Jordan Stempleman

My June 2012 mixtape (free to download):

http://www.mediafire.com/?djcto076v63i6l0

tracklisting:

1—Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO: Delia Derbyshire
2—Clouds: Deep Time
3—los-borrachitos: junior-y-su-equipo
4—Dumb Head: The Sharades
5—ALison: WHite Denim (cover)
6—A Man: Key & Cleary
7—Goldie: A$AP Rocky
8—2: Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
9—Stolen Car: Design
10—Are You Ready To Come?: U.S. Aries
11—Wish & Wonder: White Poppy
12—Beautiful Life: jj
13—I Love You: Lil B ‘The BasedGod’
14—LIMEADE: JEANS WILDER
15—Something New In Africa: Solven Whistlers
16—Monocultural Grid: Xander Harris
17—Feel Like Makin’ Love: Roberta Flack
18—Rockin’ In Rhythm: Jimmy Pratt with Lemmy Special And Miriam Makeba
19—Travellin’: The Jeremy Spencer Band
20—jeanette: porque-te-vas
21—Detroit-Tonight: THE NECESSARIES

TOMORROW!!!

http://thespeak-easy.org/2012/04/24/last-weekthis-week/

A COMMON SENSE READING SERIES PRESENTS: JESSICA BARAN, PHIL ESTES & DAN MAGERS

7PM, FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2012

IRVING AMPHITHEATER (Irving Building, Kansas City Art Institute, 4402 Oak St., Kansas City, MO. 64111)

JESSICA BARAN is the author of the poetry collection Remains to be Used (Apostrophe Books, 2010) as well as the chapbook of prose sonnets Late and Soon, Getting and Spending (All Along Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in Harp & Altar, Sink Review and the Tusculum Review; her art criticism has appeared in Art in America, BOMB Magazine, and the Village Voice, among other journals. She resides in St. Louis, where she’s the art writer for the Riverfront Times.

PHIL ESTES’ chapbooks are Gem City/Fountain City (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2009) and Children of Reagan (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2012). His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in: The Associative Press, DIAGRAM, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Lamination Colony, LUNGFULL!, West Wind Review and others. He lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

DAN MAGER’s first book of poems, Partyknife (Birds, LLC), was published in spring 2012. He is co-founder and co-editor of Sink Review, an online poetry journal as well as founder and editor of Immaculate Disciples Press, a handmade chapbook press focused on poetry and visual arts collaborations. He lives in Brooklyn.

http://acommonsenseseries.blogspot.com/2012/04/sommer-browning-dan-magers.html

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Check out the new DAYS ARE NOT TODAY Tumblr, a gallery of day name photos and poems from Jordan Stempleman’s No, Not Today. Click “IS TODAY NOT YOUR DAY?” for a ridiculously easy chance to win a free copy of No, Not Today.

nonottoday:

SUNDAY

I am researching a testimony that includes
wondering when do I drive on to get used to it?
And then there is the softer round, and then
there is enough. And just then, tooling past the secret of how all direction
just sits there, I come forward to wonder, well,
I can’t keep away every minute you’re not near. And you,
you’re by no means ever alone. It’s like stop
telling me I have a face. It’s like stop staring into the seasonal gap
where then I had more, then I had more
than I’d hoped for. And like the ancient saying I can’t believe
you invited them over again, I keep the lid on tight,
waiting for some law to protect my nervous system
for what it is.