Poetry book- In the Event of Atomic War

A project in Portland, OR by DevonPack
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The book is written. I wish to print and distribute 100 copies to publishers, journals, and critics.
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Dates: Apr 2nd -> Jun 1st (60 days)
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Thank you for your support

June 1st - via: kickstarter.com
As the previous update shows, much was learnt from this project. Though chastening, this was not discouraging. If anything, I'm going to take away that I need to pivot to more accessible literature. Possibly non-fiction historical analysis. I will... (Read More)

Post-mortem analysis

May 30th - via: kickstarter.com
First, I want to thank you for your support. As a consolation, I'm going to offer you the following essay analyzing my project viz a more successful project. I hope this can be of use to all of you.  Also, let me say this: if you send me a mailing... (Read More)

A new poem, to commemorate the passing of a major influence

May 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Ray Manzarek died. The Doors was a tremendous influence on my aesthetics and ambitions and imagination. Blake and Morrison and Rimbaud are all eloquences that I've been long in chasing.  The kickstarter has not been going well. If things don't turn... (Read More)

No more poems of the day- just facts

May 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)

Poem of the Day- My Samsara

May 1st - via: kickstarter.com
My Samsara 04/07/2010 I am the tatter paper, tabloid scrap, the discarded news Hoisted upon the bars of the storm drain gate The currents rush around me I see the waters surging over me I know the waters coursing through me I do not go with the... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- Lost Migration

April 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Lost Migration 02/14/2010# On winging will, I plunge towards the warmth Oh southern sun please soon find me Flockless and alone, the cities of man clang Flickering as they are left spinning behind me. Now forests and mountains, soon beaches and... (Read More)

Poem of the Day - Delicate Request

April 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Delicate Request 03/27/2009 (Love) Go lightly And you can win a prize from me If you can lie to me And say that I love well. Abide me Spare your insights to delight me, And that will be your recipe For sprightly persisting fool. I’d do seppuku,... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- The Poverty of Wishes

April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
The Poverty of Wishes 08/13/2009 I wandered the fields with my lantern held high Two stars fell blazing, fast orange from the sky And what did I wish with all of my might? An alien infant, stranded in the field, An opal eyed devil rising to offer a... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- Secret Prison

April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
RM Nixon’s Secret Prison 01/27/2009  The sweating old man is drowning midair His torrent of words a flail of thoughts Aiming at an expiation that is nowhere in sight. He stumbles to the portraits And the summit photographs The microphone, the... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- Girl Writing at a Desk

April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Girl Writing At A Desk (Regarding Malia Obama) 12/27/2008) On this desk where A long man of strange face spent many hours Forming thought into a function That undid the manacles across a continent, A man who was pensive Over a nation, tearing like... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- On Pessimism

April 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
On Pessimism 05/10/2011 If I were an augur soothsaying billboards I would lament pending disaster Such a silly curse- To always hold a raven on your shoulder, Such a quirk- To only count the summers for the winter, which also crumbles. Living... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- They Would Enforce a Disposable Tommorrow

April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Week 3, 1/6th of the way to the goal. Here's the poem of the day: They Would Enforce a Disposable Tomorrow 05/08/2011 They make things now disposable licensable dispensable Advertising it is sensible Because they’re dependable There’s less... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- Tantalus

April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Tantalus 09/30/2012 With shivering grip my awkward palm Was reached towards love, and love retreated. With pensive stoop I steeped in poison But in hour of coma, death, too, shunned me. Starved of love and parched of peace  The channel left is... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- 3AM Freight Line

April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
3AM Freight Line 03/29/2012 Such a wrecking brute, Cacophony absolute, A rumbling alpha, rearing across our wasteland, Some barren seraphim, squalling a horn Full of a pointless message Shrugging in vast iron rotations, Daubed in heraldry, Rust... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- There is a Bullet

April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
There is a Bullet 04/24/2012 On rainy nights of spring I’ve dreamed the cold spreading across my chest While I collapse. There is a bullet Suspended in decades, frozen across space, That I am walking towards. Waiting to meet Certain to find That no... (Read More)

Poem of the Day- Possible trajectory

April 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Possible Trajectory  09/14/2012 Craft of city lights From the edge of ionosphere, G_d do you witness them, There luminescence is the aura Of ripened fruit almost borne. It is our ending To be dancers in the void, The myth of death Is but the... (Read More)

Poem of the Day

April 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Last Poem I Wrote in Portland 07/30/2012 Roll over Godzilla, take cover King Kong, I'm being reborn as a walking bomb. This lard churns into glycerine , Across the long months of neglect The charge of cordite is whispered beneath every breath. I... (Read More)

Week 2: One Tenth of the Way there!

April 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Poem of the Day: Slack Hiking 04/07/2011 Kids are listening to the autotune croon; Begrudge it, world not composed for you. You have dutifully consumed, Be shucked like an oyster; Truth of the fact, the goods were consuming you. Now at least in the... (Read More)

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