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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Postcard from Mary McMullen

Still hoping you'll send me some recorded poetry for the radio show (see the previous post for details). I already have a few takers, so I am very optimistic this will turn out to be fun.

Meanwhile, Mary McMullen has taken me up on my offer from two posts back. In exchange for the postcard she's sent me (click the thumbnail below to see the card), I'll be putting a copy of Hayden's Ferry Review in the mail to her on Monday.

Looks like Mary used her new Olivetti to type this one. I'm still jealous that she found one and I didn't. At least I know she's putting it to good use already! If it were mine, it would probably be sitting idle with all my other typewriters.

Anyway, the postcard made my day this afternoon when I checked my mail. So take a look . . .

Still four more copies of HFR to give away. Send me a card and one could be yours.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Poetry on the Radio!

Good news.

I went in, filled out a form, took advantage of my status as a fee-paying student in a public university, and made one of my long-standing dreams come true. I am now a radio DJ.

In the slot they've assigned me, James Meetze and I are starting a poetry radio show that I've titled "Talk to the Dead" (which, the way I prefer to say it, sounds kind of like "Talk to the Hand").

Starting in a couple weeks, you'll be able to hear James and me every Sunday from 4-6 in the afternoon (PST). All you'll have to do is go to http://scw.ucsd.edu/ and click on the appropriate link. You'll be able to hear us through iTunes or whatever music program you happen to have.

We don't plan to sit and have meaningful discussions of poetry. Who wants to hear that? Not me. We just want to listen to poetry with you, and maybe play a little music.

We need your help. We want to pack the show as full of poets as possible. What we really want are recordings of poets reading their own work, or even reading their favorite poems by other poets. So, if you have any recordings of yourself, your friends or your heroes, please send them along. Send them as mp3s, or send us links to where we can find them (if they already exist online). If you don't have any recordings, go make some. You can even send tapes to me at the same address listed for postcards.

If you can get permission to record a local reading series, please start recording. We'd like to put as much poetry from as many places as possible on the show. We'd like it to be a way for poets to hear what is being read around the country.

We will try to have guests in the studio. We'd love to have you call and read over the phone, but unfortunately there is no phone in the studio.

We'd like you to listen. If you have ideas for what we should do on the show, let me know. Also, if you have music you'd like to hear, and maybe dedicate to your favorite poet, let me know ahead of time so I can acquire it in time to play it.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Send postcards to my new address

OK. Putting Tony's postcard up yesterday has inspired me. Let's make some postcards. My spring break starts on Friday and that's exactly what I will be doing -- making 5 new cards for Round 3.

Meanwhile, why don't you send me a card?

Here is my new address:

Matthew Shindell
8696-2 Villa La Jolla Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92037

To sweeten the deal, I happen to have about 7 extra copies of the new issue of Hayden's Ferry Review sitting here on my desk. How about, the first five people to send me poetry postcards get a copy of this fine magazine? Just be sure to give me your address so I know where to send it.

From the HFR website:

HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW, #36

Poetry by Matthew Shindell, Oliver de la Paz, Sally Ball, Stuart Dischell

Fiction by Chris Gavaler, Jason Roeder, Nina Robb

Artwork by Aline Smithson, Byron Bull, Marie Navarre

Interviews with William H. Gass

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Tony Tost's Postcard

OK, poetry pos(tcard)ers, here is a little something to get us inspired.

I still need to beg Katey Nicosia to put a link to this on the Poetry Postcard Project Round 2 page (if you want to see the card Tony is responding to, click that last link to see Round 2), but I have finally put Tony Tost's poetry postcard response onto my web-whatever. Click on the thumbnail below and check it out (and once you do, move your mouse over the card to flip it over and see the other side). . .

: 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.

View my complete profile

The Poetry Postcard Project:

Stay tuned to this blog for updates on the status of the Poetry Postcard Project.

Go to the Poetry Postcard Project website to see the project and find out how to participate.

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)"

Read my online poetic project, Jubilee's Daughters, the ongoing and evolving tale of Isabgol in Ronomok.

Listen to my Pandora station? Why not?

Online Poetry Magazines

B A L A K L A V A
Can we have our ball back?
Castagraf
Conjunctions
Double Change
Drunken Boat
Ducky
Failbetter
Gut Cult
HOW2
H_NGM_N
Jacket
La Petite Zine
LVNG
Mark(s)
Moria
No Tell Motel
Octopus
Piplit
PomPom
Puppyflowers
Shampoo
Slope
Tarpaulin Sky
The Canary
Typo
Unpleasant Event Schedule
Word For/ Word

Postcard from Mary McMullen

Poetry on the Radio!

Send postcards to my new address

Tony Tost's Postcard

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