Mrs. Maybe Has Moved

Hello to you and you and you,

Mrs. Maybe has moved to a new website:

http://mrsmaybe.wordpress.com/

All of our business, and your business will be conducted there. K?

But Seriously...

Mrs. M is really, doubtlessly here, although distributing awkwardly and unevenly.

Use the Paypal button, or write us at mrs.maybe@gmail.com if you're interested in trades:

we're open to ideas.

Who's Inside:

Brandon Brown

Sara Larsen

Julian T. Brolaski

Lindsey Boldt

K. Silem Mohammad

Emily Grossman

Rob Schlegel

CAConrad

Judith Goldman

David Highsmith

Sara Mumolo

Nada Gordon

Jon Davis

Amber DiPietra

Dana Ward

Mrs. Maybe #3 Has Arrived

Finally, your 3rd Mrs. Maybe is, like, available.

Mrs. Maybe #3 Update

Hey There Federalistes,

Catherine, Lauren, and myself (Jared) are busily finishing up figuring out the contents for MM3 - we're pleased because it's gonna have some pretty good varieties and/or examples of the poesie. Hang tite, and if you need to tell us something, drop us a line at mrs (dawt) maybe (atta) gmail (dotta) com

Be cool. Listen to Jim Lauderdale. Get empathic with the durt, and remember, they're not cockroaches unless they're in your house.

Jared as the Contessa

Early Autumn in the Middle West

Mrs. Maybe Conspirators Reunite in the middle of the country:

Friday, September 18th - Scott Inguito & Jared Stanley, at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI

http://www.woodlandpattern.org/

Saturday, September 19th - Scott Inguito & Sandra Lim, Quimby's, Chicago IL

http://quimbys.com/blog/store-events/scott-inguito-and-sandra-lim-read/

Sunday, September 20th - Scott Inguito, James Shea, and Jared Stanley, at Avol's Bookstore, in Madison, WI

http://avolsbookstore.com/events.html

Wednesday, September 23rd - Kate Greenstreet & Jared Stanley, The Danny's Reading Series, Chicago, IL

http://www.noslander.com/dannys.html

Thursday, September 24th - Jessica Savitz & Jared Stanley, Prairie Lights Books, Iowa City, IA

http://www.prairielightsbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Crag Hill

Dang! Wish we would've made it to his Portland Reading:

http://www.ditchpoetry.com/craghill.htm

From The Alternative Weekly

Portland Visitation

Mrs. Maybe People in Portland.

Thursday, August 13 JARED STANLEY & LAUREN LEVIN 6 PM, Valentine's, 232 SW Ankeny

Friday, August 14 JARED STANLEY & SCOTT INGUITO 6 PM, Pushdot Studio, 1021 SE Caruthers

All This Stuff

Adventures!

A Voice Box

West Wind Review

Rabbit Light Movies

Mary Magazine

Satan's Lagomorph Blots Out the Sun!

Some Book Made of Forest Readings

My (Jared's) first book, Book Made of Forest, is just out from Salt Publishing. I'll be doing a couple of readings from it in Northern California, at these fine venues:

May 29th
w/Scott Inguito and David Highsmith
Canessa Gallery / 708 Montgomery St in San Francisco / 8pm
(This one's kind of a book release party)

June 19th
w/Scott Inguito
A New Cadence Reading Series / Santa Cruz / (more info forthwith)

June 25th
Second Time Around Books
524 W Main St
Merced, CA 95340
(209) 723-9521

Come see my voice. Info about the book is HERE

As a related issue, Salt Publishing's been having some intense financial struggles. If you've been looking for a good time to get some Salt in your cereal, this would be it. Check it:

Just One Book


Thank you from Jared.

J. Moxley's Clampdown

That "Clampdown" is an incredible book - rhetorical, somehow distanced and utterly present in each of its extended scenarios and musings...this is major poetry. Her poem "The Occasion" encapsulates like nothing else I've read what it was like to live through the Bush era. This stands along Dugan's "When McCarthy Was a Wolf Among a Nation of Queer Queers" as a depiction of some history. Just breathtaking work.

-J

Compleynt

Ugh, could somebody tell the poets to stop writing essays about language! Or essays about reviews! Let's be shamans and talk about the soul, or the frogs. I love Chad Sweeney's poem in the Coconut Magazine.

I don't know. At least be as useful as therapists, but less about you.

-J

Mrs. May Be-In

To hear some of the contributors to Mrs. Maybe in their natural habitat, please consider attending a reading celebrating the release of Mrs. Maybe the Second.

Featuring The Claire Becker, The Bill Luoma, The Catherine Meng, The Erin Morrill, The Cynthia Sailers, The Andrew Kenower, and perhaps some other kool "bands-without-musicians"
or what-have-you type artists.

Sunday, May 10th
3pm

Catherine Meng's backyard
1825 Derby Street Apt. D
1st block west of MLK on the right.
ph: 510-981-0495

Grilled foods and or red beans and rice will levitate if you use a fork.

Shoe Blogging

Salt's Crashaw Prize Blog has posts from the Crashaw peoples today. I'm writing about shoes, I think I sound kind of crazy, and the last bit is a lie b/c I just got a sick pair of opening ceremony shoes in beige, turquoise.

My post is at the bottom of the page, Here

Barbara Jane Reyes on Reading at UCM

Right Here

The Man With the Materials

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/design/05fink.html

friday, saturday

tomorrow night, friday march 20, mrs. maybe editor catherine meng and mrs. maybe contributor james shea read fantastically at studio one, doors open at 7:00.

night after, saturday march 21, mrs. maybe beloved catherine theis, mrs. maybe contributor james shea, and mrs. maybe admired poets & editors of try, sara larsen and david brazil, read phantasmagorically at canessa park, reading at 8:00.

oh, and jared, could you link to the full post about the young poets reading? i don't get it, though i would like to talk to you. or tell me what you think, and i will talk to your opinions.

Hell Yeah Yes!

Call me Commissioner. Today I was appointed to the Merced Bicycle Advisory Commission.
I wonder if I need a tie.

-Jared

Huh?!? What!?!?

From Martin Earl's post regarding whether the YOUNG POETS read:

Seen in the light of cognitive neuroscience it is easier, and less emotionally fraught, to begin to understand why poetry, and by extension, literature and erudite culture in general, is already well along the road to extinction. It is a question of stimulus; the world is changing how we feel about the world, and the aesthetic products which derive from the need to articulate those feelings are changing as a consequence. Since poetry is now written largely without rules (or written with self-invented rules), since the common craft of metrics, rhyming, quantifying are no longer taught, largely dispensed with by the community, the result is a less universal and a more personal poem, a poem that can no longer be “read”, except by the writer and the writer’s closest cohorts – those who know the language. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this. There is simply no need in today’s world to write or to read epics composed in ottava rima which tell the life-stories of unlikely heroes.

Anyone? Let's talk.