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The only Michael ever

put me at the bottom of us.

About Me

The 9-digit US Department of Labor code for POET is 131067042.

My Interests

Literary journals. Check out "Noon" for fiction and "Field" for poetry.

Music:

Akimbo
Curl Up and Die
Daughters
Junius
You Say Party, We Say Die
Cancer Bats
Aesop Rock
The Octopus Project
Okkervil River
Air
Aesop Rock, Okkervil River, Every Time I Die and The Dillinger Escape Plan all have new albums out within a month. Send someone to save me.
Now, as if to compliment all that, each of those bands is playing nearby sometime in the next two months.

Movies:

The Seventh Seal
The Deer Hunter
2001: A Space Odyssey
Zach Galifinakis Live at the Purple Onion

Television:

Arrested Development, The Office, The Sopranos

Books:

Reading:

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Against Which - Ross Gay
tons of school stuff
Read:

Poetry -
The External Combustion Engine - Michael Ives
The Book of Funnels - Christian Hawkey
The Sonnets - Ted Berrigan
The Concerto Form - Anthony Hawley
Dura - Myung Mi Kim

Prose-
Portnoy's Complaint, The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Pastoralia - George Saunders
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Heroes:

Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR's "On Point."