HeyJaredMaximum Threshold
The feral longings of a poet tangled inside identity politics. Dispatches from the trans wars, cultural implosions, political hazards of thinking outside the lines --
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Winter in America: a Reading on Friday Night (opens the original)
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So this is late notice friends but I’m bad at publicity. I’m featured tomorrow night on Zoom, or that would be TONIGHT — Friday night — in this reading along with many fantastic poets and writers. Do check it out if you are so inclined. Note the time is PDT, so do switch that over. Check out the anthology as well. In these insane times, art inspires toward transformation. ——————————————————————————————————&#
Dreams/Inverse Video (opens the original)
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Welcome to Fall! I’m offering today a poem from my chapbook Animal Magnetism published by eg press in December 1983. I was thrilled to have local poet David Highsmith, who was putting together a series of chapbooks for his then new small press, publish a small group of poems — mainly written from the late seventies into obviously, the very early eighties. Others in the series included Byron Perrin —my good buddy, and Marsha Campbell, Dodie Bellamy and others. The chapbooks are probably all hard
As We Drive to the Grocery Store (opens the original)
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Goodbye to August! How did that happen so fast! More to come in September. But today, here— a poem! I think it’s a kind of ode to suburban malaise. Which is abundant. Subscribe nowText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published As We Drive to the Grocery Store as we drive to the grocery store again I memorize French gramm
Umbrella Music (opens the original)
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And so a poem —- (!) It was part of a larger, longer new piece and somehow, it got truncated while I was editing. I realized that I had two poems and not just one. And… this time, I tweeked the punctuation a bit — Subscribe nowText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Umbrella Music
Skeletal Provisions (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedSkeletal Provisions the skeletal provisions strung around our necks gain access— to tunnels to crosswalks to wounds to musical chairs to signals from the water— to an arcade an uneven scattered beginning accelerates— the
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