Nick Courtright

Dear Friends,
I regret to inform you that in lieu of anything even remotely resembling “interesting” or “clever” or, god forbid, “entertaining,” this MySpace page is hereby declared a receptacle—a trash bin, if you will—in which I will collect links to the spreading disease of “poetry” and “music-journalism” I have thusly thrust upon the earth and its unsuspecting airwaves, pages, and whatnot. Certainly, in some other world I could be compelled to use this space with greater “compassion,” or perhaps even “wisdom,” or at least “fewer quotation marks,” but alas, in this world, it is not to be. And so, my friends, consider yourself warned.
With gravest apologies,
Nick Courtright
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NEW POETRY ACCEPTANCES
The Kenyon Review Online is now featuring "Citrus" as part of the launch of their journal's online counterpart.
Gulf Coast has accepted "This Quiet Complex" for publication in an upcoming issue.
Connecticut Review has accepted “The Circuit” for publication in their Fall 2008 issue.
Third Coast has accepted “The Surveyor” for publication in their Fall 2008 issue.
The Cincinnati Review has accepted “Hourglass” for an upcoming issue.
Inkwell has accepted “Sheets” for publication.
OTHER FORTHCOMING POETRY
Massachusetts Review will be publishing “Peer Into.”
The Iowa Review will be publishing “Elegy for the Builder’s Wife” in its Spring issue.
Parthenon West will be publishing “A Man Who Could Have Been.”
American Poetry Journal will be publishing three poems--“Lesson,” “This Is a Clarification, pt. 3,” and “This is a mountain of silence and vindication.”
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
The Florida Review has “The Smallest Room.”
Identity Theory has “The traveler awakes. Her train awakes.”
Ninth Letter has “Preparing for the Fire.”
Redivider has “Anything but String Theory,” as well as Rebecca Hall's “La Maison du Fada.”
New Orleans Review features “Everyday Crash” on its website, and that poem as well as “All Those Globes” is in the print.
Harpur Palate has “July.”
Flyway has “Aubade (The Explorer’s Faith).”
Barrelhouse has “Don’t Worry, This Is Just the Beginning” and “Pop Song for Stephen Hawking.”
Denver Quarterly has “Ukraine Love Song.”
Kadar Koli , the journal run by David Hadbawnik, has Part II. of “Where the Workers Lived.”
My poetry has also appeared in the last couple years in Caketrain, Court Green, Salamander, The Portland Review, Diagram, Siren, The Pebble Lake Review, Phoebe, Ghoti, Cranky, Lilies & Cannonballs, Astropoetica, Zone 3, The Literary Review, and a few other random places.
MUSIC!
Check out my interview of Fiery Furnaces , or my interview with Battles , or my newest interviews with Built to Spill , WHY? , and Phosphorescent .
To read my impression of Radiohead's album release method, click here .
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. If you want to read my record reviews for Austinist, please click on the band name and magic will take you there: Sunset Rubdown . Jens Lekman . Fiery Furnaces . The Castanets . Liars . Akron/Family .
Click on the conveniently intuitive link to read my concert reviews: the beautiful Joanna Newsom . MGMT, Explosions in the Sky, and (more creatively) Of Montreal . The incomparable Cat Power, and Ocote Soul Sound . Final Fantasy .
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