FORTUNE 500......PLUS ONE for Brother Anselm

Joining the recently departed Chris Toll and Pope Croke is poet Anselm Hollo, who served some time in Baltimore three decades ago. I had the pleasure of working in Second Story Books, Baltimore, back in 1984 when he walked in with Andrei Codrescu. He checked out our local press section was and his gaze fell upon a tape I made with John Berndt called "Readings From Nether Lips". "Nether Lips", he said with amusement in his thick accent, "nether lips".

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FORTUNE 500......PLUS ONE
For Brother Anselm


Enumerated by calendar     (them
Sustained by pills      (me
2013's Hot New Diet Secrets        (bedsprings
Maverick is his name      (Sputnik
For all your caffeinated needs       (hoist
Please stay in control of your person     (amour or less
& so on     (fiasco
& so forth      (après bowling

"Let's see some ID here..."       (swollen foot
Lapdog or laptop      (the actual body
By the speed with which     (viral
Are we equal to the sequel?       (crowbar, flying
If nothing else     (translate
Let us be definite     (forever on the Page

by Joel Dailey

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Joel Dailey is the editor of Fell Swoop Press and author of Surprised By French Fries on Ugly Duckling Press.

Mattress In an Alley, Raft Upon The Sea Coming Soon

I am extremely proud to announce that noble and rugged Fell Swoop Press in New Orleans, run by poet Joel Dailey, is putting out a new chapbook of mine - Mattress In an Alley, Raft Upon The Sea -  very shortly unless Joel comes to his senses.

Here is an interview with poet and publisher Dailey in Harriet magazine:



Fell Swoop! An Interview with Joel Dailey, Destroyer of American Literature : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation


Mattress In an Alley, Raft Upon The Sea will be a 20 page chap chock full of new soaring absurdo-miserablism.

WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF YOU WERE IN SPACE for David Franks

WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF YOU WERE IN SPACE

for David Franks



The social fabric covering the furniture is tearing at the

   corners

Differently, indifferently

Down at the inconvenient store the visually attractive (bubble

   butts) form a conga line

Footloose or footless    there's Footlong


Help me    I'm crestfallen     & I can't get it up

Never live it downtown

Can't keep it uptown

Can't live with it    can't live without it


I left my mini-obsessions hyperventilating in the minivan

The edges of Acceptability are closing in

Closing of all exits but one

Who's robo-signing for tomorrow's Mozzarella Chunk?


All this infrastructure generated to pacify the animal within

Indispensable or indefensible

A burglary happens every 18.3 seconds here in the Land of the

   Break In

I'm trying to break out


-Joel Dailey


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JD's most recent publication is SURPRISED BY FRENCH FRIES, available from Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives in New Orleans.