Damon

[damonv1point5]

i feel like I haven't done nearly enough with my life!  I've been to close to 20 countries, started a publishing business, work at a company that pays me a good living so I can afford to go to 20 countries, etc etc but it isn't enough! 

[damonv1point5]

Announcement

As a business owner, I want to confirm that I too, will refuse to cover contraception, as it is now my absolute right. Not because I'm religious, I'm not, I am doing it to encourage facials, anal and lesbian/gay sex. I will be sending out a company wide email shortly. thank you.

I will be covering lube and wet wipes. 

[damonv1point5]

running a press, or any business, I guess isn't all fun and games... it's not just reading awesome work from awesome writers.  Sometimes, I have to do the books (literal accounting books, not poetry books) and I start crying. 

[damonv1point5]

truest shit ever "Writers don’t often realize what it means to work with a micropress. I think it was Peter Cole who said, maybe on Facebook, that there’s nothing he can do for you as a publisher that you cannot do for yourself. When it comes with working with a micropress that’s mostly true. What you get with a micropress is, hopefully a personal experience, an editor who cares, and you get to put your book out into the world without the (unfortunate) stigma of self-publishing, without the cash outlay of self publishing, and hopefully, you will also get someone who will put some time and effort into making your book look good. You’re also going to get someone who isn’t publishing books as a full time job, so they are stretched and they will sometimes be terse in emails because e-mail requires triage–critical patients first. You have to be prepared to hustle. You have to be willing to promote your book, and do readings, and plan your own events because there’s no support staff at the micropress to do it for you."

[damonv1point5]

i have a poem in my head (when don't i) that I should write, but I feel like I shouldn't! 

And I also know that means I should write it!

[damonv1point5]

my press almost has more followers than I do. 

I don't know how to feel about that!  lol

[damonv1point5]

Choose the Sword Fish. 

[damonv1point5]

i think I lost some poems this past week!

a body without it's heart is no more than a machine soon to fade & die & i don't want that

[damonv1point5]

there is a spot inside me, soft as a summer cloud sun punching through & blanketing your skin

[ctspress]

Just finished the first of the hand made chapbooks.  The way these work is that the are limited editions.  Only 10 will be made. 

Number 1/10 goes to the author so that they can put them in a glass case somewhere.  So only 9 of those books will be available to the public. 

They cost more than the normal books, because they are handmade vs the other books, which are made by robots somewhere, in a warehouse. 

Each book will be different and awesome in their own way!

This is the handmade chapbook for “Sometimes.”  It is hardcovered 5x5 and  56 pages.  Paper is 64lbs cotton/linen blend and the book is coptic stitched

Buy Here

[damonv1point5]

on jealousy

jealousy creeps in hides under my bed feet dangling out & i sleep beautifully as he watches over me

[damonv1point5]

call

waiting for your heart to call my heart because I have all those friends and family minutes

not sure if I posted this before.   you can tell it's rough because I used the word "and" rather than my usual ampersand 

[damonv1point5]

writing related things I need to stop doing

1.  writing poems in notepad and then naming those files with random strings of characters.

2.  when I write at work, stop emailing poems to myself and/or saving them as drafts. 

the end

[silly-luv]

There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything

Luna Adriana (via silly-luv)

[kimbuur-potato]

[lovequotesrus]

Everything you love is here

[damonv1point5]

Sometimes I gotta ask myself, "what do I do it for"/ Is it to cover up the fact I'm really insecure?/ See music made it possible for me to be somebody/ So if you had to say yourself "Is my intention pure?" Am I the next Shakur? Or an attention whore?/

Am I B.I.G in this prime or am I premature/ Does anybody feel me or am I too far to reach/ Like the edge of the world, from Redondo beach

[ctspress]

Contest!

We are going to have a poetry contest real soon.  This one will have a cash prize.  So start gathering your manuscripts!  40-60 pages is ideal.   Get busy poets!