Miranda July + the band Horse Feathers = upcoming readings

Listening to the band Horse Feathers at the Mercury Lounge tonight and touching a Miranda July activity book last week resulted in a new project I have created. I also had a second coffee, breaking 2 coffee rules at once, and I have paid the price. If you watch for it, there may be a naming of said new project in passing in a future posting, or maybe not, I am feeling sneaky and caffistatic.

The next reading: May 9 at Cyclops in Baltimore, 7pm.

Coming up: May 21 at the KGB Bar. This will be my maiden voyage and I am trying to decide what I can read in front of people I know that won't reveal too much out of a portfolio of all confessional writings.

We'll Never Have New Year's

New Year's reminds me of all the resolutions big and small we make as a bargaining tool for ourselves to get through another year. 'We'll Never Have Paris' is a zine for all things never meant to be.

In the spirit of combination, I invite you to submit your secret 'never have new years' resolution, poem, haiku, blurb, photo or drawing. These will appear on the blog and on a facebook page. The winners will appear in print in Volume 4 and if a photo or drawing, possibly as the front cover. They can be printed as 'anonymous'.

A contest of prolonged failure, if you will.

The deadline is January 1.

neverhaveparis@gmail.com