January BlogMixtape: “Be Pretty With Me Now”

As much as I’ve been digging the latest dancy tracks from Justice, Chromatics, M.I.A. (of course), and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, mid-winter has put me in a pretty mellow mood. On that note, here’s this month’s bloggy mix:

I’ve been reading a lot of poetry this week - Matthea Harvey’s latest, lots of Alice Notley, Joe Wenderoth - and writing a lot too. To satisfy my ever-growing obsession with New German Cinema (German New Wave), I’ve been plugging along on poems about the work of Wim Wenders, among other things. I’m headed to Michigan tomorrow (AGAIN) to give a reading at Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor on Thursday, January 16th at 7 p.m. It should be a good time and I’m looking forward to seeing a few familiar faces. Maybe I’ll see some of you there . . .