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Luke Bloomfield (Russan Novels, 2018)

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hi west coast!! i have an announcement! next week Luke Bloomfield and i are melting on a little tour of you. we're going to be reading some poems. luke might speak a different language. i might sing a song. we're going to be reading with fabulous friends. come see us in your city!! here are some facebook events! more coming soon! 1) Seattle (March 14th, Saturday): Russian Bedtime Sprezzatura (at Raygun Lounge, 7PM, featuring Tara Atkinson and Leena Joshi) 2) Portland (March 16th, Monday): Small Pressaplalooza (at Downtown Powells, 6:30PM-9:30PM, featuring many people: John Barrios, Bruce Greif, Suzanne Burns, Jac Jemc, Luke Bloomfield, Evelyn Hampton, Kelly Schirmann, Ashley Toliver, Lauren Ireland, Alexis Orgera, Parker Tettleton, and me 3) Ashland (March 17th, Tuesday): Emergent Forms (at Schneider Museum on the SOU campus at 7PM, featuring Amy Accongio and Savannah True Randall) 4) Oakland (March 19th, Thursday): a Vouched / The Rumpus / Omni reading (at Omni Commons, 7PM, featuring Jayinee Basu, Leora Fridman, and Na'amen Tilahun) 4) Los Angeles (March 21st, Saturday): Poetic Research Bureau Presents (at the Poetic Research Bureau, 7:30PM, featuring Lucy Tiven)

#luke bloomfield #tara atkinson #leena joshi #small pressapalooza #amy accongio #savannah true randall #jayinee basu #lucy tiven #leora fridman

Russian Totems

I had a few reactions to Luke Bloomfield's Russian Novels when I first read it. You can see them now at the Black Ocean blog. I've way more to say on this book, but I plan on reading it for the rest of my life, so I'll save it for later ok?

Zach Savich wrote this review on the Kenyon Review blog of my chapbook TOTEM. It's nuts & goes:

"It’s a book I could simply quote from, telling you about “partial darkness: / not clearly one thing or another: rather / the present.” You might hear a tinge of Ashbery in those lines’ evolving articulation of precise and highly qualified partiality, and a stammer that recalls Creeley, an accumulation that ends in clear ethics that recalls Oppen…Those associations might sound overblown, but I’ve recently done some readings with Foley, so I feel all right making them."

I don't know what to say other than

"damn, dude".

I'm rarely eloquent and fear I disappoint Zach in my dumb response, but its wonderful to have a writer & mind I admire read TOTEM and respond in such an unexpected way. I really like those poems & am thankful someone else could too. Thank you Zach.

#luke bloomfield #Zach Savich #black ocean #kenyon #totem #brian foley

Maine

This past weekend Luke Wendy and I dragged our buckets up to Maine to read at a new reading series.. Our friends Michelle Christle and Derek Yorks recently bought a house by a river and put us up. They took us on a long walk, past abandoned houses, through acres of woods and blueberry barrens. I got to play with my favorite dog. That night we read in the Rock& Art shop in downtown Bangor. The place glittered with taxidermy, rocks, bones, bugs and cacti. We read next to a T Rex skull looking into the eyes of an arsenic-stuffed ostrich. And people. Everyone was kind and brought food and bought books. Afterwards we all danced at a club called Tantrum. The next day we drove back to Massachusetts and Luke and I witnessed Califone play to a small crowd at Flying Object. It was incredible. The following morning I woke up with energy. It was a beautiful day and when I went for a run I ran farther than I ever have. I didnt know why I was running so far, but while I was running I was thinking about Chelly. A few years ago she ran a marathon for an organization. She just did it. I was thinking about how much I admired her. The admiration kept me moving.