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It's not InDigest, but it's kind of the same thing. Mostly just Dustin Luke Nelson talking about books.

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Math to fix gerrymandering, explained in comic

Gerrymandering doesn’t sound like an especially sexy topic, but it’s an important one to pay attention to. District lines are drawn in roundabout ways sometimes to favor a party. This u…

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These People Have Turned 'Game of Thrones' Into a Hilarious Public Access Show

To hold you over until Season 7.

Holy shit, this is hilarious. 

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I love this Game of Thrones parody. It’s like Tim & Eric meets Game of Thrones on public access. 

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When a business takes over, the artist residency basically becomes its opposite.

When the Private Sector Funds the Arts (via millionsmillions)

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This Recording of Nick Offerman Reading Mark Twain Is Almost Too Perfect

Imagine Ron Swanson is reading to you.

So good.

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Forthcoming Halloween Release!

in the office hours of the polar vortex

By Dustin Luke Nelson

A poetry collection like no other, Nelson describes the work as “dealing with the concept of cold, the distance it causes literally and figuratively, and the temporal nature of heat, as embodied in the meteorological phenomenon of the polar vortex.” Visual elements — including copy-and-paste text, masking tape, Polaroids, haunting images with plastic wrap, typewritten pages, diagrams, musical staff paper, handwritten notes, redacted text, and found text — create a sense of mystery and intrigue while making you feel like you’re snooping through the drawers of someone’s desk. The way the words sit on the page is art.

Available HERE at a pre-release discount until October 31st. See more from the book here.

Dustin Luke Nelson is the author of the chapbook “Abraham Lincoln” (Mondo Bummer, 2013). His 90-minute performance film “STRIKE TWO” debuted with Gauss PDF in April 2014 and his performance piece “Applause” debuted at the Walker Art Center’s Open Field in June 2014. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine InDigest. He has recently published work in the Greying Ghost Pamphlet Series, Fence Magazine, Paper Darts, Opium, METRO Twin Cities, 3:AM, and elsewhere. His videopoetry has been screened at Filmpoem Festival, Loft 594, Spring Break Gallery, Shoebox Gallery, the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Moving Poems, Cordite, and elsewhere. He was also a writer and producer on Radio Happy Hour and on Geocachers, a web series. His writing has also appeared on The Rumpus, Tiny Mix Tapes, Electric Literature, Bookslut, Powells, Guernica, Prefix Magazine, Thought Catalog, Rotowire, The Hockey Writers, and elsewhere. His digital self is housed at dustinlukenelson.com.                    

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InDigest editor Dustin Luke Nelson has a poetry collection out around Halloween. Pre-order it now and it get it for super cheap.

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On Sunday, I’m narrating the entirety of BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with a live score from Morricone Youth (the premiere of a new score) at the Flux Factory for their STROBE Network exhibition, all of which will be broadcast online. STROBE Network opens on Saturday and runs for through June 21.

You’ll be able to stream the event live online here or you can join us at 9pm at the Flux Factory in Long Island City. 

Performance starts at 9:15pm and no one will be admitted once the performance has started. Full details here.

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H_NGM_N #17 Reading at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop w/ Ashleigh Lambert, Amy Elizabeth Bishop, Sarah Jean Grimm, Nina Puro, and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke.

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Also a good place to place a Louis Jenkins poem.

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As good a place as any to drop a Louis Jenkins poem. 

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To be a black man in the United States of America is to be in a constant state of war and I am tired, I’m just so tired of the war. White people want me to be dangerous, scary or sexy, they never want to know who the real Etheridge is and I bet white people would like me if they could just relax and see past their fantasies of me.

Etheridge Knight, Philadelphia, 1988, quoted by CAConrad at the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog

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To be a black man in the United States of America is to be in a constant state of war and I am tired, I’m just so tired of the war. White people want me to be dangerous, scary or sexy, they never want to know who the real Etheridge is and I bet white [...]

CAConrad talks about why Kenneth Goldsmith isn’t the outlaw he’s claiming to be and why it’s little more than fleeing the issues at hand when Goldsmith claims that “the left is the new right.”

As someone interested in (only “interested in” because I’m not sure how to describe it... “moved by” at times... “bored by” at others, in equal measure, on a spectrum of some sort) conceptual art and conceptual poetry, it’s unfortunate that it’s so tightly associated with some incredibly myopic projects lately. (Myopic, kindly. Unkindly, part of the problem of privilege in America and representative of why discussions of race and privilege don’t go far enough.) 

Unfortunate, since I’d like more interesting work in this vein be foregrounded without having to be associated with projects like this. But that’s a small thing. These conversations are important and CAConrad’s piece is a nice mix of many voices, highlighting some activist poets, some outlaw poets, and very simply laying bare the bullshit of Goldsmith’s project.

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Hear Louis Jenkins read “Insects” from Nice Fish. 

This is my favorite poem in the collection. Northern Community Radio does a series of audio poems and they posted a recording of Jenkins reading the poem live, though the beeping out of “dog shit” in the poem’s final moments takes away from the poems final impact a bit. 

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We’ve launched the first episode of The Locals Show podcast. It’s a ridiculous radio comedy that takes place in a fictional town called Dinges, NY and we had Matt Pond as a special guest on the first episode. He talks about his campaign to be the Alderman of the second ward of Dinges. Take a listen above. 

We’ll be doing another live show on March 27 at BSP Kingston with Simi Stone as our guest. 

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My performance of APPLAUSE at the walkerartcenter's Open Field in June has officially been verified by guinnesswordlrecord1 (Guinness World Records) as the world record for longest applause.

Watch a time lapse video of the full performance above.

Thanks to everyone who came out to join in and the team of people who helped make it possible in the first place. 

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Rah Rah.

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The Newer York does some great things for experimental literature and they're in the final 24 hours of their Kickstarter campaign for a new issue.

They're really worth supporting. Maybe give 'em a dollar and subscribe to their newsletter if you don't know them but are interested in finding out more because it's the kind of thing you like and hopefully like to support. Help them get a little momentum going to hit their goal.

See their project here.

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On December 21, 2013, I became a father for the first time. However, I feel like I should qualify what I’m going to say before I even say it, lest I alienate ~90 percent of my audience before this essay hits sixty words. In any case, here goes: I actually never really wanted to be a father.

From joemowens' "The Terror of Fatherly Frailty."