My poem, "Thin Shangdu," is just out from this week's The Nation. Pick up an issue!

Brilliant chestnuts by Joyelle McSweeney.

I will be part of an exciting Feminist conference this week. Click here for more information.

Also, a belated review of DDR. It's been around for awhile but I thought I would post it for David Lau's astute analysis. He also published a collection last April, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, which is full of demanding and subversive lyric illuminations concatenated together by explosive sounds and meditations on late capitalism. Read, especially, The Tupperware Concerto, Many Jasons, Black Line Drawing and Protest in the Philipines. My ear hairs are tickled when reading his verse.

I have new poems in Octopus magazine. Arda Collins generously wrote a sterling opening for my poems. If you haven't read her It Is Daylight, go and link that sucker into your Amazon shopping cart right this hot second!

Also, some great poems by Heather Christie, Lynn Xu, Tony Tost, and many more.

Also, I just noticed Google Books has this "common terms and phases" excerpt where they cram together a paragraph's worth of the most commonly used words in a book, enlarging the font according to the frequency in which the word's been used. It's hilarious. For my DDR, "CHIHUAHUA" is huge while "teef" is also included in teeny tiny letters. Funnier is Translating Mo'um, where the largest words are "BOX WINE."

I looked up some other friends or poets I know and noted the funnier enlarged fonts (I'm clearly procrastinating from preparing for Fall semester).

Joyelle Mcsweeney: Cockatoos Morose
David Lau: Not-Appearing-in-This-Film
Lara Glenum: Oedipus Sock Monkey
Eugene Ostashevsky: Sextus Propetius
Matthea Harvey: Terror Gazelle
Shanxing Wang: Smart Dust

"Terror Gazelle" and "Smart Dust." That is an unhealthy mix of Cheney, Disney and Philip K. Dick. Although my favorite is "Oedipus Sock Monkey." I'm going to have to go back and see how many times this phrase appears in Lara's book.

My poem, Adventures in Shangdu, is now in Conjunctions. Check it online.

The paperback version of Dance Danc Revolution will come out at the end of November. If you thought that the hardcover was too formidably priced, well now, you can buy multiple copies for friends and families!

I'm also now blogging for poetryfoundation.org. Visit and rant in the comments section.

I'm deeply saddened by the death of David Foster Wallace and have been re-reading my now faded Infinite Jest.

McSweeney's has a touching collection of memories by those who have, in some way or another, met him or known him.