“If you are in prison [in Austria], you cannot be represented in any way. Your image is canceled.”
(Laurie Anderson, audio interview)

I like what she says about virtual escape and Tulva throat singers. Have you listened to her album (not new, from the 80s, but very good and smart) Big Science? Here is a version of “Superman” from that album

Also, I think you should take 2 minutes and 53 seconds to watch this video from her “United States Live” show.

I’ve been clumsy lately, putting too many things in my hands and then dropping them. My schedule is like that too. Am I supposed to be somewhere in addition to where I am right now? I can add things but I can’t subtract them, I have to do my taxes. Have I hurt your feelings too? There are small emergencies constantly threatening that I won’t mention. They’ll happen or they won’t. It might be silly to expect something to emerge from an emergency, something good or new, but I do.

“…no habitat, no person or persons curb significantly enough my own blundering about-ignorantly-and often harmfully. You can’t intend for me to elaborate here the harm I think I’ve done. Well, I won’t.” (Diane Williams in an interview in New York Tyrant)

Adam is building a hive, and in April, we’re going to get bees from someone who lives outside of the city and put them in the hive, in the city. Bees are sold by the pound.

Are there people I know who will get tired of receiving honey at each holiday?

Humans swarm, too. I was reminded of that when I watched this video. (sorry if you have to watch an ad for starburst or something first.)

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I think that the first issue of Dewclaw will be published in June. But more about that soon.

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I’m going to have a story, “Mr. Gray,” in 30 Under 30, an anthology edited by Lily Hoang and Blake Butler. I’m really curious about what this anthology is going to be like. I’m also curious about what it will be like to be covered with bees. I think it will be loud and tingly.

I’ve been rereading Kathryn Regina’s chapbook, As I Said. It’s free and it’s online, so if you want to read it, go here. (Yes, it’s issuu: if you don’t want to get dizzy, click on a page, then move the slider at the top of the screen to the left.)

Here are some lines I really like:

An ant is crawling into a hole looking for something
Something is written in the dirt and it’s nothing mystical
says the ant whose whole life is mystical [11]

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“You are moving around like one of those white butterflies
so close to being a moth.”

“Aren’t all butterflies moths the way squares are rectangles?”

“The way they handle light is different.”

If she looks at me long enough I will become something different
like a window pane or the reflection of a tree in the kitchen faucet

“Not completely different, just added to.” [16]

I made some changes to the dewclaw page:

I closed submissions for the first issue.
I updated the email address where submissions should be sent from now on.
Added some info about how dewclaw will look (perfect-bound).
And I updated the list of contributors a little. It isn’t complete yet.

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Also, a reason to come back here: interviews with Claire Donato and Amina Cain, which I’ll post in a month or so.