Man, when's Jane Dark gonna write a poetry book?

The Collected Poems of Benmina Taquito

Acceptance Speech
All Angels Are Nine
Brown Would Be Ashamed of Me
Don’t Talk to Me Like That
Five Poems
Hereby Agreed
Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae
I Went to See Jersey Shore
In Norse souls of warriors
Occasionally Yours
Old Men and Andy Dick
Proustian Sensibilities
Shoulda Seen Me in the Aughties
You’re Just Saying Subtext out Loud

Both in equal parts...

"Both in equal parts are welcome
To come along
I'm inviting everyone"
- Joanna Newsom

A crowded train

is no excuse
for unlawful
sexual conduct

B&W Artists I Love

Joan Didion, essayist



Georgia O'Keefe, painter



Mina Loy, poet

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words on the street

via radio:

...drink one half your weight in ounces a day...

In Norse souls of warriors,

In Norse souls of warriors, their evenings lustily feasting immune and quaffing to a magnificent palace, nobly from battle were where they spent their mythology, the days fighting who died for diversion lasting in injury, and on freshly killed boar brought the free-flowing mead.

Free the Kitchen Carts

Everyone in Brooklyn is throwing away IKEA kitchen carts:

On the occasion of my first pub...

I just learned via Ron Silliman's blog that my poems have been published in TITS: A 24-Hour Journal of Poetry and Poetics. Here is the blurb from Silliman's Blog:

Tits: A 24-Hour Journal of Poetry and Poetics, no location given, Dec. 16-17, 2009. Includes Buck Downs, Theodora Danylevich, Tom Raworth, Lacey Hunter, Rod Smith, Giles Goodland, William Howe, J.E. Kielsgard, Catherine Daly, Lauren Bender, Jordan Davis, Ethan Louis Edwards, Kevin Thurston, Tom Orange, Edwin Torres, Amy King, Tim Atkins, Benmina Taquito, Dana Ward, K. Silem Mohammad, Juliet Cook, Benjamin Friedlander, Chris Funkhouser, Josh Staley, Justin Katko, James Wagner, Mel Nichols, R. Mutt

I'm so excited to be published alongside Rod Smith, Tom Raworth, K. Silem Mohammad, Justin Katko, et al...! I think I'll check my mailbox right now to see if the issue has arrived.

Greetings via Mina Loy

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.