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Arts & Crafts is a freely-distributed album of poems and informal essays in both audio and video formats. For a more complete picture of what I'm trying to do with this album, take a listen to "Intro" in the Audio section. The Video section is not bonus material - several of my poems have to be seen to be fully understood. If you're new to my work, I recommend starting with "ADD TV," "Sign of the Turtle," and "Presence (essay)" from the Video section and "There will be no reinvention of the wheel" and "Persona (essay)" from the Audio section.

While embedded Flash players are cool, most web browsers these days will automatically start playing the following files with the appropriate program. Just use a normal click to start playing an mp3 or video file. To download, right-click (with Windows or Linux) or CTRL-click (with a Mac) and Save-As. The audio files are tagged such that they will arrange themselves in the proper order in iTunes, Amarok, Winamp, or whatnot. I lack the ability to do the same with the Video files, so pardon the odd filenames - they're present to help you keep the videos in order. If you're going to stream the video, I recommend using the smaller file when available.

Audio

1. Intro: Opportunity (essay) mp3
2. There will be no reinvention of the wheel mp3
3. Persona (essay) mp3
4. Vom Kriege mp3
5. Adaptiveness of Behavior mp3
6. Mother Earth mp3
7. Esteban Peicovich and the Theory of Relativity mp3
8. Lists & Blocks (essay) mp3
9. Zahir mp3
10. In Absentia mp3
11. The best poetry reading I've ever been to (essay) mp3
12. Do you trust words? (a conversation with Logen Cure) mp3

Video

1. Tradition (essay) 82MB 13MB
2. ADD TV 64MB 11MB
3. Sign of the Turtle 48MB 7.9MB
4. Presence (essay) 155MB 26MB
5. Transformers (with Buck Hogue, Byron Jones, Stephen Sargent, and Travis Schafer) 86MB 14MB
6. We control the vertical (with Stephen Sargent and Travis Schafer) 72MB 12MB
7. Collaboration
8. ADD TV (footage of Tim Weaver's installation piece) [coming soon?]

Thursday, May 28 7:30am-2:30pm Portsmouth High School (Portsmouth, NH) I'm part of the group of local performance poets doing a demo slam/writing workshop for three senior-level English classes.

Tuesday, July 14 7:30pm Port Veritas (Portland, ME) I'm featuring at Port Veritas, the Portland, ME multimedia venue. Show up at 7 to sign up for the slam. My feature begins at 8:30.

Tuesday, August 4 7:30pm GotPoetry! Live (Providence, RI) I'm featuring at GotPoetry! Live down in Providence. The evening might get intimate.

Sunday, August 9 6:00-8:30pm The Poets' Asylum (Worcester, MA) I'm featuring at The Poets' Asylum. The open mic starts between 6 and 6:30pm, and I should go on between 8 and 8:30pm.

Wednesday, August 19 8:00pm-???? Poetry at the Cantab Lounge (Boston, MA) I'm featuring at the Cantab's weekly mixup of open mic, featured performer, and slam. Come early, stay late.

Thursday, August 20 7:00pm Beat Night at The Press Room (Portsmouth, NH) I'll be one of the four featured poets performing with the live jazz accompaniment of Groove Bacteria - I'm working on a Blues poem just for the event.

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