Everything is moving

over to heatherchristle.tumblr.com.

People do that every now and then and now I am doing it.

See you in the new place?

hello yes hello

So my phone line has been very busy these last couple of days. It's been wonderful, strange, exciting, everything. If you want to call and hear a poem from the new book, go to thetreesthetrees.tumblr.com for the whole scoop.

Mazes

I had not made this connection before, but it is true. The poems look like mazes. This makes me bounce a little.

Looking for a New England

I'm heading to New England tomorrow and here's why:

1. Juniper Institute! I'll be teaching a craft session on trust, reading, writing, distance, and the technological space of the page for the adults, a craft session on similes for the young writers, moderating a Q&A session with Mark Doty, meeting with people for manuscript consultations, plus going to all these evening readings. The readings are open to the public, by the way, if you are in the area.
2. Book release! I won't be reading at the Institute this year, but I will be reading the night before, Saturday, June 18, at Flying Object, to celebrate the impending release of The Trees The Trees. Copies of the book will be there, along with wine and Ali Osborn's drawings and prints. More details are here.
3. Swimming! Where there is water I will be in it.
   

What else? A poem of mine makes it into John Gallaher's generational gathering of music and poetry that "raises the question" of sincerity. Someone in the comments says my poem "still gives me the feeling of an HTML Giant club. I don't get the feeling they'll return your calls." Ring ring, I am calling.

Speaking of calling, beginning on July 1, if you dial (413) 570-3077, I'll read you a poem (live!) from The Trees The Trees. More info is here.

soon

What Is Amazing & other books

Happy news! My third book of poems, What Is Amazing, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press.

The Trees The Trees is very nearly out itself! So many things! It has a very good cover!

Soon I will tell you a phone number you can call when TTTT is out if you would like me to read you a poem from the book. There will be no other talking I think.

In NYC this weekend I saw Cave of Forgotten Dreams and now my head is full of horses. Herzog hypothesizes at one point that the animals drawn with extra legs are meant to seem to be in motion. My friend and I were trying to imagine other reasons for the extra legs, like perhaps the artists were very hungry and dreaming of more limbs to gnaw.

3D movies make me feel hungover. U2?

Something new

Last summer I wrote some poems made out of words I heard on the radio, writing words in the order I heard them, though not writing every word I heard. Perhaps they are aural erasures? Untrustworthy transcripts?

I'm starting again, and sharing the results this time around. If you want to read them, they're at radiopoems.wordpress.com.

So far I've done "A-1-R The Ask 1 Radio Network: Vikki Ford Show," "A1A - The Ask 1 Archive Channel: Creation Lightship," and "A1PN - All One Psychic Network: Date Nite with Your Soul."

Three down, three hundred to go.