Check out issue 7 of Blue & Yellow Dog

It is chock full of great poems, including work by:
Anton Frost, David Woodruff, harry k stammer, Michael O'Brien, Corey Mesler, Lee Marc Stein, Peter Ganick, Carl Grindley, Walter Ruhlmann, Cortney Bledsoe, Tyson Bley, Ben Nardolilli, Valentina Cano, Matthew B. Dexter, Larry O. Dean, Neil Ellman, Les Wicks, Randy Brooks, Michael Lee Johnson, Howie Good, Evan Carr, John Pursch, & John McKernan.

I am very happy and proud of the issue.

I am always reading, there is no "reading period".

Just submit yr work as a single Word doc or rtf or PDF email attachment and send it to me atwarholaray1@embarqmail.com

I will be glad to take a gander at it

For those of you interested in buying hard copies of back issues of B&YDog
Visit the B&YDog Book Shop, I have discounted the prices

Hope you all have a safe and wonderful xmas season.

Samples from There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us

from: There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us

The sales pitch

of thunderous manias

begs one more text

be read

askew

the likes of which

is market day.






"YOU'VE ALMOST CONVINCED ME.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS CITY(I. E. FOOT OF THE CLIFF.)

ARE THERE LOVERS?

EXISTENCE IS MY SUBJECT IS HOLLOW."





In the cause of tireless waltzers

there are no things but things that are named.

I call this “photograph”

& this “sheik”

& this “cabal.”

In view of: The History of Chinese Art…after Two Minutes

in the Washing Machine, 1987,

books, wooden box,

and glass

(now destroyed),

I protested

& became sexual.







"YES.YES.BUT I NEED TO KNOW YOUR MOVIE PLOTS

ARE MORE THAN JUST SCRIPTED. I WANT A NORMAL

LIFE IN VAIN OR IN TEXAS NEAR OK BORDER. BUT

DON’T SAY IT WRITE IT ON PAPER FOR GOD SAKE.

DAFFY DUCK IS IN A POEM AND I THINK IT’S GREAT

HE’S GETTING SUCH FLUENT EXPOSURE. HOW DOES

THIS EFFECT MY CASE IN TEMPO IF YOU ARE NOT

A PAGE A WILD SWAN AT COOLE THE SORROW

OF LOVE THE PITY OF LOVE?”








I squander verbatim

at heart a narrative or beautiful run-on sentence.

I lift up “conch” to my ear.






"DESCRIBE LIFTING CONCH TO YOUR EAR."






I hear the maestro

(meaning Key West / meaning circumstance)

& Oceana smooth & nude in six reluctant similar scarves.






"YES. THE EXCEPTIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL.

A PRELUDE TO A DELUGE INTERPRETS NOTHING

CONCLUSIVE. WRITING IS LIVING IN POETIC FORM

IS A TRAGIC LINE."

There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us by Raymond Farr

My latest collection of new poetry, There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us (Blue & Yellow Dog Press 2011), is a product of paring down lines and stanzas into something akin to one-page, pseudo-minimalist, crack-pot-god-like portraits of what I imagine to be the essence of faces, personae, effectively honoring DaDa in all its surrealist, absurdist (yet chockfull of formalist notions gleaned from Language Poetry) postmodernist flux. The book's diction borders on hallucinatory while each poem's meaning resides in the experience of "experiencing" each poem. I think you'll like this one. Just click on the link above and check out some samples.

Sean Ulman's Review of ECSTATIC/.of facts in elimae

Check out Sean Ulman's review of ECSTATIC/.of facts in the poetry journal phenom elimae. Sean Ulman does as good a job as any at dissembling the unraveling that is ECSTATIC/.of facts.

ECSTATIC/.of facts by Raymond Farr Is Now Available at Otoliths Books

My latest book of poetry, ECSTATIC/.of facts, has just been published by Mark Young at Otoliths Books. I hope you will take time to review it. I think he has done a wonderful job with cover, printing, etc. Here is the link http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/ecstaticof-facts/16067593

In other news: I have a longish poem in REM No 2 which is out now and available for free on line. It may also be purchased as a print issue. The link is http://remmagazine.net/sieverts-issues/

& check out Cricket On Line Review: www.cricketonlinereview.com/vol7no1/

This Isn't History, It's an Episode

My story is pretty simple—

Because I couldn’t finish a novel
My life begins

In a nation that does not exist yet

The icon & I weren’t personally close
Our family fled their orchards—

From medieval kabbalists
To 20th century refugees—

Our fury seems particularly apparent here

In a nation that does not exist yet

Where actors are hired to read scripts
& pretend
To be real people

My uncle told me—

This week’s parasha introduces a medium
For distinguishing truth
From falsehood—

That was my life

I was giving up
I was going back home

My uncle told me—

On the radio, things aren’t so simple

Leaving the icon to believe
One of two things—

A river was there
& it had two banks

Try Submitting to 'Pider, A New Poetry/Art Mag

raymond,


me and a friend are propping up an online journal under the title of 'Pider, and I am hoping you may be able to somehow spread that tid-bit of information around to those who would be interested. we are looking for puncher's fists, lost infantries of troops, hungry sleep.


one may send submissions of text, art, .mp3's... to: Piderbits@gmail.com


what do ya think?


mj