tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121413232024-03-07T04:20:49.342-05:00Slicker Chumway'sBack on Crack!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-53802938596974332052010-07-28T09:00:00.000-04:002010-07-28T09:00:18.605-04:00Cradle Book Virtual Book Tour Stop 1: My Chair<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IVQA3NKj2hI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IVQA3NKj2hI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />
Welcome to my virtual book tour! I wasn't able to embark on an actual book tour to promote my new collection of stories and fables, <i>Cradle Book</i>, just published by <a href="https://www.boaeditions.org/bookstore/cradle-book.html">BOA Editions</a> (please buy it--please, please, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-American-Readers-Morgan-Teicher/dp/1934414352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280321869&sr=8-1">print</a> or as a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Book-Stories-American-ebook/dp/B003F24EXE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1280321869&sr=8-2">Kindle E-book</a>), so I decided I'd stage this little virtual tour, reading a few fables from various places around my house. Here's the first stop--my favorite chair! Each video features one fable. Thanks for watching!<br />
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"The Prisoner"<br />
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"The Story of the Stone"<br />
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See you at the next stop...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-20389740931621252182010-07-26T19:58:00.001-04:002010-07-26T19:58:17.683-04:00This Game Is Ruining Me<br /><br /><br /><a href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/07/26/2033.jpg'><img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/07/26/s_2033.jpg' border='0' width='246' height='248' align='left' style='margin:5px'></a><br />This is Angry Birds, an iPhone and iPad app where you shoot birds out of a slingshot at green pigs, but you probably know that because it's like the third most popular game in the app store and you have an iPhone and can't stop playing it either. It's all I do. I don't read or talk or anything, and I'm still trying to beat the first group of levels cause I suck at video games. <br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-32137383316083055982010-07-26T11:39:00.000-04:002010-07-26T11:39:54.007-04:00My Q&A with Thomas Sayers Ellis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaulbQy2CFboKj6dTqrdF5_TupIjEf93SSo11uXwx2pVnlm2A5oHHxKS2HbGykTptA1uYMJ0opkDf_O7q2e_cvSRjO1GDmT46pH46P8tbTNbL2eE0ziEX9u7BbLwEIh1HSZqU/s1600/tsellis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaulbQy2CFboKj6dTqrdF5_TupIjEf93SSo11uXwx2pVnlm2A5oHHxKS2HbGykTptA1uYMJ0opkDf_O7q2e_cvSRjO1GDmT46pH46P8tbTNbL2eE0ziEX9u7BbLwEIh1HSZqU/s1600/tsellis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGaulbQy2CFboKj6dTqrdF5_TupIjEf93SSo11uXwx2pVnlm2A5oHHxKS2HbGykTptA1uYMJ0opkDf_O7q2e_cvSRjO1GDmT46pH46P8tbTNbL2eE0ziEX9u7BbLwEIh1HSZqU/s320/tsellis.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvM0U4ljAnB-KRCkA8H_OjaPvf_zMXTNG4F7f-0sVR7ucaUEibz-kNuNTcdNRFTMX4QZkKo6yf0UD6dsdZHbTtOVOV95Cz6ng4XMk-1SJ_PNiZ4lE86qt6rcBMiHFT3yFfcQA/s1600/skin-inc.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvM0U4ljAnB-KRCkA8H_OjaPvf_zMXTNG4F7f-0sVR7ucaUEibz-kNuNTcdNRFTMX4QZkKo6yf0UD6dsdZHbTtOVOV95Cz6ng4XMk-1SJ_PNiZ4lE86qt6rcBMiHFT3yFfcQA/s320/skin-inc.JPG" /></a></div>Thomas Sayers Ellis second book, <i>Skin Inc.,</i> is coming from Graywolf in September. It's wild, very complicated, and will make you feel conflicted feelings about the state of black identity in America. I did <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/43945-identity-repair-poet-pw-talks-with-thomas-sayers-ellis.html">a Q&A with Thomas for today's issue of PW, and here it is</a>, along with a link to the PW review.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-71957360953941293872010-07-26T09:26:00.000-04:002010-07-26T09:26:40.486-04:00My Virtual Cradle Book Book Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmj87qHY-9eY-538fynFJzS2se2Hdynm56OGc9g9JFaDKEswPym38SUdOtm5TcmiQ57WMqZkYNm3OvbGqcZX6w1GLQ2O0qZR04becgp6miWeO5ZxBimRpyxgJj4068M2c7DFX8/s1600/cradle-book.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmj87qHY-9eY-538fynFJzS2se2Hdynm56OGc9g9JFaDKEswPym38SUdOtm5TcmiQ57WMqZkYNm3OvbGqcZX6w1GLQ2O0qZR04becgp6miWeO5ZxBimRpyxgJj4068M2c7DFX8/s320/cradle-book.JPG" /></a></div>As you may or may not know, my second book, a collection of stories and fables called <i>Cradle Book</i> (available in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-American-Readers-Morgan-Teicher/dp/1934414352/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280150172&sr=8-2">print</a> and in a Kindle-exclusive--how controversial of me--<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Book-Stories-American-ebook/dp/B003F24EXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1280150172&sr=8-1">e-book</a> edition) was just published by BOA Editions. The demands of fatherhood having basically prevented me from embarking on an ambitious book tour, or even a small one, for which I feel bad, not just because I'm depriving you of the awesome experience of my readings, but because BOA did me the great good turn of bringing out the book, and I owe it to them to promote the darn thing. Plus, I like reading--it's the last vestige of performance in my life (I did comedy once a upon a time, you see).<br />
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So, I've decided to borrow some tricks from <a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com/2008/02/dear-quinz-the-tour-is-back/">Dorothea Lasky, who conduced her virtual Tiny Tour for her first book</a>, and from some v<a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/ipad/egalleys_on_ipad_an_ebooknewser_video_review_157288.asp">ideo reviews I did for eBookNewser</a>, and do my own little virtual book tour. <br />
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Here's the plan: I'll post probably three ten-minute readings--three is enough, I think--in which it'll just be me reading stories from <i>Cradle Book</i>. If anyone bothers to tune it, I think it'll be a smashing success. If not, I'll still have fun making the videos. I'll try to keep 'em lively. These events will be BYOWAC (bring-your-own-wine-and-cheese). I'll try to post the first one tonight or tomorrow. More info and/ or a reading coming soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-39466178318995461022010-07-26T07:21:00.001-04:002010-07-26T07:21:51.350-04:00John Taggart's New and Selected<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gtdfgYKXJTi1fkE7U_FXy0TccAGl0pujOiLy3PyoNVlw6TJcFAnYTREg17wC8PaleYIN1cpb6YxcbQ0r2m8XQwajQW7MXrFd3i7qFm3_PGTFhOuHSYijRFYUverM7ac1GgBP/s1600/taggart.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gtdfgYKXJTi1fkE7U_FXy0TccAGl0pujOiLy3PyoNVlw6TJcFAnYTREg17wC8PaleYIN1cpb6YxcbQ0r2m8XQwajQW7MXrFd3i7qFm3_PGTFhOuHSYijRFYUverM7ac1GgBP/s320/taggart.JPG" /></a></div>Wow. I haven't posted on this blog for over a year. Much of that year has been spent working as a paid blogger, so I guess I had my blogging fix. I'm still blogging for work, but now, back at PW, I edit our new blog <a href="http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/">PWxyz</a>. But maybe here I'll write a bit about some poetry and nonfic books I'm looking forward to.<br />
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But, on to the cover to the left. This is an upcoming book I'm quite excited about. John Taggart is a poetry stalwart, having plugged away in the trenches of poetry for decades, taking off from Oppen and finding his own way toward a kind of ambient pastoral poetry that's somewhere between Oppen and Bronk. Flood Editions did has last couple of books, and then, surprisingly, Copper Canyon signed him on for this selected poems, <i><a href="http://www.cbsd.com/inventory.aspx?id=1676311">Is Music</a>, </i>which is a monumental book. I say it's ambient, meaning the poems don't exactly begin or end, or quite conclude. So to have so many of them together really makes them work, like turning off all the lights and putting on an Eno album. And what a stunning cover! The book was supposed to pub in May but has been delayed, so it's not quite out yet, but should be in stores soon. Look out for it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-12097564603808092392009-07-06T07:43:00.001-04:002009-07-06T07:44:46.329-04:00The App Boom Hits PublishingCheck out my article on how mobile phone apps are changing the publishing business, in today's PW.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-59687804628831975402009-06-24T19:55:00.000-04:002009-06-24T19:58:36.292-04:00albums in heavy rotationFOLK ART by Joe Lovano Us Five<br/>SOLAS by Masada Quintet feat. Joe Lovano<br/>FROM A COMPOUND EYE by Robert Pollard<br/>MOON: LIVE by Robert Pollard<div class="iblogger-footer"><br clear="all"/><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">[Posted with <a href="http://illuminex.com/iBlogger/index.html">iBlogger</a> from my iPhone]</p><br/></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-13988426214948553302009-06-01T21:43:00.003-04:002009-06-01T21:43:55.926-04:00A Profile of Novelist Chandler BurrHere's my profile of Chandler Burr, author of YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU, a new novel I'm very excited about: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6661549.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-20455898646490595352009-05-18T07:23:00.001-04:002009-05-18T07:24:12.899-04:00Twitter and PublishingA story I wrote for Publishers Weekly about how Twitter is changing the publishing business.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-49879688314742031482009-04-25T22:56:00.000-04:002009-04-25T22:58:14.128-04:00laid offI was laid off from PW but am still editing PW's poetry section and doing a hell of a lot of freelance reviewing. <div class="iblogger-footer"><br clear="all"/><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">[Posted with <a href="http://illuminex.com/iBlogger/index.html">iBlogger</a> from my iPhone]</p><br/></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-82978382873717101132009-04-06T14:45:00.003-04:002009-04-06T14:53:37.275-04:00Me on FSG's Poetry Month BlogFSG's Alyson Sinclair interviewed me for the Farrar, Strauss & Giroux poetry month blog about my work as poetry editor at PW and on the board of the NBCC.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-14654197133620734862009-03-31T16:50:00.001-04:002009-03-31T16:51:35.503-04:00Daniel Mendelson's CavafyI'm very excited about this book. See why:<div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Che Fece…Il Gran Rifiuto<o:p></o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">For certain people there comes a day<br />when they are called upon to say the great Yes<br />or the great No.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s clear at once who has<br />the Yes within him at the ready, which he will say<br /><br />as he advances in honor, in great self-belief.<br />He who refuses has no second thoughts. Asked<br />again, he would repeat the No.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And nonetheless<br />that No—so right—defeats him all his life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>--C.P. Cavafy, trans. by Daniel Mendelsohn</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-65831814350342168352009-03-27T07:09:00.003-04:002009-03-27T07:13:21.331-04:00A Profile of Poet-Critic Stephen BurtPoet-critic Stephen Burt has a new book of essays, <span style="font-style: italic;">Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry. </span>I wrote <a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/books/72678/could-be-verse">a profile</a> about him and the book for my annual National Poetry Month roundup in Time Out New York. There are also t<a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/books/72679/dive-into-poetry-month-with-three-new-books">hree tiny reviews of new poetry books</a> by Rae Armantrout, Matthew Dickman and Sasha Steensen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-77877663584103350012009-03-14T07:17:00.003-04:002009-03-14T08:21:39.676-04:00Albums in Heavy RotationINNER URGE, Joe Henderson, Blue Note, 1964<br />COMPASS, Joshua Redman. Nonesuch, 2009<br />BACK EAST, Joshua Redman. Nonesuch, 2007<br />WAY OUT WEST, Sonny Rollins, Fantasy, 195?<br />HOLD TIME, M. Ward, Merge, 2009<br />CONNER OBERST, Conner Oberst, Merge, 2008<br />FOR ALL I CARE, The Bad Plus, Do The Math, 2008<br />PROG, The Bad Plus, Do The Math, 2007<br />KICKING TELEVISION:LIVE IN CHICAGO, Wilco, Nonesuch, 2006?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-15159199465114985632009-03-13T19:57:00.000-04:002009-03-13T20:00:18.823-04:00Me on the NBCCMy term on the board of the National Book Critics Circle begins today. I'm very excited. I was also elected VP in charge of membership, so if you want to join, which you really ought to do, you'll be dealing with me. <div class="iblogger-footer"><br clear="all"/><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">[Posted with <a href="http://illuminex.com/iBlogger/index.html">iBlogger</a> from my iPhone]</p><br/></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-80008887033041616112009-03-10T23:22:00.000-04:002009-03-10T23:25:56.725-04:00jazzI've been listening to an obsene amount of jazz lately, just downloading like mad--Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Paul Motian, The Bad Plus, Joe Lovano, Chris Speed, Coung Vu, Jordi Rossy, Chris Cheek--and trying to write about it. <div class="iblogger-footer"><br clear="all"/><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">[Posted with <a href="http://illuminex.com/iBlogger/index.html">iBlogger</a> from my iPhone]</p><br/></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-44291246168630838582009-02-27T20:42:00.000-05:002009-02-27T20:45:10.153-05:00listeningI tend to alternate between exclusively instrumental and lyric-having music. On a jazz jag now. I love how jazz is all about moments. Even the albums aren't meant to be big deals in themselves--not like rock albums. They're just records of events, to be taken however a listener wants. <div class="iblogger-footer"><br clear="all"/><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">[Posted with <a href="http://illuminex.com/iBlogger/index.html">iBlogger</a> from my iPhone]</p><br/></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-69814662857274163002009-02-27T15:32:00.002-05:002009-02-27T15:34:05.402-05:00I've become really interested lately in the idea of blogger as a way to communicate with a smeall, predefined group of people--blogs for classes or 4 friends that want to share some particular kind of information. In that situation, the blog becomes a kind of table, and everyone puts their stuff on it and people can look and comment if and whenever they want to.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-34441125166326525232009-02-23T22:12:00.001-05:002009-02-23T22:22:10.236-05:00Video of My University of Chicago Reading<a href="http://mindonline.uchicago.edu/media/humanities/poempresent/teicher_021809_512K.mov">This is me reading at U of Chicago on 2.18.09</a>. I'm SO HAIRY.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-3316162278427849292009-02-21T07:26:00.002-05:002009-02-21T07:32:28.959-05:00Two More Books I'm Excited AboutPRESENT IMPERFECT by Suzanne Buffam<br /><br />THE NEST, SWIFT PASSARINE by Dan Beachy-Quick (Tupelo, April 2009)<br />-I love DBQ's first book, NORTH TRUE, SOUTH BRIGHT, but couldn't quick follow him on the two books about Moby Dick, nor on the last book of poems for Tupelo, but I think I'm back on board with this one.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-1091442280260877862009-02-20T11:27:00.001-05:002009-02-20T11:29:33.296-05:00AprilBack in New York. Had a wonderful time in Chicago...<div><br /></div><div>I'm buried in poetry books. Will someone please explain to me why it helps for all poetry to be PUBLISHED in april? Why can't publishers just promote that month? ugh.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-54005765702828270212009-02-18T11:09:00.000-05:002009-02-18T11:10:53.481-05:00me in ChicagoThe week after awp I find myself in Chicago doing a guest poet gig at u of Chicago. I miss being at a university--makes me feel safe the way hiding I'm a shrub did when I was little. <br/><div class="iblogger-footer"><br clear="all"/><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">[Posted with <a href="http://illuminex.com/iBlogger/index.html">iBlogger</a> from my iPhone]</p><br/></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-43024729920532465652009-02-16T10:04:00.002-05:002009-02-16T10:06:52.238-05:00Me on Starting Today: Poems for Obama's First 100 DaysLast Wednesday was my day on this amazing blog curated by Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg. They assigned a poet to write a poem for each of Obama's first 100 days in office. <a href="http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com/2009/02/day-24-craig-teicher.html">Here</a>'s my poem. I've been writing lots of poems shaped and rhymed like this lately.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-12944977091684928622009-02-15T16:02:00.002-05:002009-02-15T16:11:03.297-05:00New or Forthcoming Books I'm Excited AboutPOETRY<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br /><br /></span>Most are pubbing--you guessed it!--April. Though I bet some were made available early for AWP, where I was not this year.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />As If</span> by James Galvin (Copper Canyon, 2009)<br />-haven't seen a galley of this yet, but I've liked the poems I've seen in mags.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Rising</span> by Farrah Field (Four Way, 2009)<br />-Farrah is a good friend and a blazing poet.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The End of the West</span> by Michael Dickman (Copper Canyon, 2009)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It is Daylight</span> by Arda Collins (Yale, 2009)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Plum-Stone Game</span> by Kathleen Jesme (Ahsahta, 2009)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Transcendental Studies</span> by Keith Waldrop (U of California, 2009)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Chronic</span> by D.A. Powell (Graywolf, 2009. Just released)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Collected Poems and Unfinished Poems</span> of C.P. Cavafy, trans. by Daniel Mendelsohn (Knopf, 2009--March)<br /><br />PROSE<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Way Through Doors</span>: A Novel by Jesse Ball (Vintage, 2009)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Close Calls with Nonsense</span> by Stephen Burt (Graywolf, 2009)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Winter Sun</span> by Fanny Howe (Graywolf, 2009)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-9532863216375774512009-02-15T15:58:00.002-05:002009-02-15T16:01:00.371-05:00Brenda Nominated for NBCC AwardBrenda Shaughnessy, who is, among many other things, my wife, was nominated for the 2008 Nataional Book Critics Circle Award for her second book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Human Dark with Sugar</span> (Copper Canyon, 2008). I'm very excited and I hope you'll all cross your fingers for her.<br /><br />Just to keep the record straight--I was recently elected to the board of the NBCC, but my term does not start until March 2009, after Brenda's award is decided.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0