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The Quirk is printed and most have been mailed. Here's what people've been saying...

“You’ve sort of jumped to the head of the class. I expected the poetry to be first-rate with the cast of writers you put together, but the presentation is awesome. Beautiful, really. The interview with Winans was also really well done. Seriously, I loved it. Thank you for all your great work and I am so pleased to be included (and to be included in Quirk II). I am looking forward to getting my extra copies and sending them to friends around the country.”
– David J. Thompson, Poet, Winner of the 2006 and 2007 Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contests

“Well done… great poetry...killer photography...slick production....nice job....proud as FUCK to be in it.”
- justin.barrett, Poet/Publisher Extraordinaire

“The Quirk landed in my mailbox, also. The production is top shelf. Fuck, it's a g.d. WOODSTOCK of poetry. Hats off to you.”
- Don Winter, Poet/Co-Editor of Fight These Bastards

In non-Quirk news, my first review for Scene Point Blank is posted here. They picked my glowingly positive one instead of one of my funny scathing ones.

Thanks for listening.

Good Day

The New York Quarterly took a poem of mine, 'I Would've Made Nostradamus Look Like A Chump'.

Scene Point Blank also hired me as a reviewer, or, as I prefer to call it, a freelance music journalist, haw.

Rough night though.

Still, sweet.

Hey hey friends, a few bits'f news.

First of all, I got back from the Coca-Cola thing in Georgia, which was incredible. One of the most enjoyable experiences of my life.

Back here in Indiana, have been sick for a week but think I'm finally getting over it. Set a FIRM deadline for when The Quirk would be done, May 1st, which gives us a month to print/mail them. Expect it in your mailbox mid-June. Order whatever you want now, so we know how many to print.

I just got a letter yesterday from Christopher Robin over at Zen Baby saying he'd like to use three of my poems, "The Joke's On Him", "Answering Machine, or, The Delicate Art of Winning Back An Ex-Girlfriend Over the Phone When She Refuses to Pick Up", and "Like A Trip To The Dentist", in the next three issues of Zen Baby. Sweet. I love the layout of that zine, total sensory overload... it's definitely his own.

Heard back from Kat at remark., she's taking three poems as well, 'Mistake', 'Heredity', and 'When I First Heard That She'd Hidden Away In A Bathroom And Tried To Kill Herself' for the next issue of remark. Wahoo!

Also just got my contributor's copy of Poesy, which features my poem 'Graffiti'. Also has a hilarious interview with G. Tod Slone, where he proves, yet again, to be the biggest douche in the small press.

Right on soldiers. Take't easy!

Tell me this isn't the coolest fucking ad you've ever seen for a zine.

The Quirk, The Quirk, Flux Capacitor, The Quirk...

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Background photo by some creepy guy from Utah

Ah, the blog. Finally found five minutes to throw something up here.

The Quirk is coming along beautifully. Many of the people who read this blog have sent kind words our way, and I just wanted to say thank you for all of them. Many are featured in the 'Comments' section of the site! Anyway, the poems are selected, officially closed today when we accepted a David J. Thompson (one of my faves) poem. I promise you all, come release, this issue is going to kick every kind of ass imaginable. If not, your money back, guaranteed... though I'm pretty sure just about everyone reading this will be receiving a free copy anyway, haha. I'd offer you your time back, but I can't get this damn flux capacitor to work...

In Kaveh news, I just got an acceptance today from Brian Morriesy (who incidentally has a poem in The Quirk... ;) ) over at Poesy. My poem "Graffiti" will be appearing in Poesy... at some point. His is a really great mag, I've gotten my hands on four or five issues, and in terms of layout, nobody does it better (that I've seen). The content is pretty ace too! The guy definitely knows what he's doing.

Also, three of my poems made it into the West Memphis 3 Benefit Anthology, a zine supporting a great cause put together by Misti Rainwater-Lites... other poets in the issue include Pat King, J.D. Nelson, Paul Tristram, Doug Draime, Katharine Polenberg and Leopold McGinnis. Y'all should check it out, they're still taking subs, and it's for a damn fine cause.

Thanks much for reading, I'll try to update a bit more often from now on...

Back!

Well fellas, I'm finally updating...

Been busy as all hell with The Quirk, finally laid down the green to own TheQuirk.org and make the zine all legitimate and respectable... haw. Got a killer lineup of poets and artists that's guaranteed to blow you away or your money back. Working on making it as gorgeous as the words it features.

On a Kaveh-The-Poet note, I haven't been writing nearly as much as I ought to be lately... since I last posted, I've placed a poem ("I Was An Ugly Ten-Year-Old") in Amanda Oaks' WORDs DANCE, which is a beautiful zine done by a great lady. Also placed 3/3 poems in the West Memphis 3 Benefit Anthology ("Writer's Block", "She Told Me I Was A Fast Learner", and "Ambidexterity"), and another in Poems-For-All ("at the zoo"). Have submitted poems to Nerve Cowboy, Fight These Bastards, and Poesy... keep yer fingers crossed fer me....

Alright, still have miles to go before I sleep. Take care everybody!

-kav

Literary Quirkitude

Hey everybody, The Quirk is now taking poetry, short/flash fiction, and creative non-fiction submissions for it's inaugural literary edition. All the money it raises is going to a yet-to-be-determined charitable cause, so submit submit submit. Check out the link below to go to the website and read the guidelines, but really, it's nothing you haven't read before.

I'M A LINK, CLICK ME

A list of contributors as of 4:05 PM (ET), 2/23/2007: S.A. Griffin, justin.barrett, Dan Kopcow, David Blaine, JD Nelson, Michael Lee Johnson, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Oren Wagner, Glenn W. Cooper, Robert Plath, Steve Henn, YOU?

Been a while since I last posted, a small bit of news to report.

Resurrected The Quirk, started working on Vol. 2 Issue 3 today. It'll feature an interview with C. Allen Rearick and an interview with The Locust's Justin Pearson, as well as the typical laughtastic viscera.

Also, my poetic dry spell ended today, I wrote a new poem called "MISTAKE", it's not the best thing I've ever written or anything, but it felt DAMN good to write something again. Jesus. Let's hope it stays with me.

Placed a couple more poems in "remark." since I last posted, that's always a good thing. Working on an interview with the wise and venerable AD Winans for said zine.

Hope all is well with everybody, all is well here.


-kaveh

SUPERBOWL

It's an all midwest Superbowl, and I have no idea who I'm going for.

If you don't want to watch the whole thing, at least watch from 3:15 to 3:30...