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butterfaces - get hungry

our first real recordings, out now on push & pull records (springfield, mo.) now available on bandcamp listen to it y’all  very proud of these songs and psyched to share them in a well produced format. grumpy is my favorite and the closest i’ve come to writing a song that tells the truth... but i think aging and bus stops both sound better on tape then we’ve ever played them live so thats cool as heck. 

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a new musical project. i am on bass.  listen up. 

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me and jahni playing songs as butterfaces thanks to kyle for the cool vid.  we’ll be recording some songs soon too

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Review: When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen      Chen Chen is concerned with identity. The moments of life from which it emerges fill his poems, in all their intimate and mundane domesticity as much as their poignant riots. The act itself though, is what’s truly of concern. Identifying. Identification. The tensions and resolution of words and reality, meaning and saying, the gulf between the two and the complex geography of being that contextualizes the truth of either.     It is the pure stuff of poetry. An essential piece in the rudiments of the artform. The practice of capturing in language the infinitely murky and startling brief intersections of time and space. As Ezra Pound once waxed “The function of poetry is to debunk by lucidity.” Chen’s premiere collection is nothing if not a search for this lucidity.     In this search he takes the reader through a tour of events, many repeated across multiple poems throughout the book, illustrating the act of remembering in it’s multiplicitous and rhetorical glory. He paints in personal details shaded with introspection and cross-reference, drawing ambitious connections between far-flung corporeal aspects of living and the existential exercises of becoming, and all with a flair and wit for language that advances in seamless pieces a clever and energetic mission to find the right words, to compose the right words into images and patterns capable of surpassing the illusions of truth towards a deeper and more meaningful reality.       A nest of memories build and degrade in a poem like “First Light”, revealing self-doubts, suspect intuitions, and the cursory experience of living within what becomes a collage of glimpses past.     Chen writes:     “What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?     To have forgotten the faces one first kissed?     They ask if I remember them, the aunts, the uncles,     & I say Yes it’s coming back, I say, Of course.”Of course, it is not, and it can’t.

    The search reinforces that fact. The repetitious “I say”  adding rhythm to the line, but also anxious ownership of the reaching statement “Of course.” Chen’s language is like this, clear and powerfully situated throughout, often understated but also flush with sudden sparks.      In “Kafka’s Axe and Michael’s Vest” Chen opens with the following line:     “Still winter. Snowing, still. Can it even be called action, this patience     in the form of gravity overdressed in gray?”     The stalled moment colliding with the reflection, falling back onto the facts of nature, setting the stage for a poem that becomes a meditation upon silence and speaking. An at once innate human trait, and most distinct and divisive piece of culture, language, becomes situated within the act of realizing time through the movements of nature which otherwise disregard the concept.     How does human existence work within this framework of realizing and defining through recognition of separation, how can this process ever live up to reality? These are the questions I find underlying the quick and thoughtfully composed poetry Chen reveals. His insight and observations; the images he draws of life, are poignant, fresh, and engaging. His language is bright, and appropriately swings between the ebbs of life. Above all else though, his work is a genuine and necessary search for the certain truths of life that can only be found in poetry.   Read the title poem here

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The September issue of The Thread is out and about.... read some about good ol things going on in Springfield, mo

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thread three year bday zine

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The Moon Zine is a monthly STL Mo zine  every issue is themed, this month’s is “music” so they released a mix cd with it too.  Go listen to one of my songs and one of my band butterfaces’ songs and all the other cool songs too read the heck out of this issue and all the cool photos here i <3 the moon zine

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June 2017

Springfield mo events, poetry, pride, news, art, and more.

Springfield mo events, poetry, pride, news, art, and more.

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latest copy of The Thread. out every month in springfield mo

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“Thread Cover, June 2017″

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missouri blackberries (found not made) 

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Online Lit. / Art “Magazines”

a brief guide for online publishing projects. Browse for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and more. Cheap Pop Smoking Glue Gun

Sea Foam Mag

Apt Squawk Back

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April 2017

Things to do, places to go, interview with slam poet Jessie Phoenix, house bill 632, Queer Youth Leadership Summit, and much more!!

Things to do, places to go, interview with slam poet Jessie Phoenix, house bill 632, Queer Youth Leadership Summit, and much more!

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3 recent performances with my latest music project: butterfaces = 3 unique cd-rs of new and old stuff ... this is one song online rn

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i thought this was a beautiful candy wrapper also this was a delicious coconut candy

my scanner is dirty though

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we don’t post enough. here is a preview of April’s issue (back cover by co-founder / regular contributor brie). dang we got some cool talent here. 

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<3 luv getting to help make cool things happen in springfield mo

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Over The Rainbow was a Springfield, Mo. feminist publication in the late 70′s. Published monthly, it’s content included legislative and political information, tips on business and employment, information on local events, clarion calls for the Equal Rights Amendment, reading lists, poetry, and everything else you could imagine. A beautiful artifact of 2nd Wave Feminism, and window into the ambitions and concerns of Springfield’s feminist community. It is full of striking stories. Flipping through issues you’ll see the publication detail (among many other things) how the community developed and kept up a Women’s Center (in a house near downtown Springfield, I believe near where the Chamber of Commerce is now). Creating a space to hold classes, have meetings, and grow their own feminist roots.  The June 1977 thru July 1978 issues are now housed in the info files of the Springfield-Greene County Library’s Local History Department. The Thread has taken the time to scan the front pages of all of those issues (hopefully we’ll be back with the full publications soon!!!) Please follow this link to check ‘em all out.   Any questions or comments (especially additional info about the newsletter) please get at us: [email protected]     

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Free Book Number One (implying i hope to make more of these)