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case sensitive
available at your local bookseller
and online at Ahsahta Press,
SPD, & amazon.com

first-book & other interviews: here

blogs:

$650 apartment for $650
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ada limon
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the blind chatelaine's keys
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both both
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bread and jam for frances
the brother swimming beneath me
the burning chair
caconrad
commutiny
cahiers de corey
can of corn
catherine daly's blog
chaxblog
chicago postmodern poetry
chicana poetics
chicks dig poetry
clay matthews
collin kelley
conchology
cosmopoetica
critical fiction
culture industry
dagzine
dbqp: visualizing poetics
delirious hem
the desert city
detainees
the dishwasher's tears
DIY poetics
DIY publishing
do gummi bears dream
dumbfoundry
effing blog
elective annoyance
elephant seals negate
elsewhere
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e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s
eyeball hatred 
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fringe matters
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harriet
here comes everybody
heuriskein
hg poetics
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human's animal
hyacinth losers
i am yer grammer
i'll show you mine
immoweth
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jeannine blogs
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little red's recovery room
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love and coffee
the lovely arc
lovers' last go around
luna
lutheran surrealism
mappemunde
maryrose larkin
micawberesque
mindful ramblings
minimalist concrete poetry
minor american
modern americans
mr. tong bliss' journal
narcissusworks
the neglectorino project
nervous unto thirst
never mind the beasts
thenewermetaphysicals
nice guy syndrome
nomadics
nothing to say and saying it
now then
odalisqued
omnidawn blog
paul hoover's poetry blog
the pangrammaticon
pantaloons
peek thru the pines
phactory
philly sound
poetry hut
poesy galore
poets' corner
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pseudopodium
pshares blog
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qbdp: the mailartworks
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rob mclennan's blog
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sandra alland's blog-like entity
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st*rnosedmole
the steinach operation
stephen vincent
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texfiles in bahrain
they shoot poets don't they
third factory
this is all your fault
this morning in poetry
tom raworth's notes
transsubmutation
twenty thousand thousand
ululations
understory
the unquiet grave
unreliable narrator
venepoetics
virgin formica
voices in utter dark
voix off
the well-nourished moon
what an errand knave
wild horses of fire
wind meals
wood s lot
the word cage
wordstrumpet
yes, starlings! yes!
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journals/small press/reviews:

1913
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above/ground press
absent magazine
action yes
ahsahta press
alice blue
apocryphaltext
big game
bird dog
blackbird
black lodge press
black ocean press
bookslut
the brooklyn rail
calamari press
cannibal
carve
chax press
circumference
coconut
coldfront magazine
conduit
the constant critic
cue
the cultural society
cutbank
cy gist press
cy press
diagram
dusie
effing press
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faux press e chapbooks
fewer & further press
flim forum press
free verse
galatea resurrects
g o n g press
gutcult
half empty/half full
the hat
hot whiskey press
handsome
h_ngm_n
hooke press
horse less press
house press
how2/barbara guest memory bank
jacket
katalanche press
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konundrum engine literary review
la petite zine
lame house press
lit
little red leaves
milk
mipoesias
new pages
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octopus
octopusbooks
omg press
omnidawn
onedit
the page
phylum press
poetry 365
the poker
portable press at yo-yo labs
rain taxi
realpoetik
rhino
rhubarb is susan
rose metal press
rust buckle
saltgrass
seconds
shampoo
skanky possum
sleepingfish
slope
sona books
spell
tool a magazine
three candles
transmission press
typo
ugly duckling presse
vanitas
wintered press
wire sandwich
womb
word for/word
xantippe
zafusy

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audio/radio/video:

AudibleWord.Org
The Continental Review
Frequency 
Kelly Writers House webcasts
Laurable
LINEbreak
miPOradio
miPOradio POdcast
Naropa archives
PENNsound
Rabbit Light Movies
to the sound
UbuWeb
a voice box

14 FEB 07

Keep the old blue notebook? or throw it away? How it was, that year in the month of her birthday: car windows smashed twice, living on the other side of town, another country, getting lost a lot. Visit B in Mexico, drive from California to the Jersey shore. Various dinner guests, none who see the paintings on the walls. "It's long slow work reorganizing my life, rearranging my loyalties." (Numerous i-n-g words. Trials of duration.)

12 FEB 07

Jennifer Bartlett interviews Andrea Baker, Jen Benka, Adam Clay, Bruce Covey, and me in the new issue of Saint Elizabeth Street.

"All artists are suspect. All artists are outsiders, and in this sense, queer."

"The idea that men are better than women is still pervasive--not just out there, but in here."

"Should poets work manual labor jobs and write poems at night in a windowless room?"

"Some of the pieces had incredibly strict structural guidelines--for instance, for 'beauty,' I googled the names of People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people and chose one designated word per site."

"Feeling that I had found my people, I immediately stopped using hairspray, bought black clothes, became a vegetarian, and took up writing."

Who said what? Find out here.

O Canada!

rob mclennan reviewed case sensitive at his blog yesterday. I'm really excited about reading in The Factory Series that rob curates in Ottawa and in Mark Trucott's Test Series in Toronto when I visit Ontario in May for the very first time.

10 FEB 07

It's always kind of windy there, coming from such a great distance. I see it from my windows. It's the very beginning. Raining ice, like a song alongside the song. There's no end to this feeling.

8 FEB 07

pen pal


He mentioned eventually finding his car keys in the freezer.



Asked if he'd need a jacket. 72 degrees there, 14 here.

6 FEB 07

Frank Sherlock Emergency Fund

from CAConrad:

Frank Sherlock was rushed to the hospital January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness which turned out to be a serious case of meningitis.  He needed emergency surgery, and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness.
 
The timing could not be worse as this attack of meningitis happened during the two month window in which Frank is without health insurance.

His friends have come together to help raise money at this critical time. We are reaching out to other friends and the poetry community on Frank's behalf. Please consider sending donations for his hospital bills, physical therapy, as well as his very expensive medications and other needs.

If you can make a donation by check or money order at this time please send it to Frank's longtime friend Matthew McGoldrick.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please make check or money order out to Matthew McGoldrick, and send to his address:

Matthew McGoldrick
1504 Morris St.
Philadelphia PA 19145

There will be a benefit show in Philadelphia in the very near future. If you would like to be notified of that event please e-mail CAConrad13@aol.com for the details.

UPDATE: You can now send a tax-deductible donation. Details are at PhillySound, here.

4 FEB 07


I've been getting the message lately that it's about time I answered my own first-book questions. I'm definitely doing the research. And some people out there have actually been thinking and talking about case sensitive. How do I feel about that critical response so far? Grateful, entertained, often surprised. Educated, uplifted!

Thomas Basbøll at The Pangrammaticon
Simon DeDeo at Rhubarb is Susan
Charles Alexander at chaxblog
Juliet Patterson in The Drunken Boat
Erica Wright in ForeWord Magazine
Matt Henricksen at Hyacinth Losers
Jennifer Bartlett at saintelizabethstreet
Matthew Thorburn at Now Then
Jack Kimball at Pantaloons: Tykes on Poetry

A couple of days before case sensitive came out, in response to my wondering aloud if anybody would read or review my book, Max began sending me an occasional email with the subject "Another Candid Testimonial." No text--just an attached jpeg dug up from here or there online, modified to include the case sensitive cover and a few words of praise that he put into the mouths or minds of the pictured. The images here are a selection from the growing collection. (Max offers his apologies to the individuals in these found photos, readers whose likenesses are now being publicly associated with case sensitive but who have not, as far as we know, read the book.)

Thanks guys.

2 FEB 07

14 sentences:

Even before we get on the road for real, we sell three books to Billy and his buddy Tom. Profit sharing, we pass along fifteen of that to Mike when we get to DC. Mike in a wheelchair on the corner. Mike in fatigues, sitting on the cold steps holding out a paper cup--he's everywhere.

Three women waiting for a light in the dark owl box. I read the printed explanation, discover that it lights up for one minute each half hour. "Those slow connections we talked about." A pattern like raindrops on the box's old glass, steadfastness rewarded. The box became lit, a candle-shaped bulb. We turned to look.

"If there were a category for dreams--like Flying Dreams, Tunnel Dreams, Talking-Animal Dreams--where you experienced life, almost your own life but what yours would feel like after a religious conversion--if there were, I'd say I'm having a recurring Converted Dream."

"You shouldn't be telling yourself stories about a better world."

"No, I think of it dark--I liked it better dark. But what stays with me is the way those women were willing to stand there and wait for the light."

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