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Christmas 2011

Dawn Pendergast — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:27:53 PST

Christmas was sort of cross-country-crazy this year. In Texas, we had Christmas with the Klinger Cousins, the Johnson Cousins, and Christmas Eve (otherwise known as a ridiculous number of presents) followed by Christmas dinner. Then Paul and I hit the road for more Christmas with the Pendergasts and Jimmy/Misty. “Vacation” is a sprint.

Thanksgiving 2011

Dawn Pendergast — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:00:56 PST

Thanksgiving came and went as simply as it could. Mom and Dad drove to Texas this year because Julie and Gracies were in Disneyworld. A fairly painless affair if I do say so myself!

Flash Review: The Strings of Walnetto Arrangements by Ben Estes

Dawn Pendergast — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 10:12:17 PDT

The Strings of Walnetto Arrangements by Ben Estes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Punky is right I say it is right so it must be Right Night at the poetry house–crickets chipping in a not-quite-stein voice for all the rabbits and cymbals popping out the dampness. I low the low in the voice of [...]

Flash Review: Barn Burned, Then by Michelle Taransky

Dawn Pendergast — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:05:57 PDT

Barn Burned, Then by Michelle Taransky My rating: 5 of 5 stars I continue in awe of the way Taransky can break a line. The poems are as worked as work can be, but broken thank goodness, broken like champs. Can’t imagine the lines any differently. But I don’t really think the crux of this [...]

Flash Review: Born Two by Allison Cobb

Dawn Pendergast — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:03:42 PDT

Born Two by Allison Cobb My rating: 5 of 5 stars A romp(er) in the sense that everything is worn, frayed, last legs etc. That the language is newish and known, a sound fulcrum, & um (sic) becoming. No being the master in these poems, no meaning no to those who wish to ‘ah’ at [...]

Flash Review of NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS by Michelle Taransky

Dawn Pendergast — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:25:31 PDT

NO, I WILL BE IN THE WOODS by Michelle Taransky My rating: 5 of 5 stars It was raining raining raining when I got the mail and opened it and read this book (thank goodness) instead of doing nothing. And what a beautiful book of poems printed on opaque vellum and what a treat to [...]

Eerie jections

Dawn Pendergast — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:36:12 PDT

The horse is more or less off course you could say always cut the horse and keep the crystals pissing which is to say take some names down some blinds, have tea in the evening or just [holy moley, I] as ever I pitched for a couch outgoing in disposal broken as in my fridge is, as [...]

writing is a speed buckle up worm.

Dawn Pendergast — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:25:33 PDT

I think about whether real relation has a place in writing. Whether it is work to say these things like we’ve been saying them all along. Like all we were thinking were these things that needn’t be said and are and are also so so beautiful and arranged and un worked and whether it is [...]

copy paste

Dawn Pendergast — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:02:00 PDT

A ten-week temporary workspace for the exploration of generative practices in contemporary experimental writing. The goal of the space is two-fold: 1. To read, discuss and debate contemporary approaches to experimental writing. 2. To produce new work in innovative ways that engage with contemporary strategies of appropriation, erasure, recycling, remixing, framing, stealing, copying, pasting, recovery, documentation, [...]

Brest Poems (August 11th – August 22nd)

Dawn Pendergast — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:17:20 PDT