Austin folks, mark your calendars: there will be a Newspaper Blackout talk / signing at Domy Books on May 27th! Details here.
It thrills me to no end that not only does Newspaper Blackout continue to get great reviews, but almost 2,500 people now follow the Newspaper Blackout Tumblr and dozens of people every week are submitting their own poems. Check it out.
Check out the new storefront with Newspaper Blackout books, t-shirts, and prints!
And in case you don’t get the title…
Here’s the flip-side of the poem, which looks kind of neat:
A bonus poem for Mother’s Day: this one is from page 59 of Newspaper Blackout.
I polled The Twitterverse, and The Twitterverse spoke.
If there’s ever a Newspaper Blackout sequel (and I suggest you buy a copy if you ever want to see that happen), I think I’d like to use more drawing and graphic elements in the poems, a la Humument or TNT En Amerique.
Speaking of, you can now Look Inside! the book on Amazon. Tip: if you keep clicking “Surprise me!” you can see a bunch of poems.
This is from the book, and one of the poems The New Yorker ran on their blog.
Well, we’re almost there. After almost two years, Newspaper Blackout is out tomorrow. I woke up early this morning, feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve.
A few folks have told me that Amazon has shipped their books, although there’s still one day left to pre-order and enter the screenprint giveaway.
I’m excited. Book release party at Bookpeople here in Austin tomorrow night at 7PM!
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This is day 14 out of 14 that I’m posting a poem a day until the book comes out on April 13th. Check back daily or subscribe via RSS for new poems.
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