I just got my copy of Tuesday; An Art Project in the mail.

“Project” is apt because Tuesday is not built like a journal, though it has journal-like tendencies. It’s more of a collaboration between poets and textual architecture. Each poems comes on its own postcard-esque page and you can feel the tension between the text and the paper it is printed on.

The whole concept is a refreshing take on how poetry can interact with the rest of the world. It’s good to see.

I just got word that two poems from the Jack Johnson manuscript, “Rememory” and “Fisticuffs,” will be forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review. Thanks to Allison Joseph and Jon Tribble for including the poems in such a wonderful journal.

In celebration, here is a clip of Johnson himself getting down. Seriously, keep watching until he uppercuts a cymbal crash (1:46):

This was on the P&W website a minute ago, but I needed to post something to get this page up. You can read all 150 words about Super Ape here:

Adrian Matejka recommends…

Listen to “Underground” here:

Big thanks to Ron Mitchell and everyone at Southern Indiana Review for running some poems from my Jack Johnson manuscript. The new issue looks really sharp.  Check it out here:

http://www.usi.edu/sir/current-issue.aspx

And to add to the party atmosphere, here’s a clip of Johnson’s fight with Stanley Ketchel described in the poem “A Struggle Between a Demon & a Gritty Little Dwarf”: