poems & projects

SEPTEMBER 2008–Currently I have four major manuscript projects I am working on. The links right now take you to “Poetry Posts” but soon I will create more individualized links.

• 3:15 Experiment (mss of over 100 pages titled Love & Terror at 3:15am–Poems from the 3:15 Experiment 1993-2008). For select poems in this project, go here.

I am one of many poets around the world who have been participating in this experiment, started in 1993 by Danika Dinsmore and Bernadette Mayer. In 2005, I co-edited with Danika Dinsmore, a book of 3:15 poetry, between sleeps: the 3:15 Experiment 1993-2005. Some of these poems were perviously published in ArtLife Limited Editions.

• Shishilop Project. For poems in this project, go here.

From 8/8/08-9/9/09, I intend to travel a loop 54 times from my house, down San Jon Barranca to the ocean, follow the ocean north to the river, then return home. I am recording my observations and thoughts about people and place, and will be integrating into this epic narrative poem other voices and stories about this place, including historical, Chumash, ecological, geological.

• ArtLife Poems 1996-2004. For select poems in this project, go here.

This project collects three dozen poetry broadsides I produced for ArtLife Limited Editions Magazine.

• 50 States. For poems in this project, go here.

The 50 states are literal and metaphorical, real and imagined. Originally I intended to write or collect 50 States in 50 days but realized that was too ambitious. I’d like to have 50 States in 50 Weeks; we’ll see! I have two on my site, many drafts, and several have been submitted by other writers.

• Plus: audio/music cd with new musician Jeff Kaiser

Jeff and I have worked together before, mostly improv performances by him with 3:15 experiment poetry. I’d love to do several: We may do a 3:15 experiment cd, one for the Shiishilop project, and one which records poems from ArtLife, 50 States, and others I’ve written over the years.

POETRY