Gotta lotta lotsa going on around here... half dozen new publications in a couple of weeks... wife home 12 of the last 17 days... Cevon's birthday... adding daily to the Online Library... grandkids spending the night... housecleaning... three dogs... more poetry events than I usually attend in a month, and a lotta lotsa more.

Had a fanfuckintabulous night of poetry 12 February at Cleveland's Literary Cafe (where everyone was a featured reader) - really deserves a fanfuckintabulous blog about it.  But I'm inspired to read read read and write write write new poetry and memoirs and I'm gonna have to prioritize - either blog thoroughly or ride the tidal wave of these current readings/writings.  Since I'm not always inspired to work on memoirs and right new poetry (write now they're working together surprisingly well) - the LitCafe blog this month ain't gonna be what you or I might've expected (plus I still wanna/gotta do a Lix and Kix 5 blog - another fanfuckintabulous night).  Damn shame, but I need 30 or 40 hours a day to do all I wanna due.  Not to mention the 300-some unread messages in my inbox...and that ain't counting MySpace or Road Runner.

Good news is I've uploaded en masse 115 photos from the LitCafe February to my Facebook account - much quicker to get 'em online that way, and saves me the difficulty of deciding which to include in (and exclude from) a blog.  If you gotta FB or know somebody who does, check 'em there.  Otherwise I'll mass upload 'em to MySpace when I have time in the coming month or so.  But I at least wanted to get 'em online in some fashion for the folks who've waited long enough.

Add me here if you wanna and haven't already: http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Burroughs/1072416429

To get the full effect, you really need to just show up at the Literary Cafe one of these second Thursdays before 9:30 p.m. to get you some of the best poetry in the nation.  Of course you're free not to - just like you (and I) were (and was) free to vote for George Bush or Sarah Palin.  Some folks somewhere do actually prefer Republicanism to poetry.  And they're free to do so.  But if their God does exist, may He protect us from them, Dadblastit!

Anyway, here's the last little piece of a probably 20-minute marathon poetic improvisation by LitCafe emcee Nick Traenkner.  I missed most of it, regrettably, but I encourage you to fill in your own context and/or see the surreal genius in it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh7M5wDUojo


See more photos, video, etc. from that night at www.literarycafe.net.  And be there March 12th for featured readings by Mary Biddinger and Michael Grover.