DogPunk & Psychedelic Stinky Cat: Kyle Hemmings' Blog

Kyle Wins the Valentine's Prompt at Press 53!

2012-02-18T06:49:00.001-08:00

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My new collection of stories/flash fictions: You Never Die in Wholes

2012-02-16T00:08:00.000-08:00

My new collection of flash fictions/stories written over the last five or so years. You Never Die in Wholes, published by GoodStoryPress for Kindle. Might branch out into other media depending on sales. Please buy a copy for this coffee-addicted writer. www.amazon.com/Never-Wholes-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B0079MNYSW/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1329347696&sr=1-3

Some artwork up at Circus of the Damned

2012-01-26T11:28:00.000-08:00

A new zine. http://damnedpublishing.blogspot.com/

Down Moon Girl

2012-01-21T15:47:00.001-08:00

Down Moon Girl, Vol. 1. The publisher decided to sell this in two installments for 99 cents, rather than one big one for $2.99, since the work was "experimental." I'm not sure how you get this if you don't have kindle, but I think there is a way. <a href ="http://www.amazon.com/Down-Moon-Girl-1-ebook/dp/B0070BUJUI%3FSubscriptionId%3D0SBFH8FHMR8PSPMHY202%26tag%3Dfictionaut-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0070BUJUI">click here</a>

Buy One, Get One Free-Week of Jan.14-22-Trestle Press

2012-01-14T10:08:00.000-08:00

My interview on blog radio over my new collection

2012-01-12T14:10:00.000-08:00

My interview with Giovanni Gelati over my new collection titled Down Moon Girl. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop/2012/01/10/kyle-hemmings-drops-in-to-discuss-his-work

A competition you shouldn't miss out on

2012-01-07T09:45:00.000-08:00

Fiona Johnson will be giving away three books if anyone can come up with the best title for her third Kick It novel. Check it out:

http://imeanttoreadthat.blogspot.com/2012/01/competition-time.html

New Poem up at Blast Furnace

2012-01-07T09:06:00.001-08:00

Women Out of Love. Originally part of a triad. Check it out, along with other great writers: http://www.blastfurnacepress.com/2011/12/blast-furnace-volume-1-issue-4-autumn.html

The cover for my new book: Down Moon Girl

2012-01-05T16:10:00.001-08:00

From Trestle Press. Very excited about this collection based on Manga art.

Nostrovia-Check This Out This New Zine

2012-01-01T11:17:00.000-08:00

My poem made Poem of the week--Robo G6. Some excellent poets here. I recognize Valentina Cano. Check this zine out, very cool. http://www.nostroviatowriting.com/robo-g6.html

My new chapbook up at TenPagePress: Hojo Boy

2011-12-23T10:55:00.000-08:00

My new chapbook of poems based on my experiences working as a dishwasher/cook at Howard Johnson, 1969--1981. Hojo Boy. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4G1h48QKjw7ZDkxMzMzNDgtMTE4MS00ZGVlLWI1NjAtMzkyNmY4MmNjNTlm&hl=en_US

Tokyo Girls in Science Fiction

2011-12-11T21:12:00.000-08:00

My new e-chapbook from NAP. Live and free. Many thanks to Chad Redden, the wonderful members of Lisa Cihlar's office, and The Flash Factory. http://issuu.com/napmagazine/docs/tokyogirls

Nominated for a Pushcart

2011-12-02T08:01:00.000-08:00

My thanks to Darren Carlaw, editor of Step Away Magazine, for nominating my story "Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan" for a Pushcart. Written around the time of my other Cat People Pieces later included in the Scars Chapbook.

Warren Oates

2011-12-01T00:30:00.000-08:00

Just saw Warren Oates in Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. A very underrated actor, perhaps more known in his outlaw role as one of The Wild Bunch. Also did great work in Monte Hellman's 1971's Two-Lane Black Top with James Taylor and Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson. Too bad his career was cut short in 1982, just when he was getting the acclaim he deserved.

New Chapbook up at TenPagePress

2011-10-26T11:09:00.000-07:00

A new chapbook of ten poems: Underwater Girls <a href = "https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4G1h48QKjw7Y2RhOWQwMmYtZTUzMC00MmRkLWE1YzktNWVjNTk3NDBjZWNj&hl=en_US&pli=1"<Click Here</a>

A link to some of my chapbooks

2011-10-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

At SmashKitty.com

http://smashkitty.com/books/index.php?option=com_joomflix&view=author&name=Kyle+Hemmings&Itemid=3
And, no, the person in the photo is not me.

Pear Noir! has accepted...

2011-10-15T11:05:00.001-07:00

...five of my latest prose poems/flash fictions. Really excited about that. A zine that has published the likes of Robert Olin Butler and others.

Up at In Between Altered States

2011-10-07T12:49:00.000-07:00

A flash piece. Ninja. A <a href = "http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/ninja-by-kyle-hemming/">In Between Altered States</a>My thanks to Aleathia Drehmer.

Amazing How Dance Styles have changed...

2011-10-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

but I still appreciate watching a good Frug or Watusi or Jerk. The band is The Human Beings. But the go-go dancers are the real show. If only I was a little older back then.

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Drip Castle

2011-10-03T23:00:00.000-07:00

Now here's an interesing idea for a fledging zine. The Editor at Drip Castle wants old stories along with a revised version. In other words, take out that embarrassing piece you wrote in 7th grade along with a revision. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to submit yet.

Acceptances and a tribute to an East Village Punk

2011-10-03T20:50:00.000-07:00

After a long string of rejections, I got two acceptances today of my flashes. One by Leodegraunce and the other by Perhaps I Am Wrong About This World. (I think that is really such a cool name for a zine).

On another note, I was reading about poet, bassist, actor, Richard Hell. He spent a few months in a band called Television in the mid-seventies, then left to play with Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. Formed Richard Hell & the Voidoids. Putting together a stellar lineup (including guitarist, Robert Quine). The quartet was an immediate hit with the CBGB's crowd.

Their 1977 debut, Blank Generation, has gone on to become one of punk's all-time classics, spawning such standards as the title track and "Love Comes in Spurts" As the band toured the world, they opened for such acts as The Clash.

Hell kept himself busy in the '80s with his poetry and bit parts in movies, his best-known role being Madonna's boyfriend in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan, while a 14-track collection of Voidoids outtakes and live material, R.I.P., was issued on the ROIR label (another collection, this one a set of live tracks, followed a few years later, titled Funhunt). Just as it appeared as though Hell had turned his back on music for good, he reappeared in 1992 as part of the group Dim Stars (which featured Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, as well as Gumball's Don Fleming, and, again, Robert Quine on guitar), issuing a self-titled release the same year. The group proved to be a temporary project.

Hell has authored several books over the years, including such titles as Wanna Go Out? (a collection of poems collaborated on with Verlaine), I Was a Spiral on the Floor, Artifact, and Across the Years, plus the short novel The Voidoid. Hell has also served as editor for New York literary magazine CUZ for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and, in 1996, issued his first full-length novel, Go Now (which was also released as a spoken word CD under the same name). Hell and the former Voidoids were interviewed around this time for the excellent book Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which offered interesting insight into Hell's early years. In the late '90s, Hell began doing readings at clubs, universities, bookstores, plus other venues across the U.S. and also Europe, and also found the time to put together a gallery show of his drawings at the Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery in New York. In 2000, Hell reunited the original lineup of the Voidoids to record a new composition, "Oh," which initially appeared as a free download on a website, before being included on the 2001 compilation: Beyond Cyberpunk. --from Greg Prato, Rovi.

Kinda strange that a kid born in Kentucky brought on Punk and No Wave before the British arrived with their Sex Pistols.

Danse Macabre

2011-09-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

I love that mag. Lots of great writers, great visuals, and some amazingly creepy stuff. They published some stuff of mine back awhile. You can check out "The Punjabi Actress, Elizabeth “Baby Toons” Singh, Freaks Out in a Homeless shelter on Avenue C," in a past issue. It was written around the time of my Avenue C chapbook, but for some reason this piece didn't get included in the MS.

Micro Story

2011-09-25T00:07:00.000-07:00

I have a piece from my Cat People chapbook titled "Simple Sister." http://www.microstoryaweek.blogspot.com/ Many thanks to Steve Issack.

New Zine: Pipe Dream

2011-09-23T23:41:00.000-07:00

Check this new zine out. Some great art work and prose/poetry by such familiar names as Felino Soriano and Meg Tuite. A piece by moi titled "There Are No Cowgirls in My Sleep."

My book of poems, Fuzzy Logic, now in Nook

2011-09-20T07:41:00.000-07:00

My book of poems from Punkin' Press, Fuzzy Logic, is now at Barnes and Nobles as a Nook for only 99 cents. Hurry while the recession lasts.