This doesn't really get updated anymore. Sorry about that. I sometimes put news-things up over here: http://forarborsforsatellites.blogspot.com aka, the For Arbors / For Satellites blog. That's the stuff.

2/24/2008 Hallo, Much poetry going around these days, check this out: I have four prose poems in the latest Action, Yes! Action, Yes Vol. 1 Issue 7 Winter 2008 Poems by Rosa Alcalá, Per Bäckström, Raymond Bianchi, Rocio Cerón (translated by Rosa Alcalá,) Lara Glenum, Daniel Groves, Dan Hoy, Richard Kostalanetz, Sergio Medeiros (translated by Raymond Bianchi,) Gabriel and Marcel Piqueray (translated by Robert Archambeau and Jean-Luc Garneau,) Catherine Taylor, Daniel Tiffany, Andrea Loselle, Daniel Rothman, Theodore Mook, Colin Upton, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and Lila Zemborain (translated by Rosa Alcalá.) Also, they call me "Jasmine Dreame Weaver" in the sidebar. Also, I have poems coming out in American Letters & Commentary and NÖO Journal. Some more info on American Letters & Commentary No. 19: Poems by Erik Anderson, Yosa Buson, Sean M. Conrey, Matthew Cooperman, Amy Dickinson, Steffi Drewes, Amy England, CJ Evans, Norman Finkelstein, Andrea Fitzpatrick, Michael Gessner, Michele Glazer, Hillary Gravendyk, Gary Hawkins, Kirsten Kaschock, David Koehn, Nancy Kuhl, Laurie Clements Lambeth, Jee Young Lee, Dawn Lonsinger, Mojdeh Marashi, C. J. Martin, Joshua McKinney, Kat Meads, Ralph J. Mills Jr., Jennifer Militello, B.Z. Niditch, Emily Pérez, Jennifer Pilch, Zach Savich, H.E. Sayeh, Lisa Sewell, D.E. Steward, Stephanie Strickland, Mathias Svalina, Chad Sweeney, Arthur Sze, Steve Tomasula, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, G.C. Waldrep, Rob Walsh, Suzanne Wise, and collaborations between Anna Rabinowitz, John Dermot Woods & Kristen Iskandrian, Joyelle McSweeney & Johannes Göransson, Mark Nowak & Ian Teh, Lea Graham, and Michael Anania. Happy oncoming spring!

12/20/2007 Hallo out there, I have been super busy this fall. Here's two songs I wrote while driving around: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities - For Sparrow http://www.songsaboutghosts.com/mp3/CONC-ForSparrow.mp3 Cabinet of Natural Curiosities - Cities http://www.songsaboutghosts.com/mp3/CONC-Cities.mp3 Just a few weeks ago, I was in California. Now I'm worried my next flight(s) will be cancelled. Wish me luck! :( Happy holidays!

6/18/2007 Hey there, Much news, to start with, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is touring the Pacific Northwest and down into Northern California at the end of June (this week, in fact.) Some dates here: 6/11 Missoula, MT @ The Lab 6/20 Seattle, WA @ SS Marie Antoinette 6/22 Olympia, WA @ Olympia Experimental Music Festival 6/23 Seattle, WA @ Hollow Earth Radio House 6/24 Bellingham, WA @ Cap's (early all-ages brunch show, starts at noon) 6/24 Bellingham, WA @ 2418 W. North St. (house show) 6/25 Portland, OR @ Valentine's 6/27 Eugene, OR @ Cozmic Pizza 6/29 San Francisco, CA @ House of Shields (w/ Lazarus & e.m.a. of Gowns) 6/30 Sacramento, CA @ TBA 7/1 La Grande, OR @ The Gadfly 7/2 Provo, UT @ Muse Music The first five dates will be with the band (acoustic & classical guitar, percussion, upright bass, recorders, electronixs, etc.), the rest will be me solo (acoustic guitar, recorders, electronixs). Most shows will be with Alps of New South Wales, from Australia & touring North America and Europe on bus & rail passes! In addition, I have some artwork/poetry/sound up at PENDU Gallery, an online gallery based in Brooklyn, NY (from their website:) "exhibiting contemporary art by emerging international artists working in a variety of media. Pendu is an art gallery without a rigid manifesto or narrow ideology; a truly relativist, pluralist, experimental, and inclusive curatorial project. PENDU GALLERY also releases recordings of weird, frenetic, and uniquely fucked musics through PENDU SOUND RECORDINGS." Look here for my stuff featuring myself, Sean Hill, Jonathan Zalben, and Jasmine Landau: Jasmine Dreame Wagner and Cabinet of Natural Curiosities at PENDU Gallery I also have new poems online at Verse Magazine and Kulture Vulture! More to come. Gone fishin'...

4/6/2007 Hey everyone, Some news! I have poems online in two magazines: Moria Poetry and MiPOesias. In Moria: Charles Perrone * Steve Davenport * Lina Ramona Vitkauskas * Matina Stamatakis * Diana Magallon * Jasmine Dreame Wagner * Eric Gurney * Kristy Odelius * Simon Dedeo * Tracey Gagne * Lawrence Berggoetz * Maurice Oliver * George Payne * Craig Perez and Katy Acheson * Mackenzie Carignan * Bronwen Tate * Kane X. Faucher * Paul Siegell * Heller Levinson * Magdalena Sokolowski * Alek Lindus And in MiPOesias: Jasmine Dreame Wagner, or, http://media.libsyn.com/media/miporadio/Jasmine_Dreame_Wagner.pdf, an interview -and- poems! In other news, I'm reading with Ethan Paquin and The WHITE MOOSE on Saturday night as part of the New Lakes readings and will end or almost-end the evening with a performance with the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, who just played two shows last week with Magnolia Electric Co., Good Neighbor Policy, Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, Blood Baby, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Purrbot, 1985, Old Shoes (you can sort those bands out into two shows) and it was and will be fantastic.

2/24/2007 Hey everyone, The February issue of elimae is online, featuring poems and stories by: Joachim Frank * Kim Chinquee * Shya Scanlon * Joanna Ruocco * M Sarki * Glenn Lester * Mathias Svalina * Matt Rittenhouse * Radu Dima * Ian Davisson * Jasmine Dreame Wagner * Shelly Rae Rich * Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert * Josh Potter * AE Reiff * Nelson L. Eshleman * Michael Grant Smith * Myfanwy Collins * Gary Beck * Tim Lantz and Mark Yakich * Nick Antosca * Sue Miller * John Harvey * Russell Brakefield * Antonios Maltezos * Brian Beatty * J.R. Salling * Chris Sheehan * Michelle Beth Cronk * Alicia Gifford * Andrea Fitzpatrick * Mary Lynn Reed * Noah Gammell It's a good issue, you should check it out.

12/4/2006 Hey everyone, A few Cabinet of Natural Curiosities reviews online: Simon Lewis at Terrascope: "Created by Jasmine Dreame Wagner, the album inhabits the wyrd side of the folk spectrum... a blend of gentle voice, acoustic instruments and strange electronic sounds", "a small glistening gem on a moss-encrusted rock sparkling with light and beauty." JR Leonetti at Smooth Assailing: "pure memorable lo-fi warmth," " talented people came together and made a wonderful album. nothing more, nothing less." The reviews are quite lengthy, so follow the links for more. 19 degrees outside, hope your winter is warm!

11/12/2006 Hey everyone, It's been a few months since I last posted an update and I certainly have a lot to say. This past Thursday, the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities played an amazing show at The Lab in Missoula, Montana, with Jason Anderson and Travis Sehorn, definitely one of my favorite shows ever. I was joined by Nathan Purrbot on piano, Scott Kennedy on electric slide guitar, Brandon Shimoda on poems, and Andy Smetanka on saw. The show was packed full of awesome people and I can't even believe how good we were (being bashful and modest here, of course!) The Missoula Independent wrote an article about the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities here. Over the past few months, I've really been enjoying the Collective Voice radio broadcast and podcast out of St. John's, Newfoundland. Anyone into noise/experimental/avant-garde/folk-ish music should check it out. I have a song on their November 9th podcast, along with tracks from Excepter, Gang Wizard, Axolotl, No-Neck Blues Band, Quintron + Miss Pussycat, and others. Download and listen! In poem news, I have two poems up on elimae and a poem coming out in the next issue of 32 Poems Magazine, a small pantoum that I wrote in Matthew Zapruder's class last fall. So excited! And in art news, my illustrations will be in a group show at Dauphine's in Missoula. Jasmine Dreame Wagner on Artnews. And to end on a big note, this winter, I'll be in Kenya and either Ethiopia and/or Tanzania thanks to a generous series of travel awards granted by my university's Dean, Provost and Vice President of Research and Development. I placed in the top-10 finalists in the Summer Literary Seminars Kenya Poetry Contest and received a nice tuition fellowship as an award, then my writing program and the English department helped me with the rest. I'm so excited I can hardly sleep, though I have to admit that the yellow fever shots and malaria pills aren't terribly enthralling. Anything to make the trip, though, I'm still in a state of disbelief, even though I've already gotten my plane ticket. That's about all my news for now, it's been a good but hectic autumn, let the snow fall! (Just not on the day that I fly!)

8/6/2006 Hey everyone, The Summer 2006 issue of the Colorado Review is out, on newstands and available for order right here or at places like St. Mark's Bookshop or the magazine section of Barnes and Noble at Union Square (two places I like to hang out and look at things.) My poem, 1985 The Book of Sand is on the preview page of the Colorado Review website... but you should pick up a copy anyways because the writing is always top-notch. Also, last night at PSII Gallery we had a great closing evening with P.G. Six and Bob Bannister, The Festival, Jennifer Strickland, and Spring Snow. Hopefully, I'll have photos of the opening, last Saturday's performance, and pictures from last night up soon... I'll post them where they're ready. Here, however, is an mp3 of P.G. Six and Bob Bannister's set, recorded by Robert Dennis. Hopefully, I'll be seeing the beach sometime soon!

7/26/2006 Hey everyone, I will be showing some artwork behind a performance of the Theater of Natural Curiosities on July 29th as part of: Saturation, A Dwelling Place Illustration, Printmaking and Painting by Jasmine Dreame Wagner Matthew Trygve Tung Katherine Mangiardi and James Graham @PS2 Gallery 13-03a Jackson Avenue Long Island City July 28th - August 5th Two pieces (out of four) that I will be showing:

Gallery Events:


July 28th
7 - 10 PM
Opening reception


July 29th, 2006
7 PM

Further Adventures of the Monkey God: A Choral Symphony
Martine Bellen, Poet, and Dave Sewelson, Saxophonist
Accompanied by paintings by James Graham

The Theater of Natural Curiosities Presents:
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Performing
Towing and Melting by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
With Rachel Hartman, Matthew Trygve Tung, Kathy Wasik,
Anne Guthrie (french horn), Joseph E. Martin (percussion)
and Ryan T. Martin (guitar)


August 5th, 2006
7 PM

P.G. Six
The Festival
Jennifer Strickland
Spring Snow and His Super I Love You Stiletto Orchestra

6/11/2006 Hey everyone, I'll be giving a poetry reading along with three other poets at PSII Gallery in Long Island City this Saturday, 6/17. The reading is a closing party for the current show, which features some really great work by three New York painters, and will also have some nice wine and probably dancing somewhere afterwards. Hope to see some of you there. Pattern and Process Reading Saturday, June 17th at PSII Gallery 13-03a Jackson Avenue, Long Island City (a few blocks from PS1) 7 PM ... will be reading some new work: Martine Bellen Kathleen Ossip Jasmine Dreame Wagner Armando Jaramillo Garcia ... along with artwork by: Kira Greene Edmund Kim Andrew Baron For directions and gallery info: http://www.psiigallery.com Martine Bellen is the author of five collections of poetry including The Vulnerability of Order, Copper Canyon Press; Tales of Murasaki and Other Poems, Sun & Moon Press which won the National Poetry Series Award; and Places People Dare Not Enter, Potes & Poets Press. GHOSTS! will be published fall/winter 2006 by Spuyten Duyvil Press. Ms. Bellen’s poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies including This Art: Poems About Poetry, Copper Canyon Press (2003) and The Convergence of Birds: Writing Inspired by Joseph Cornell, DAP (2001). She has been a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and the American Academy of Poets Award. She is a contributing editor for Conjunctions. Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Search Engine, which was selected by Derek Walcott for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Washington Post, Fence, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches poetry workshops at The New School, where she serves as Editor at Large for LIT. A chapbook of movie poems called Cinephrastics will be released this fall. Jasmine Dreame Wagner's writing has previously appeared in the Indiana Review, The Seattle Review, The North American Review, The Columbia Review and is forthcoming in the Colorado Review. A graduate of Columbia University, she will be a writer-in-residence at the Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend, Vermont, during the summer of 2006 and will be joining the MFA program at the University of Montana in the fall. Armando Jaramillo Garcia was born in Colombia, South America and raised in Queens, New York. At age 14 he began trying to write song lyrics until someone told him those were bad songs but good poems. Many years later he can now differentiate between the two. He attended Aviation High School and Hunter College, leaving both with the usual and dubious distinctions. Also, for those of you in Maine, the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities will be performing in Portland, Maine, on Sunday, July 2nd at the Local 188. Hurrah for a beautiful 4th of July weekend, with music and ghost stories and walks along the rocky shore. More info to come.

4/11/2006 Hey everyone, First of a pile of news: I've been accepted to several graduate programs in creative writing, my top two choices being UMass Amherst and the University of Montana. If anyone has any advice or information on these two programs (which are both excellent, top-ten MFA programs in creative writing!) please let me know. I've never lived in a college town before and am looking forward to seeing what the music, art and literary scenes are like in Amherst/Northampton and Missoula. From what I know, Amherst/Northampton has good music and restaurants, but Missoula does, too, and also, Montana has Yellowstone and Glacier National Park just a short drive away. I've got a difficult decision to make. On top of grad school, this summer I'll be a writer-in-residence at The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education in Townshend, Vermont. I'm definitely looking forward to having some time to sit down and do nothing but draw and write. Hall Farm provides a room, a studio to work in, and three meals a day and - better yet! - doesn't cost a thing, so I'll finally be able to focus and get in the swing before heading off to grad school in the fall. I'm also excited about staying in the middle of a 221-acres of beautiful woods and farmland, I love New York but recently I've found myself needing a break. Actually, I'll miss New York a great deal - every part of it except Park Slope. For real. ANYWAYS. In other news, music news! the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is due to play at show at The Cake Shop on Friday, April 28th with the likes of P.G. Six, Pothole Skinny, and Thought Forms (UK). The show starts at 9 PM and should be awesome, our first time playing out in a while, hopefully with Mr. Jonathan Zalben on violin. On the writing front, I have a poem in the most recent issue of the Indiana Review and a few more forthcoming in the Colorado Review and Elimae. I also started a blog where I discuss and/or share things I like, which includes but is not exclusive to: books, photography, art and poetry. You can read it at http://songsaboutghosts.blogspot.com. Okay all, thanks all for reading & I wish you all some great weather. :)

8/18/2005 Hey everyone, I hope your summers have been going well and that you've all had some time to relax. The beach is looking very good recently, but I don't think I'll have time to drive out to the coast until after Labor Day. I got to see a bit of the San Diego shore while I was in California, but I'm dreaming of Martha's Vineyard or Rhode Island and hope things calm down soon. There have been lots of developments in the past couple months, shows and readings and artwork and the like. First of all, the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities played a few shows on the west coast in July. One excellent one was at The Smell in Los Angeles with Gowns, Carla Bozulich, Anni Rossi, and Corey Fogel. Many thanks to Erza Buchla for setting up the night, and to Erika, Carla, and Anni for their voices. We also played Ladyfest San Diego with Rose For Bohdan, Barrabarracuda (members of a ton of bands on Deathombarc and Not Not Fun Records), and Sex Affection, who I believe might have been only part of the band and called themselves Group Picture? This show was a huge amount of fun and many thanks to Jessalyn for setting up the show and for letting us sleep in one of her roommates' beds. As for August and Everything After (sic), the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities has shows coming up in New York and a few CDr releases planned for Perhaps Transparent and Friendly Biceps Records, as well as a track on a compilation released by Workerbee Records in Iowa. I'll post more information when I have it. Here's some upcoming shows, please come out and say hello! Friday, August 19th Wooden Wand and The Vanishing Voice PG Six Viking Moses Cabinet of Natural Curiosities @The Cake Shop 152 Ludlow (between Rivington and Stanton) 8 PM / $7 Friday, August 26th Ramona Cordova Dirty Projectors Cabinet of Natural Curiosities @Tommy's Tavern 1041 Manhattan Ave. (Greenpoint) Saturday, September 17th CMJ Music Marathon @Rockwood Music Hall 196 Allen St. (between Houston and Stanton) In other news, I have another photograph, one I took at the abandoned nuclear submarine base at Paldiski, Estonia, on the Unpleaant Event Schedule, along with a poem by Richard D. Allen. In addition, the newest edition of ONTHEBUS is finally out and I have a piece in it! The release party/reading out in Venice Beach was a lot of fun, even if I was a little late (LA traffic) and I enjoyed finally meeting editor Jack Grapes. This new issue is huge and glossy and definitely worth checking out. Well, I hope summer has been sweet and that you've had a chance to go swimming or at least make it to the park! I'm in the process of looking for a new apartment, which I'm sure will be hellish, but it's making me look forward to Labor Day weekend when I'll be moved in and closer to the train and probably taking a day to go to Rhode Island. Drop a line, and if you're looking for zines, I am sold out except for a hidden pile that I sent to Learning To Leave A Paper Trail Distro. I'm going to be making one more run in the next few months but will only be selling them through a few distros, so check back here.

6/15/2005 Hi everyone, June so far has been filled with sweltering weather and weddings! I fortunately left my toaster-oven apartment to attend my childhood friend Steff's wedding in Connecticut on Sunday. I don't think I've ever seen a happier bride. Congratulations to Steff and Ian! In other news, I have some artwork featured on the Unpleasant Event Schedule, namely, the desert near Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. One is currently up, another is scheduled to appear sometime in the fall along with two photographs I took at the former Soviet nuclear submarine base in Paldiski, Estonia. The first photo, along with a poem by Reb Livingston, can be found here. Two weeks ago, the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities played an amazing show with O'Death, Poorboy Johnson and The Goddamn Rattlesnake, Buzz Buzz Tabernacle, Jennie Owen Youngs, and Osai at the Apocalypse Lounge. O'Death and The Goddamn Rattlesnake showed everyone a good time, and by the end of the night there wasn't a single person there who wasn't drenched in sweat from dancing or pushing into the crowd to listen. Hopefully, we'll play out again sometime soon. As for the Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, we have two EPs available, White Wallpaper, a set of traditional murder ballads and chants, and Black Bough, more experimental storytelling with layered field recordings, both composed of acoustic and electric guitars, alto recorder, Inuit drums, assorted brass objects, and piano. One of our tracks will be featured on a compilation released by Workerbee Records in Iowa. I'll post more information (along with artwork and a website) as I have it. In addition, a piece of my artwork will be auctioned as part of a fundraiser for The Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, DC. The Whitman-Walker Clinic is the leading provider of HIV/AIDS services in the DC metro area. Due to a shortage of funds, the clinic has been forced to reduce its services and might be even forced to close its doors because it simply does not have the money to continue serving the thousands of patients who rely on it for their care. The Washington Blade's June 10th article has more details on Whitman-Walker and the situation at hand. If this fundraiser (an art auction and benefit show) sounds like something you might be interested in, please contact Basla Andolsun (veganbasla@gmail.com) or Katy Otto (kalotto@hotmail.com). I hope you're all enjoying the summer.. I hope I get a chance to drive to Rhode Island and go to the beach!

3/24/2005 Hi everyone, First of all, if any of you have a chance to see Slint at any one of their reunion shows, please go. I saw them last Friday at Irving Plaza and they were better than I could have imagined. It's been a long time since I saw a band play where every single one of their songs was better live than recorded. Joe&Kerry and I saw Animal Collective at Bowery Ballroom a few weeks back, which was interesting but their live performance came and went. The set opened brilliantly but lagged in places, though I did enjoy the drumming and shouting and that they actually played "Kids on Holiday" as an encore when I wasn't expecting to hear anything from Sung Tongs. La ti dah. In other news, I've also moved my acoustic ghost stories, ghost songs and murder ballads to a Myspace profile, you can look and listen here: Hey, look! I'm on the internet. Or, Jasmine Dreame Wagner has a myspace. One of my tracks will be featured on a compilation released by Workerbee Records in Iowa. I'll post more information as I have it. Also important, I moved to a new apartment! Saying goodbye to 203 after three years was sad, but everyone moves on eventually, unless you own a house I suppose. Mikey IQ Jones took the torch and is turning my old window-lined room into a bird sanctuary with palm trees and aquamarine walls, which is most appropriate. I wish the best of luck to him and his parrots and hope that someday he has a chance to record the sounds of the pipes because honestly, they are better than most Black Dice records. But most importantly, if any of you are still sending mail to my old address (AKA the address on the back of Issue No. 2 of my zine, or to be specific, the "203" address), please stop!! I will not receive your letters and this makes me sad. Please send all correspondence to the "PMB #5" address listed below. I am for the moment sold out of zines, so please send your orders to Pander Zine Distro and Sew True. When I have more copies available, I'll post a note here.

1/29/2005 Hi everyone, It's been snowing a lot and I have a new computer, so I've been working on putting a bunch of ghost stories and murder ballads together with my Tascam and microphones. They're mostly me and guitar, sometimes other objects, instruments, and sounds. Hopefully, I will be doing some playing and recording over Valentine's Day weekend, all of which I am very excited for. In other news, I have writing forthcoming in the Indiana Review and Onthebus, a literary magazine out of Los Angeles. Finally, a reason for me to visit LA! Also, Jessica Disobedience excerpted two sections of Songs About Ghosts in the punk lit mag she edits, A Shout In The Street. I am for the moment sold out of zines, so please send your orders to Pander Zine Distro and Sew True. When I have more copies available, I'll post a note here. We still have copies of the Ladyfest Anthology for sale. The Anthology is a collection of women's writing featuring poetry and prose from Patricia Bailey, Emily Brandt, Susan Deer Cloud, Lauren Fanelli, Glen Finland, Jean Hedgecock, Anne Hellman, M. C. Hyland, Siel Ju, Melissa Klein, Karen Lillis, Katy Otto, Shannon Ronan, and Tara Wray, and was edited by Alaina Wong, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and Stephanie Neider. The publication is 75 pages, 5 1/2" X 8 1/4", a perfect-bound book with a full-color cover. Here's what it looks like (I designed the cover). I love Joni Mitchell's Blue.

1/19/2005 Hi everyone, Happy new year and happy January! It's snowing outside. Earlier I took a walk to get some coffee and the flakes melted on my face. I walked down Madison and by the glass atrium at 56th and thought about how much I loved that place when I was a kid. It's the middle of the winter and the sparrows are still singing in the bamboo trees. Anyways, I'm temporarily at a loss for words. I have plans for 2005 and a list of things to do that are important to me but I don't want to discuss them until they're in progress or better yet, finished. In the meantime, I'm sold out of zines, so please send your orders to Pander Zine Distro and Sew True. When I have more copies available, I'll post a note here.

10/30/2004 Hi everyone, It's getting to be about that time of year where my aunts begin to sport reindeer sweaters! Reindeer sweaters! Where did MY reindeer sweater go? I want my red one with white and gray reindeers. Here's some news: 1. The Ladyfest Anthology is here and done. Alaina, Stephanie, and I will be selling copies at the Ladyfest*East Festival this weekend. The Anthology is a collection of women's writing featuring poetry and prose from Patricia Bailey, Emily Brandt, Susan Deer Cloud, Lauren Fanelli, Glen Finland, Jean Hedgecock, Anne Hellman, M. C. Hyland, Siel Ju, Melissa Klein, Karen Lillis, Katy Otto, Shannon Ronan, and Tara Wray, and was edited by Alaina Wong, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and Stephanie Neider. The publication is 75 pages, 5 1/2" X 8 1/4", a perfect-bound book with a full-color cover. Here's what it looks like (I did the artwork and designed the cover). 2. Plus, I have a piece of a new story excerpted in Fiss Piss, a magazine out of Montreal, and I just had a poem accepted into the Indiana Review. I'm also still working on the cover art for Rachel Jacobs's new album. 3. I am going to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving! AND 4. I have eaten ice cream for dinner 3 times this week.

9/26/2004 Hi everyone, I've been busy with stuff, including a new job doing photo stuff at a photo stock agency that I LOVE. I'm going to be giving a reading at Hush Fest in Washington, DC, on October 9th. It's going to be at a fest hosted by the folks at Kiss Kill Books and the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop. I'm also doing some cover art for Rachel Jacobs and I can't wait to hear her new album! I'm a little disorganized right now but more soon I promise. HUSH FEST An evening of communication, poetry, and music. Bring food to share or art, music, crafts, and zines to trade. Music by: Homage to Catalonia Rachel Jacobs Kathy Cashel Mike Law Readings by: Katy Otto Wade Fletcher Jasmine Dreame Wagner Erik Gamlem Saturday, October 9th Flemming Center 1426 9th St NW Washington, DC 6PM $5 Proceeds benefit projects of Emmaus Services for the Aging. For info call 202-986-0681 or email events(at)dcinfoshop.org http://www.dcinfoshop.org http://www.kiss-kill.com

7/27/2004 Hi everyone, Starting July 25th, my zines are on display at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of their Art of Zines 04 exhibition, organized by the Anno Domini Gallery. Clickery clicky clicky click if you want to read more. For those of you who like buying things online with your credit cards, Songs About Ghosts is available through Atomic Books in Baltimore, Maryland, Fever Press in Winnipeg, and Stickfure Distribution in Atlanta, as well as all the other distros I have listed here. I also have handmade postcards featuring four different drawings of haunted houses and dead trees. If you'd like a set of four of them, please send $1 or three stamps. If you order zines from me, I'll probably just put a bunch in the envelope because honestly I'm proud of my skills at the copy place. On a closing note, here are some albums you should listen to and when you should listen to them: Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender. Early in the morning when you are driving home from somewhere far away and you are the only one awake in the car. Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come. Making out at three in the afternoon when both of you have blown off all your responsibilities to listen to music with the curtains drawn. Rachel's, Handwriting EP. Early nighttime, curled up at your desk with papers and pens, getting ready to draw. Yage, 3-17 October 1984. Biking through rush hour traffic! The Beatles, Abbey Road. Strolling through Central Park at eleven in the morning, when everyone is just starting to come out with their dogs and kids and bikes and you can wander around the hills, feel the breeze off the reservoir, and collapse in the middle of a sunny, grassy field. I hope you're having an amazing summer!

6/10/2004 Hi everyone, So next week I leave for tour with the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, giving readings in Brooklyn, Cincinatti, Cleveland, Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. I'll be reading and travelling with writers Nick Matamas from New York and Frank Duff from Toronto, plus more people depending on which city we're in. Come introduce yourselves! Here are the dates for the summer reading tour! Thurs. June 17, Brooklyn, NY. The Lucky Cat (245 Grand St., Williamsburg) 8pm. Sat. June 19, Cleveland, OH. Mac's Backs (1820 Coventry Rd.) 7pm. Sun. June 20, Cincinatti, OH. Sunflower Coffeehouse (2999 W McMicken Ave.) 8:30pm. Mon. June 21, Chicago, IL. Quimby's (1854 W. North Ave.) 8pm. Tues. June 22, Toronto, ON. Holy Joe's (651 Queen St. W.) 8pm. Wed. June 23, Montreal, PQ. Zeke's Gallery (3955 St. Laurent) 7:30pm. Thurs. June 24, Ottawa, ON. The Study Lounge, Embassy Hotel (25 Cartier St.) 7pm. I also have handmade postcards featuring four different drawings of haunted houses and dead trees. Perfect accessories for your summer mailboxes. If you'd like a set of four of them, please send $1 or three stamps. If you order zines from me, I'll probably just put a bunch in the envelope because honestly I'm proud of my skills at the copy place. I hope your summer is going well and that you are all spending lots of time kissing on rooftops and biking in the park.

5/12/2004 Hi everyone, I'm giving a reading this weekend, Sunday May 16th, at The House of Good Names along with Emily Brandt of Take Back The News, Katy Otto of Del Cielo and Exotic Fever Records, the ladies of Jane Doe Books, and Erik Gamlem of Kiss Kill Books in order to raise money for Ladyfest. For more information on everyone and on the event, read this.

4/14/2004 Hi everyone, So I'm back from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, almost five weeks between Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway. The weather was brilliant, a mix of warm and sunny and huge blistering snowstorms, which was wonderful. I spent the last long portion of my trip on the coastal steamer, trolling past the Arctic Circle, along the coast of Norway. I saw the Northern Lights, remote fishing villages, tremendous mountains, and only managed to feel seasick AFTER I'd gotten back on land. I wrote quite a bit while I was there, and am finishing a piece on the town of Paldiski, the site of a former Soviet nuclear submarine base in Estonia. For those of you who like buying things online with your credit cards, Songs About Ghosts is now available through Atomic Books in Baltimore, Maryland. You can order it online right here. Also! I am going on tour this summer with the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, giving readings in Brooklyn, Cincinatti, Cleveland, Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. Come introduce yourselves this June! I'll post more information when I have it. Our fundraiser for the Ladyfest Anthology is in two weeks, on Friday, April 30th, and will feature performances by Nakatomi Plaza, Welcome the Plague Year, and Rachel Jacobs. For more information, check out: http://www.ladyfesteast.org. The submission deadline has been extended until the beginning of May, so please send in your artwork, music, and writing!

2/23/2004 Hey all, So in exactly one week I'll be at the airport, on my way to Finland! I hope I feel better than I do right now, because being sick on an airplane sucks. Despite spending all weekend in bed, nursing my throat, the show on Friday at The House of Good Names was one of the best in a long time. John played a ton of catchy pop hits and ended with everyone in the room dancing and screaming along to a cover of "Hey Ya".. Then Emily Brodsky sang sweetly with her uke and accordian and occasionally cussed out the audience, Hot Dog Is My Hero charmed everyone with their brilliance and ballads about drinking Irish Rose in Tompkins Square Park, The Mountain Men crooned their post-apocalyptic-Simon-and-Garfunkel duets, Zeke from Brooklyn Browngrass awed everyone with his slide guitar, and lastly but not leastly, Kimya Dawson played for TWO HOURS, two wonderful hours of her own songs and show tunes and soft-rock hits. The nicest kids in the world came out for it, it was so wonderful seeing the living room packed with beautiful people singing along and holding hands. Today I gotta move out a whole bunch of clothes to my parents' place because I'm subletting my room while I'm away in Scandinavia. Also because once I get back John and A&O and I are going to roadtrip on down to Virginia, where hopefully I will table for Ladyfest*East 2004 at MacRock. We just planned a fundraiser for the Ladyfest Anthology, it'll all go down on Friday, April 30th, and will feature performances by Wage Of Sin, Nakatomi Plaza, Welcome the Plague Year, and Rachel Jacobs. For more information, check out: http://www.ladyfesteast.org. Submit! We like submissions! Also, check out some of my illustrations in Woven, a literary zine published by Moira of Moonrocket Distro in New Zealand.

1/7/2004 Happy New Year! Rachel and I just got back from another venture to Nova Scotia, one of my favorite places in the world. We spent a few days in a cabin in Cape Breton, hiking and making fires (the kind you keep in a woodburning stove) then ran back to Halifax for snow and shows and friends. We made it to the North of America reunion show, then saw the next incarnation, The Holy Shroud, who were amazing and I hope they make it down to New York sometime soon. Believe me, though, Brooklyn is a LOT colder than Scotia, it's not fair! Anyways, Songs About Ghosts will now be distributed by Pander Zine Distro and Microcosm Publishing. The fine folks at Fever Press have offered to publish a book for me, which sounds AMAZING. Neil sent me a copy of Happy Birthday, one of their novels that started out as a zine, and it's fabulous. And of course, even more good news, Hot Cross and This Ship Will Sink will be playing at The House of Good Names in honor of Valentine's Day and John McLean's birthday! I hope your holidays went well, and please keep in touch.