A few years back, while attending the &Now conference on innovative writing at Lake Forest College in Chicago, I was introduced to the concept of spam poetry. For some, this exercise simply takes the form of a kind of poetic version of Duchamp's "found object": take the spam email and, without reshaping it in any…
The Matter of the Krupa Manuscript
This is an experiment in film, music, and short fiction I prepared in advance of a reading I gave at the University of Maine in 2007. It blends clips of Gene Krupa, Krupa's music, my photographs of Philadelphia and other urban locales, and excerpts from my short story, "Gene Krupa's Never-Before-Published Science Fiction Story."
&Now Conference
I'm looking forward to participating in the &Now Conference of innovative writing at University of Buffalo in October. I'll be a panelist on a panel discussing the life and work of novelist Paul West. I'll also be a panelist on a panel taking up influences of Dada and Surrealism. The conference will take place in…
Opening Passage of Green, My Backburner Golf Novel
Miff guided the Conculator down the flat, gently curving ribbon of I-95 through North Carolina toward South, stopping only to pee, fuel up, and grab a handful of fresh cigars from the barn-sized humidor at J.R.’s in Selma. When he’d left Pittsburgh, it was thirty-five degrees and sleeting. Here, in the Heart of Darkness, the sun shone on the windshield and offered him the warmth that always made him forgive Dixie its sins.
Ed Desautels' Maximum Fiction 