Showing posts with label Jack Kerouac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Kerouac. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2022

You Can't Trust It to Remain by John Burroughs published today!

Happy National Poetry Month! I'm delighted that my new chapbook, You Can't Trust It to Remain, was published today by Between Shadows Press. Thank you, Tohm Bakelas!

Order here for $5:
https://betweenshadowspress.bigcartel.com/product/you-can-t-trust-it-to-remain-by-john-burroughs

It's a very limited edition, so you might want to grab your copy fast. The titles of the chapbook and of all its poems were derived from David Berman / Silver Jews songs. Besides my "Random Rules," which was originally published in Gasconade Review, none of these poems have appeared in print before.

Here's how I described You Can't Trust It to Remain on Goodreads:

New poems about love and loss and the inner journey. David Berman, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Merricle walk into a bar in the author's psyche and come back out somehow resembling Burroughs poems. Drink up!

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Video of the National Beat Poetry Foundation's reading commemorating Jack Kerouac's 100th birthday

On March 12th, the National Beat Poetry Foundation celebrated Jack Kerouac's 100th birthday with a reading by poets from around the world and I was privileged to be one of them. Many thanks to Debbie Tosun Kilday, Paul Richmond and Chryssa Velissariou for all they did to make this happen. Video of the event appears in four parts on the NBPF's YouTube channel:

Part 1 youtu.be/4qkQuwbTDJc
Part 2
youtu.be/4rjG8fOO3jE
Part 3
youtu.be/rJUg90rHun4 
Part 4
youtu.be/WLs0wjDSehw

I appear in Part 2 reading two poems, "The Frontier Index" and "Let's Not and Say We Did," from my new chapbook You Can't Trust It to Remain, which will be published by Between Shadows Press on April 1st (no joke).