Thanks to my friends Stacio and Becky, there is now a whole slew of new video on YouTube from a feature I did last week at the Puro Slam in San Anto, Tejas. It’s one of my favorite slams in the country, and it was a good night. The quality of video isn’t killer, but […]

Tucson, Arizona, EE.UU.
Adam and I have been wondering what saint deserves some prayers every time we almost completely screw up on tour. For example, when we leave $5,000 worth of equipment sitting just off of 4th Ave. in downtown Tucson at midnight on a Sunday. What saint was responsible for us turning the van around […]

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SUBJECT:
Tucson Poetry Festival 26—Poetry and Voice
OVERVIEW:
The year 2008 marks the 26th Anniversary of Tucson Poetry Festival, the longest running event of its kind in Arizona!  Tucson Poetry Festival (TPF) was founded in 1981 with the mission to celebrate—and expand the audience for—contemporary poetry. TPF has provided people with […]

Everything is green and wet outside the train windows. Typical weather for Cornwall, they’re telling me. I’m four hours into a five-hour train trip from London, on my way to the TipofyourTongue Festival where I’ll be for the next week. “A far way to come for just a week,” a woman on the train just […]

English version here. For English-only readers.
Hola a tod@s,
Me da mucho gusto invitarles a tod@s al festival PoesíaEnVozAlta.07, que comenzará esta semana en la ciudad de México. El año pasado me quedé con ganas, no logré asistir a pesar de que presentaron unos artistas increíbles. Puede ser que éste es el festival de poesía contemporánea más […]

Yes, I am alive. Yes, there is a hurricane on either side of this country. But by the time the hurricanes reach Cuernavaca, they are long, calm, “female rains” as Emily would call them. They’ve already combed their eyelashes with the coastal trees, as Jewel would put it.
My second night back I ended up […]

So I haven’t mentioned this here yet. But I have a new project, called VERBOBALA SPOKEN VIDEO that Moisés Regla and I founded earlier this year in Cuernavaca. We use live video, experimental audio, and new media to create site-specific performance art. It’s poetry in the widest interpretation possible. Our first show was not long […]

Well, I just hopped the infamous Aeromexico flight 696–MEX->PHX–yesterday afternoon. Tonight in Flagstaff I am kicking off a 19-date, 3-state tour and would love to see you. Yes you. You who hasn’t come for a visit to Mexico yet.

Click here to see all the dates, and please help spread the word! This is going to […]

I’ll be in Arizona on Memorial Day weekend! After missing last year, I’ll be back at one of my favorite poetry events in the world (literally). The Arcosanti Slab City Slam! I’ll be performing a BRAND NEW PERFORMANCE ART PIECE ON FRIDAY NIGHT and cohosting the slam on Saturday all day. I’ll be taking a […]

Hello lovers & fighters, apes & lizards,
Good news. I’ll be back in the States for six weeks this summer, performing in Arizona and New Mexico on my way to spread the word about Mexican poetry slam at the 2007 National Poetry Slam! This means that I will get a chance to see a lot of […]