Gutter Eloquence

Very excited to say that two pieces of mine, "Dog Logic" and "Every bed is a deathbed" will be in the next issue of Gutter Eloquence.

Underground Voices

two poems up now in one of my favorites zines on the net, Undergound Voices. find the poems here.

decomP

I just got a short story "how do I look?" accepted for the July issue of decomP, a really great online lit zine. I've been reading decomP for a while now and it's really exciting to be included in their magazine. Check out the zine here. I'll post a link to the story when it's up.

Persephonous Blue

A piece of mine titled "a soft-ass motherfucker" will be in the first issue of Persephonous Blue. Blue is a new literary zine of raw confessional poetry run by Janice Brabaw. Check out the website here.

Underground Voices

Really excited that two pieces of mine "the man in line in front of me at the pawn shop" and "morning traffic" will be in the June issue of Underground Voices.

Six Sentences

I have a short prose piece up at a really cool site called Six Sentences. You can find it here.

The Exuberant Ashtray

Excited to say my piece "Guts" is in the new issue of The Exuberant Ashtray - zine of Rob Plath. Check it out here.

Leaf Garden

Proud to say three poems will appear in the first issue of Leaf Garden, a new zine from Leaf Garden Press run by editors Robert Louis Henry and Melanie Brown - both poets I enjoy a lot. The poems are "old jazz records" "if ever you wake" and "the american night terror." I'm excited about this coming out, these two are great and I think they're going to put out a great zine.

The Thin Edge Of Staring

The great guys at Epic Rites just put a poem of mine "blood ivory grin" up at their e-zine The Thin Edge Of Staring, a zine that explores artists and the creative process. You can check out the poem here.

Opium Poetry

Opium Poetry is a blogzine run by Ross Vassilev, who is a really great poet. He put a poem of mine titled "a little bit burned" on it. check it out here.

Heroin Love Songs

Very excited to say my poem "knife blade sandwiches" is in Volume 6 of Heroin Love Songs. I love this zine (which you can find here).

The print edition of the zine is available as a free pdf here at lulu. There will also be an online version of it, but that won't be up for a few days - so I will update with the link to that when it is available online.

Gutter Eloquence 3

Issue 3 of Gutter Eloquence is up and running feat. one poem by me in it. Issue 3 Here!!

Zygote In My Coffee

Proud to say two piece of mine "Somewhere, A Future Poet Sleeps" and "Raindrop Symphony" can be found in issue #116 of Zygote In My Coffee. Check It Out!

Gloom Cupboard

New issue of Gloom Cupboard is here with a poem reading neruda by me in it. Check it out.

tiny buddha

there's a
tiny buddha
on top
of my pen
to remind
me that
life is suffering
as if
the ink
wasn't doing
that already

body scrapings

after i
shower
w/ my body
still wet
i like to
scrape the
dead skin
off my
ankles

i like to
feel the
body shavings
flake off
and crumble
under my
fingernails

it reminds
me of
death
constantly
clawing away
at my soul
like a
cheese grater

but under
the dead
is a
fresh layer
of skin
to stop
death from
finishing me
off

this
poem
is
a
layer
of
new
skin

Upcoming

I've been neglecting this blog.
Sorry.
Just want to update and let everyone know about upcoming zine appearances.

Both of the zines at Epic Rites: Lines Written W/ A Razor and The Thin Edge Of Staring will have me in their upcoming issues. Lines will be printing two of mine "Black Coffee" and "In the front row for Armageddon", and Thin Edge will be using one of mine "ink & seed" sometime soon - but it's published on a rolling basis so I will post it when it's on there. Huge fan of these guys, these zines, and their press. Check out Epicrites.org and support them.

Rob Plath's zine The Exuberant Ashtray will be using one titled "guts" in his next issue. I'm excited about it as I'm a huge fan of Robs. Awesome dude, Awesome zine.

"Children, Churches, and Daddies", a really cool magazine, will be using the poem "saving lives" in their December 09 issue, but it should be available online soon. As soon as it is, I'll post the link.

until next time
seacrest out

A poem on my 23rd birthday

between the time
i went to sleep last night
and when i woke up this morning
not much changed
the economy is still in shambles
i am still broke
my bills are still due
people are still homeless
men and women are still dying
in the name of invisible men in the sky
women are still getting raped
all the bullshit humans inflict on each other
is still going on
nothing is different or special about today
except my wallet felt a little thicker
under my ass
as i drove to work this morning.

Slayer

A
vampire
lives
in
me.

I
kill
him
every
time
I
stab
a
pen
through
my
heart.

Aftertaste

my
lips
taste
best
when
they
taste
like
your
lips