Video footage of PULL RELEASE PARTY!! BE ABOUT IT!!!

Evan Karp of Litseen came to the Be About It: Pull party and recorded the reading!

Check it out below, I have the entire playlist posted here, so you can hear all the writers who came out that night! There were ten total, but everyone kept it short and sweet.

Seriously, cheers to Evan, and cheers to all of the contributors! You all RULE!!!




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We have ZINES!

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For just one Abraham Lincoln, you will get a power-punched zine full of amazing up and coming and established writers and artists. Act now and I will mail the zine to you with a personalized little drawing :)

I got them printed on Friday, the day before the release party, and they look beautiful. Jillian Knox did the layout, and Amy Berkowitz drew the cover.

We colored in a bunch of the covers before and during the party. It was fun and it felt right. The cover is basically inviting you to add color and make it your own.

If you buy a copy, let me know if you want me to color in your cover or if you would prefer a blank version to color in yourself. If you decide to color it in yourself, I would love to see the result so be sure to email me a pic!

Here are some of the covers I colored in. I wish I had taken photos of the zines at the party-- people were getting really creative. One on of them, the cat on the back was wearing glasses and an NWA t-shirt.

[Tsidenote: I had a whole thing written here about the party and the reading and it somehow got deleted. I'm going to try to re-create what I had written before, I liked the way it sounded.]

The party and the reading were both a blast. Amy Berkowitz, Carleen Tibbetts, Carrie Hunter, Daniel Suarez, Jayinee Basu, Jeff Von Ward, Jesse Prado, Nathan Keele Springer, Paul Corman-Roberts, and Zack Haber all read a few pieces in our backyard in front of a large sequoia tree.

The scene was fun and different-- it was nice to be outside, among the greenery and city wildlife. Sparrows were chirping and crows were cawing during the reading, responding to the poetry. At one point during Carrie Hunter's reading, a crow called out right before Carrie read "Quiet," the next line in her poem. The audience erupted with laughter, it was perfect.

Throw some roses on the streets. We killed them.

A horrible dream.

I had one of the most horrific dreams that I've ever had in my life last night. It felt real and it was so graphic and so upsetting that it woke me up unsettled.

I dreamed that my cat jumped out of my childhood bedroom window, three floors up, to Fitzwater street below. She landed on her feet safely, but I was scared for her because she is not used to being outside, especially on a city street.

I called down to the people who were watching all of this happen and asked if they could grab Sookie for me. No one moved. I called out for Sookie and she started to cross the street, but then ran up Fitzwater toward 9th street. One person said, "you better hurry."

I ran down the three flights of stairs, flung the door open, and ran down Fitzwater calling "Sookie! Sookie!" I heard a crash, I saw smoke, and then I heard a sad little whimper and saw Sookie hobbling over to me on one leg. The other three were missing, just bloody stumps.

Then I screamed and I woke myself up. She was sleeping on my feet.

When I had fallen asleep earlier, we were spooning.

Tin Can performs at Quiet Lightning: May 3, 2013

I have a poetry persona named Tin Can. She is made of Campbell's Tomato Soup and likes to rap and read scary stories.

Last Friday Tin Can went to Oakland and performed at Quiet Lightning.

This is how it went down. The name of the piece is "An Empty Tin Can."


LOL, I am the hugest dork.