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New poem of mine in Wunderkammer

Check out this ebook made by artist/writer/designer/photographer Topher McCulloch from some very old poems of mine. I guess Topher made this a couple years ago, but I didn't know about it until today.

( Wherein I talk about the poems and about other things I was doing in college )

Anyway. About the ebook. I like it a lot, and I'm now deeming it the official version of Spacetime Flexpass from now until eternity. Topher left out a few poems, most of which I'm grateful for him leaving out because they're kind of embarrassingly bad. He also left one out that's embarrassingly good, "Spacetime Intervals," which made me a finalist for the AWP fellowship. But that's okay because that poem is in Luke, Don't Settle (my Morpo Press chapbook), so Harmon completists have already read it.

I'm also glad that Topher largely ignored my linebreaks, not because all of my linebreaks were stupid (many of them were), but because they would have overly weighted down the electronic book experience. This really is its own thing, and is very effective as such.

I like looking at things I wrote a long time ago, even when they're not very good. Sometimes I laugh at them being not very good, and sometimes I laugh at myself for still sometimes trying to pull off ten-year-old tricks. But this thing I wrote a long time ago stands alone because other people took it and did neat things with it. It doesn't really feel like my thing anymore, which is awesome.

I just got my copies in the mail of you are here, with my poem "The Charles Johnson Projection." I haven't read much of the journal yet, but the look of the thing is great.

505 Poetry Series
Second Monday of the month
Boxcar Playhouse, 505 Natoma St, San Francisco

8 PM
minimum donation $7

April 14, 2008
Poetry by Daphne Gottlieb
Poetry by Jack Morgan
Music: Steven Clark's Amok Time

( bios )

Speaking of "White Lake," you can read it in the new issue of Mike Young's NOO Journal.

Tonight! Come see me read in Berkeley at Pegasus Books!

7:30 PM
http://www.pegasusbookstore.com/

Please come. I'll be sad if nobody comes.

Tomorrow the Perpetual Motion Roadshow #41 hits San Francisco!

Wednesday, March 21
7:30 PM
Modern Times Books
888 Valencia St
San Francisco

FREE!

featuring...

JoAnn Riedl, who plays dirty rock guitar in dirty Milwaukee.
Norman Cristofoli, who spits poems and organizes artists in Toronto.
Cindy Emch, who spins words, records, and queer open mics in SF.
and Patrick Duggan, who lifts large objects and throws down large words in SF.
Hosted by Elliot Harmon, who writes reductive one-sentence summaries of people's livelihoods.

( bios )

Starts at 7:30 PM sharp. Don't show up late.

This Wednesday in Berkeley:

Steve Smart	Elliot Harmon

STARRY PLOUGH. 3101 Shattuck. 510-841-2082.
(1 block uphill of Ashby BART).
8:30-11pm. Sign-ups: 7:30. All ages before 9pm.
$150 Cash Prizes. $7 door, $5 students w/I.D.
http://www.berkeleypoetryslam.com
Contact: voluptuary @ hotmail.com


This Friday-Saturday in San Francisco:

24-Hour Reading, 6 PM to 6 PM
Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, 1111 8th St, SF
Elliot will be reading at 3 AM.

If you miss either of these shows, then I totally heard that you have a gross ingrown toenail.

Peeps,

If you're bored tonight, some hear me read with some other awesome people. The reading is at Bird & Beckett in San Francisco. I've never been, but Google Maps suggests that it's mere steps away from the Glen Part BART.

I hope all is well,
Elliot

I'm reading on Saturday at California College of the Arts, with Francesca Myman and Heather O'Neill.

Believe it or not, self-promoting always feels so icky to me, especially among friends. If you're able to make it, it will mean an awful lot to me. It's free and short.

( flyer )

...Perpetual Motion Roadshow #37...
featuring:

recovering slam poet
ELLIOT HARMON
from San Francisco!

irreverent guitarist
OCHO
from Minnesota!

zine-making punk
DAVE FRIED
from Chicago!

( bios )

Chicago: Sat. Oct. 14, 7 pm. Quimby's (1854 W. North Ave.)
Cincinnati: Sun. Oct. 15, 4 pm. Hobo Books (404 Hamilton Ave.)
Cleveland: Mon. Oct. 16, 7 pm. Mac's Backs (1820 Coventry Rd.)
New York City: Wed. Oct. 18, The Lucky Cat (245 Grand Street, Williamsburg) w/ poet Jack Wiler!
Montreal: Thurs. Oct. 19, 8 pm. Bibliograph/eZine Library, Toc Toc Cafe (6091 Avenue du Parc)
Ottawa: Fri. Oct. 20, 8:30 pm. venus envy (320 Lisgar St.) w/ snazzy word-tamer Luna Allison!
Toronto: Sat. Oct. 21, 8 pm. Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St. E.) w/ loudmouth Italian poet Valentino Assenza!

In October, I will be doing a one-week stint with Perpetual Motion Roadshow.

10/14: Chicago
10/15: Cincinnati
10/16: Cleveland
10/17: New York
10/18: New York
10/19: Montreal
10/20: Ottawa
10/21: Toronto

More details as they become existent.

Over a year ago, Marcus, Patrick, and I started a poetry website. The framework was all there, and we even started putting poems up.

And then, well, nothing happened. It just sat there, acting like it never stopped being May 2005.

Well, we're doing again, for reals this time. Send us poetry. Please.

Idiolexicon

We even have one of those livejournal feed thingies: idiolexicon

You should all be subscribed to the Indiefeed Poetry Show by now, it being a great source for amazing spoken word and overambitious publicity photos.

But if you're not, what better time to start than when there's a poem by me on it?

Lisa Buscani, Taylor Mali, Marc Smith, Gary Glazner, Jack McCarthy, Patricia Smith, Ragan Fox, Mike McGee, Steve Marsh, Jared Paul, Elliot Harmon.

If there isn't something funny about that list to you, then thanks.

Check me out on the Indiefeed Poetry Channel.

In other internet poetry developments, check out Johnmark Huscher's very impressive-looking new website.

Chex it out. I have poems in the new installment of Diagram.

Happy new year. I'll write more later.

Elliot reads at the Marin Poetry Center!

On Thursday, November 17, I will be reading at the Marin Poetry Center in San Rafael, in a reading entitled Promising Young Poets. It would mean a lot to me if you all came.

Here's the info, yo.

I've done lots of Slams and open mics and performances of various sorts, but I've never really done a reading. Like, a reading reading. I'm hugely honored that they invited me, and also a little terrified. So come share it with me. Don't make me beg.

The big finale

Tonight I'll be in Sedona. Tomorrow night I'll be in Mesa. After that, I'll be taking a nap.

( flyers )

The tour so far:

9/8: Grand Forks, ND
9/14: Duluth, MN
9/19: Lincoln, NE
9/20: Des Moines, IA
9/22: Marshalltown, IA
9/25: University of South Dakota
9/28: Iowa City, IA
9/29: Vermillion, SD
10/4: Ames, IA
10/6: Omaha, NE (Mick's)
10/8: Omaha, NE (Slam)
10/16: Denver, CO
10/19: Albuquerque, NM
10/23: Prescott, AZ
10/24: Flagstaff, AZ
10/26: Sedona, AZ
10/27: Flagstaff, AZ

Some of the holes are there intentionally. Some aren't and might become smaller soon.

Elliot features at Bistro Yoffi's Battle of the Bay

Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Sacramento, and Harmon.

Bistro Yoffi, 2231 Chestnut St. (btwn Pierce & Scott, SF Marina Dist.), 415-885-5155.

This Tuesday, July 12, 8pm. Be there. It's free.

Hosted by Kat Sanford (mskittieface), who turns 24 today.