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Friday, June 24, 2005

A Thank You from My Vocabulary (and, as usual, a request)

Dear friends, listeners and supporters,

It's time to say goodbye for the summer . . .

First off, James and I want to thank you all for being such a great audience. We've enjoyed putting your poems on the radio, corresponding with you, begging you for material, etc. We've heard it rumored that the show is sometimes played at bookstore counters. We like this rumor and we hope it's true. We hope soon to be able to offer a streaming archive of the shows that have been recorded so far. Hopefully this will be up and running by the end of the summer.

The success we've had so far with the 10 shows we've done over the last 10 weeks has led us to the conclusion that we should do it all again next year. But this time, instead of just 10 shows in 10 weeks, we'll be doing 30 shows in 30 weeks -- Fall, Winter and Spring. That's pretty crazy, we know. 60 hours of poetry and music. But we hope you'll help us get there.

How can you help us? Well, there are many ways. No money. We just want your poetry. Preferably sooner rather than later.

1. As always, individual poets who want to contribute a few poems here and there to the show can visit our website at http://myvocabulary.blogspot.com, read the instructions for using our audioblog, and go ahead and leave poems there. We've been very impressed with the work we've received on the audioblog this year and we have used all of it. The audioblog will be open all summer so feel free to leave us a message anytime you feel like it. Remember to introduce yourself before you start reading. Tell us who you are and where you are from.

2. You can also always send us mp3s through our email address, myvocabulary@gmail.com. The storage on this account is very large, so don't worry too much about the size of the files you are sending.

3. If you run a reading series, please consider sending us recordings of one or a few of your recent readings. A few of you who do run reading series have told us that you will be sending tapes or mp3s of the series that you run. We hope you will do this in September. Let us know before you do and we will tell you the address where you should send them.

4. If you run a journal or lit mag and would like to put together an hour or so of readings from your most recent issue and record them, that would be a great thing to send to My Vocabulary. We would love that.

5. You know what we might also like? Maybe you might want to do a short 5 minute review of a new book of poems or a recent issue of a journal into the audioblog. Or maybe you want to muse a little, or tell us something we don't know about poetry. Yeah. We might like that too.

6. I (Matt Shindell) will be in DC this summer from July 1 to August 31. I'll have my recording equipment with me and will be looking for readings to record. Do you live in the DC area? Do you have a reading series? Know of any? Would you like to sit down and do a short reading for me and my microphone? Please let me know.

7. Read 6 again, but this time replace DC with San Diego and replace me (Matt Shindell) with James Meetze. He'll be here all summer and would love to record some poetry.

8. If you know you'll be here in the San Diego area sometime in the Fall, Winter or Spring, let us know. We'd love to have you in the studio to read or to talk about poetry.

9, You can always appear live via telephone if you like. Just let us know.

That's all I can think of right now. Maybe you've got a better idea? If so, say so. We think of this as a community thing, you know, not just the James and Matt show. That would be boring. Tell us what you want to hear on the radio and we'll do our best to provide it. We're here to serve you.

I love you all like I love my Cuisinart (and I do love my Cuisinart),

Matt

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My Vocabulary: Poems and Music
Hosted by Matthew Shindell and James Meetze
Music by Michel Cazary
Sundays 4-6 pm (PST) on KSDT (http://scw.ucsd.edu/)
http://myvocabulary.blogspot.com
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: Name: Matthew Shindell; Location: San Diego, California, United States

Matthew Shindell used to live and write in Phoenix, Arizona. He now lives and writes in La Jolla, California.

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The Poetry Postcard Project:

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My Vocabulary Radio Show:

Find out about My Vocabulary, the weekly poetry radio show hosted by Matthew Shindell and James Meetze.

Where are my poems?

Read a PDF of my chapbook, Were something to happen it would be both funny and interesting. Copies of this limited edition chapbook are no longer available.

American Letters and Commentary (Coming Soon) - "Hoo Ta Ta, Hoo Ta"

American Poetry Review July/August 2004 - "It sounds like a saxophone tugging across a field"

Black Warrior Review v30n2 - "Sidekick"

FENCE v6n2 - "Drinking with the Ventriloquist's Dummy" & "Parable of the Boy inside the Deer"

Hayden's Ferry Review #25 - "The Willow"

Hayden's Ferry Review #35 - "The Monkey's Skull: Where Do Good Newsmen Come From?" & "Made Easy"

Jubilat 7 - "But Emerson Says, 'The body is a metre. The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose."

The Melic Review - "In Short, a Pleasant Day :: The Man Arrives, Hooray!" "The Same Words :: Order of Harpoons," & "A Birdâs Head Rolls Into Two Baskets :: Walkie-Talkie"

No Tell Motel - "Order of Harpoons :: Digitalia :: Dobre Vecher" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Read my discussion of the poem here.

Northwest Review - "Clink" & "Bear-Caught"

Octopus 4 - "About the Author," "Four Star General" &
"The Day :: Born :: The Red Door"

Pleiades 24:2 - "Speech of Artificio, a Character in My New Play" & "Inc."

Tarpaulin Sky v2n2&3 -
"Two Jokes About Bears"

Unpleasant Event Schedule - "He Called Her Forest (or was it Forest?)" & "The Brain Full of Bourbon (concerning the doctor and the simulation of Switzerland)"

A Thank You from My Vocabulary (and, as usual, a request)

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