DAY POEM by Mel Nichols

DAY POEM By Mel Nichols and what happens in the second episode I do not wish to be airborne like this dreaming of eggs and the Japanese flag at the end they gave us a chess set nucleus of the individual in productive tension with the collective expanse of white and here we are again at the breakfast table only eating to get to the prize and delicious agonizing hours of daytime network television city in a tiny box remembering like newspapers

B&YDog Submissions Now Closed

I have suspended publication of Blue & Yellow Dog as of Issue 10 which is on line and available in print right now. Issue 10 will be final issue. So submissions are no longer being considered. Please do not send any. All 10 issues will remain on line in perpetuity. I want to thank all of those who submitted work and made B&YDog what it is. I am very proud of the work published in the 10 issues which cover the life of B&YDog. My appreciation to the 800 to 1,000 followers/readers of the zine every issue. I will miss reading new work and the thrill of being in on such terrific efforts as put forth by the myriad of poets whose work found their way into each issue. Someday I hope to begin a new publishing venture. Until then All the best, Raymond Farr, editor of Blue & Yellow Dog

Blue & Yellow Dog Submissions Now Open!

Hi all. As you have probably realized from the title of this post, Blue & Yellow Dog is now accepting submissions for future issues. Just pop 3-5 poems (longer ones ok) into a Word doc, rtf, or PDF and attach them to an email (don't forget bio): warholaray1@embarqmail.com I am open to surreal, Language Poetry, New Writing, Prose poems, anything postmodern or experimental, even some less avant garde stuff but I am not likely to publish rhyme. So load up on paper and pens and start writing yr brains out. Published poems will appear both on line and in a print issue. Sorry, I cannot offer to compensate poets. I only offer a chance at glory. The print issues will be available to the public at cost. For a peek at past issues visit: http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com I look forward to reading yr work. All the best Raymond Farr, editor Blue & Yellow Dog

NEW POEM UP AT REM

The editors over at REM are doing some fine publishing of late. They publish both on line and a print issue of experimental poetry. Check out my poem at http://remmagazine.net/2012/06/16/the-kansas-of-english-raymond-farr/ I also have a second poem published on line there. The link is http://remmagazine.net/2011/12/06/a-mania-for-mirages-in-which-a-phrase-is-an-ice-cream-raymond-farr/

Latest Publications to Exhibit Farr's Work!

Hi all I have two new sites publishing poems by me: Gobbet Mag and Mad Hatters Review Issue 13. Check em out!

Latest Otoliths Is On Line

Mark Young's Otoliths is now on line. For those of you who aren't familiar with the zine, it hails out of Australia but reads like an international list of who's who of poets, artists, writers. Check it out.

Caliban On Line #7 has just gone viral. It has a lot of great poetry.
Take a moment and enjoy each syllable, word, line.

Also take a peek at Blue & Yellow Dog #8.
There is work too bold to imagine in this issue!
You have to see it for yrself!

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

Otoliths 21 Is Out

After 5 productive years Otoliths is still getting the poetry job done. It is bigger & better than ever.

Visit http://the-otolith.blogspot.com

I have two poems in the issue and that would be a good place to start the reading:

http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2011/03/raymond-farr-investigating-future-tense.html

Homage to Homage to the Imagination*

One night I sailed off

So long Wynken, Blynken, & Nod

So long zoppa

Farewell [ ]

So long [ ]

The waters of no more pain
Are found within this

Or so cried the stars to
French poet Charles Baudelaire

A dream poem
From breakfast on

In fact an improved version of

A Dutch picture
Which [ ] read aloud

In fact a nod to Surrealism

The year 1869
The year 2007

& which zoppa quoted—

A delightful little
Episode
One night
Among my friends—

But don’t be fooled
This is a detail read aloud

It might be gloomy—

A lovely bedtime

A small sampling
Entitled simply

A good poem—

But oh how classically fun

To stop, pause, take a step
& salute the dream land

In this version
It walks parallel

Giving a nod
To Octavio Paz




* Source of text was a Google key word search of the phrase: “Nod poems.”

Indefinite Space Has Appeared on the Horizon

The poems in Indefinite Space 2010/2011 Vol XIX are meticulously selected and ordered by editor Marcia Arrieta and the reader is taken along for the ride of his or her mental life. John C. Goodman, John M Bennett & Sheila E Murphy, Anne Gorrick, Felino Soriano, and Raymond Farr are just a few of the poets exhibited in this fine anthology. To purchase $7 a single issue or $12 per subscription for two issue, visit www.indefinitespace.net

Psychic Meatloaf #3 Is Published

I am proud to say I have work published in issue #3 of Psychic Meatloaf.
It is an exciting publication and worth buying. Of course I am prejudice, having two poems included in the ranks of such poets as Rob Cook, Shane Allison, Felino Soriano, and David Tomaloff just to name a few of the terrific poets and artists whose vision gives Psychic Meatloaf its wonderful aura.

To view samples and purchase visit www.psychicmeatloaf.com

I Have a New Ebook Out from Chalk Editions: chainge

My latest effort chainge is an ebook published by Chalk Editions
Visit the site.
There are many good books to be found there
& they're all free!
You can download, print, or just enjoy!

Blue & Yellow Dog Issue 4 Spring Is Up!

The latest issue of Blue & Yellow Dog has surfaced close to shore.
Periscope up!

But that's not all...

The most curent print issue (which contains both issues 3 & 4)
will be available sometime in the next few days.

Just go to Blue & Yellow Dog Book Shop at Blue & Yellow Dog web site.
There is a link on the page that takes you to all B&YDog books.

Hope you all are doing fine.

& as always submissions are welcome

Please submit as a single Word doc or PDF attachment to email
and send to

warholaray1@embarqmail.com

In the meantime have a great springtime!