Andrew Choate @ Tongue & Groove – Sunday 4/19
A writer that we are HUGE fans of will be one of the readers at Conrad Romo’s Tongue & Groove event this Sunday.
We like Andrew Choate so much that we told him we’d like to publish his next book. To our delight, he’s all for it. He’s been working on the manuscript right now.
His work is incredibly unique and we love any writer, any artist, who commits to his craft so completely.
His first book, Langquage Makes the Body Plastic, was published by Palm Press. The book comes with a CD that includes Andrew’s musical renditions.
We are very excited and we have to figure out how to do the CD and such, considering the publishing service we use.
Anyway, for a better taste of what Andrew’s about, check out this clip of him reading “Home Depot Weapon”:
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Published on April 16, 2009 ~ 06:05 PM
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Mike the Poet on LA Times
A cool article on the LA Times last week about Mike Sonksen. It gives a good sense of what Mike the Poet and his crew, and our friendship with him over the years, has been about.
He doesn’t do it for riches or for the ego boost. He is driven instead by the simple belief that in the “postmodern metropolis” of L.A., the city is what the people make it. His poems, which often read like little histories, celebrate the city and its countercultural movements.
“There are little worlds, little villages, little pockets all over the city, and there are all of these different scenes and movements throughout the years,” he said. “What I’m doing is cataloging it.”
In the process, Mike the Poet is also trying to build an art movement of his own – something he refers to as the New Beautiful.
We are eagerly awaiting his manuscript for Fast Lane (working title), a memoir/novel/poetry/travelogue that he’s been working on and that we will be publishing later this year.
In the meantime, check out the piece: