Archive for May, 2009
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Rattle #31, Summer 2009 Now Available
If you haven’t noticed, the summer issue of Rattle is now available. There are two posts I wanted to make about it, but I don’t have time right now — I’m driving up to San Francisco right now to read with Joel Tan tonight at Moe’s Books (see event list). So for the moment I’ll [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Monday, May 18th, 2009
BookMark Review of AmFrac by Marjorie Maddox
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
The above review appeared last Wednesday on WPSU, NPR’s central Pennsylvania affiliate. The clip is from BookMark, a weekly book reviews show. This is just, I think, the second review of the book to reach the public, and the first time my name’s ever been mentioned on the radio.
The [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in american fractal, audio by Tim
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Batting Average on Balls in Play
The party last night was great — I’m not a party person, but we made it out alive, without crying in a corner or spilling beer on a rare book, so chalk it up as a win. I didn’t think to bring a camera, so there will be no pictures, unless Red Hen posts them [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in insipid industriosity, random riff-raff by Tim
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Advertising Week
Apparently it’s advertising week at TG.org — no real content here, just some things worth pointing to…
A few weeks ago Red Hen Press went live with their new website, which is a tremendous upgrade from the old version. I’m of the mind that a website is central to any business these days, particularly the poetry [...]
No Comments » - Posted in random riff-raff by Tim
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
15th Anniversary Party with Rattle & Red Hen
I should have made a post about this earlier, but I’ve been sending emails to local message boards and our mailing lists, and I’m not really sure if there’s anyone left in the area that still hasn’t heard about it.
But this Thursday is Rattle’s 15th anniversary party, a big bash we’re throwing with Red Hen [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Post in Which I Explain Once and For All What Makes American Fractal a Fractal
Yesterday I gave a new (for me) example of what fractals are — objects for which scale is irrelevant, because the same patterns repeat over and over again regardless of scale. Viewed from above, a photograph of a barren desert could be a mile wide or a meter, and there’s no way to tell the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in american fractal by Tim
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Fractilic Landscapes
Yesterday afternoon I recorded an interview for KPFK’s Poet’s Cafe with Lois P. Jones, which will air in a couple months (obviously I’ll let you know when it’s scheduled). As I was sitting in the studio, babbling into the big padded mike about fractals for what seems like the hundredth time this month, I had [...]
