of rocks onto a shoebox lid as my "diorama" for Cub Scouts - plain stones split in half by my archaeologist father to reveal hidden fossils and the obviously beautiful agates we found together. Gluing the stack of precious stones was unthinkable so they barely balanced. My pride in the construction, which I thought of as a ship form, slipped into embarrassment as the rocks slipped into rubble, reaching a zenith of shame upon entering the pack meeting to discover the true definition:

diorama (def): a meticulous model scene crafted by the parents of nine-year-old boys.

It is no wonder I focused my talents on drawing Garfield after that. Now the repressed memory has resurfaced as evidence of an earlier manifestation of my current practice. Only - for this work - I have sold-out my younger self and used glue. -Jared Clark

Everyone should check out Jared Clark's art/blog. Everyone should also go to Black and White Gallery (Chelsea) and see his stuff that's in the group show that's there right now. Jared is a rad dude who makes rad art. His idea of creation from misunderstanding, deliberate or otherwise, manifests itself in very intriguing and troubling ways. More on this later.

DNS DIY

DrunknSailor was born downstairs. In 2005 at a bar called Lolita on the Lower East Side we decided to hold a monthly reading series. It was mostly poetry but there was some short fiction as well. Our audience consisted of friends and chance patrons and sometimes just ourselves. During these months we didn’t really know what this thing we called DrunknSailor was. We knew it was us and we knew that maybe someday we wanted to make books out of it. At the time Anna was working at a bookstore in SoHo called McNally Robinson. We made the book. We had a party at the bookstore. Everyone drank and Andrew wore chaps.



The group continued to throw events. At the Bowery Poetry Club, at Marlow & Sons, a few other places, but the next big hurrah took place at a little art space near the Williamsburg Bridge called Outrageous Look. Meg Lipke had two rooms full of paintings and we were to read in them. It was the first of many readings in the space. A year or two later Outrageous Look became Capricious Space, where we released DnSV2, a second installment of work from the group. Somewhere in there we read at Adam’s thesis show.



After that we all made odd little books. And now we’re planning something new. Our events are more of a party than a poetry reading. More of a house show. The writing is what begets the get-together, but perhaps no more or less than the beer and the company. See you this summer.


Anna Dunn, Mya Spalter, Dan Lang, Peter Milne Greiner, Carrie Lesser-Williams, Charlotte Kamin, Andrew Daul, Mary Dowd, Austin English, Eli Dansky, Rachel Herman-Gross, Garret Seipel, Claire Gage, John Lorvich, Jess Arndt

I Want New Haunts

On Cinco de Mayo R and I tried to avoid trouble by going to an old haunt, which proved to be a dubious exercise in remembering. We ended up jotting a few things down.

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