tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63384892024-03-23T14:23:23.801-04:00Home-Schooled By a Cackling Jackal2004 - 2009RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.comBlogger2586125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-87031418762032702412009-05-02T10:53:00.002-04:002010-05-02T22:08:33.522-04:00<a href="http://www.reblivingston.blogspot.com"><img src="http://www.notellbooks.org/images/uploads/anubis-1-1.png"><br>Jackal Afterlife</a>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-86198434932221398382009-05-01T00:01:00.004-04:002009-05-01T00:29:22.818-04:00The Jackal has LandedThere are aspects of this blog I no longer enjoy. <br /><br />For a while I've considered calling it quits, but on the other hand, there are parts that I do enjoy. Sometimes I feel like this space is more of a clearing house. I feel like I created certain expectations and an obligation to write about certain things, in a particular way. It's not what I want to do on my blog anymore. I understand that these are self-imposed constraints, but I'm having a tough time shaking them.<br /><br />So I started a <b><a href="http://www.reblivingston.blogspot.com">new blog here</a></b>, a fresh start. If you're a reader of this blog, I hope you'll read and appreciate the new one. If you don't care for it, that's OK, don't read it. Just don't tell me that you wish I'd go back to doing this one. I'm sort of exhausted by it.<br /><br />The archive of Cackling Jackal will remain up indefinitely. If you're interested in topics I've written about in the past, like <a href="http://cacklingjackal.blogspot.com/search/label/publishing ">publishing</a>, you can still reference it all here. There's a handy search box in the top left corner.<br /><br />If you're interested in No Tell updates and news, please bookmark or add the <a href="http://www.notellpoetry.blogspot.com">No Tells blog</a> to your RSS Feed. I won't be posting that information on my new personal blog.<br /><br />I also maintain the <A href="http://twitter.com/notell">No Tell Twitter</a> page where I post poetry-related links and the occasional pithy comment. You can bookmark or add that to your Twitter feed.<br /><br />Thanks for the good times. <br /><br />More good times <a href="http://www.reblivingston.blogspot.com">here</a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-50649569211048480142009-04-30T14:23:00.004-04:002009-04-30T14:32:55.286-04:00New Lune on FridayThank you NaPoWriMo for helping me finish the last poems in my book. Now begins the summer of editing and rewrites. NaPoRevSum, or some crack like that.<br /><br />The poems will stay up on this blog until midnight.<br /><br />Then I will make a blog-related announcement.<br /><br />Here's your hint:<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.notellbooks.org/images/uploads/19-2-90.png"></center>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-42915074776714687652009-04-27T12:28:00.001-04:002009-04-27T12:31:41.644-04:00THUNK<a href="http://metaphysicalthinking.blogspot.com/search/label/reb%20livingston">Ryan Manning interviews me at <i>THUNK</i>.</a><br /><br />I think.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-16254754563199620452009-04-27T00:02:00.001-04:002009-04-27T00:04:14.806-04:00This Week at No TellLea Graham wakes greening this week at <i><a href="http://www.notellmotel.org">No Tell Motel</i></a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-78876919052741913542009-04-21T10:24:00.002-04:002009-04-21T10:30:00.285-04:00Just received my contributor copy of <a href="http://www.perseabooks.com/detail.php?bookID=47"><i>From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great</i></a> edited by Camille T. Dungy, Matt O'Donnell, & Jeffrey Thomson. <br /><br />If you're a teacher, there's an index in the back that attributes at least three "poetic strategies" to each poem. My poem's strategies are address; question/statement; repetition. <br /><br />Which are also the strategies of my life.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-68249439691411622702009-04-21T10:00:00.006-04:002009-04-21T10:58:50.726-04:00NaPoWriMo ParticipantsI updated this list and removed folks who haven't been posting poems. This list is for folks who are posting their NaPoWriMos. If you're doing NaPoWriMo, but not sharing your poems, that's cool, but that's not the point of these links.<br /><br /><A href="http://www.reenhead.com/versatile/versatile.php">Maureen Thorson</a><br /><a href="http://saintelizabethstreet.blogspot.com">Jennifer Bartlett</a><br /><A href="http://robinreagler.wordpress.com/">Robin Reagler</a><br /><a href="http://odalisqued.blogspot.com">Anne Boyer</a><br /><a href="http://papacookie.livejournal.com">Rusty Barnes</a><br /><a href="http://www.lbojengles.blogspot.com"> Lesley Jenike</a><br /><a href="http://www.intagliodupinblue.blogspot.com">Sophia Kartsonis</a><br /><A href="http://pageofwoeabsolved.blogspot.com/">Vicky Harris</a><br /><a href="http://corporatelibrary.blogspot.com">Noah Falck</a><br /><a href="http://spooksbyme.org/terminalhumming/">K. Lorraine Graham</a><br /><A href="http://beccaklaver.blogspot.com">Becca Klaver</a><br /><A href="http://lalizidice.blogspot.com/">Carmen Giménez Smith</a><br /><a href="http://cadaly.blogspot.com">Catherine Daly</a><br /><a href="http://www.negativewingspan.blogspot.com">Kirsten Kaschock</a><br /><a href="http://ovariessequins.blogspot.com/">Michelle Detorie</a><br /><a href="http://simeonberry.blogspot.com/">Simeon Berry</a><br /><a href="http://rikfiles.blogspot.com/">Rik Roots</a><br /><a href="http://savvyverseandwit.blogspot.com/">Serena M. Agusto-Cox</a><br /><a href="http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/">Linda - Nickers and Ink</a><br /><a href="http://chadparenteaupoetforhire.blogspot.com/">Chad Parenteau </a><br /><a href="http://pugnaciouspinoy.blogspot.com">Oliver de la Paz</a><br /><a href="http://www.fortorching.blogspot.com">Louise Mathias</a><br /><a href="http://citysleep.tumblr.com/ ">Nicole Steinberg</a><br /><A href="http://utahpoet.blogspot.com">Justin Evans</a><br /><a href="http://wikithara.blogspot.com">T.A. Noonan</a><br /><a href=" http://journal.wjsullivan.net">John Sullivan</a><br /><a href="http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/">Glenn Ingersoll</a><br /><a href="http://amyking.wordpress.com/">Amy King</a><br /><a href="http://www.ofkells.blogspot.com">Kelli Russell Agodon</a><br /><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/2009-national-poetry-month-poem-a-day-">Shann Palmer</a><br /><A href="http://curiousanimalsoftheworld.blogspot.com/">Susana Gardner</a><br /><a href="http://www.matthewthorburn.blogspot.com/">Matthew Thorburn</a><br /><A href="http://perfect-lines.blogspot.com/">Nathan Logan</a><br /><a href="http://vrzhu.typepad.com/vrzhu/">Dan Vera & Michael Gushue</a><br /><a href="http://astrangeflower.blogspot.com ">Stephanie King</a><br /><a href="http://jillypoet.wordpress.com/">JillyPoet</a><br /><a href="http://www.varytheline.org/">Peg Duthie</a><br /><A href="http://ifalookshouldaprilme.blogspot.com/ ">Paula Mendoza-Hanna</a><br /><a href="http://veace.blogspot.com">Steph Rogers</a><br /><a href="http://www.lizardsintheleaves.blogspot.com/">'Zann</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloofbooks.com/news.html">Bloof Poets</a> and <a href=" http://bloofbooks.com/2009/03/bloof-podcast-player.html">Bloof Podcast</a><br /><A href="http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/forumdisplay.php?f=55">PPFA Forum</a><br /><a href="http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/">Writer's Digest Poetic Asides</a><br /><br /><br />Leave a note in the comment field or shoot me an e-mail with your name and link if you'd like to be added to this list.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-401343711811168942009-04-20T00:03:00.001-04:002009-04-20T00:05:00.125-04:00This Week at No TellLaine Ballard lets it run through, be used and depleted this week at <i><A href="http://www.notellmotel.org">No Tell Motel</i></a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-2969842782568917492009-04-19T23:54:00.002-04:002009-04-19T23:58:47.381-04:00I'm behind on NaPoWriMo, I've had a headache since yesterday after I got home from the bookfair and haven't been able to write. I'm no <a href="http://brent-goodman.blogspot.com/">Brent Goodman</a>. Speaking of whom, I'm glad to hear is back home and recovering.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-12437430723588511602009-04-17T16:54:00.002-04:002009-04-17T16:57:25.736-04:00Another NaPoWriMo PodcastListen to me <a href="http://bloofbooks.com/2009/03/bloof-podcast-player.html">kill some poem characters here</a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-32619522503756322932009-04-17T12:59:00.003-04:002009-04-17T13:00:53.599-04:00Small Press Fair @ Bethesda Literary Festival TomorrowHey, No Tell Books (i.e. ME) will be at the <a href="https://www.writer.org/events/freeEvent.asp?id=428">Small Press Fair at the Bethesda Literary Festival</a>. Noon to 5 p.m. <br /><br />Come by and say hello.<br /><br />And BUY some books!<br /><br />Meet editors and publishers of literary journals and small presses at the Small Press Fair. Participants include The National Endowment for the Arts, Abbey, Barrelhouse, Cherokee Books, The Delmarva Review, Gargoyle/Paycock Press, GirlChild Press, Gival Press. Kings Estate Press, Little Patuxent Review, little press books, No Tell Motel, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Pretend Genius, Settlement House, Toad Hall Press, The Santa Fe Writers Project, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and Wineberry Press. FREE event.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-58933387731423109252009-04-16T16:31:00.003-04:002009-04-16T16:36:32.622-04:00I almost divorced Chris today.<br /><br />It's a good thing we don't live in a country where saying it three times makes it true.<br /><br />He showed up to Gideon's parent/teacher conference wearing Teva sandals with thick wool socks.<br /><br />I'm still not sure I won't divorce him for that. <br /><br />I mean, he went to work like that too.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-11965857804385400252009-04-16T01:12:00.003-04:002009-04-16T01:18:54.610-04:00Who lives? Who dies? <i>God Damsel</i> is practically a slasher flick. Serious body count.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-61367439226965699962009-04-15T16:54:00.004-04:002009-04-15T17:03:14.309-04:00Print Isn't Dead After AllMy sappy "I want to help" side just signed me up for 3 year subscriptions to both <i>Yoga Journal</i> and <i>Body and Soul</i> magazines. <br /><br />I need to stop answering my doorbell.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-22722609594485266352009-04-13T20:22:00.003-04:002009-04-13T20:27:23.470-04:00Amazonfail & The Cost of Freedom<blockquote><a href="http://blog.vromans.com/amazonfail-the-cost-of-freedom/">This is more important than that, and now is the perfect time to think about whether you want to trust one company to dominate the book market, or any market, for that matter. The benefit of having a rich, diverse ecosystem of vendors and suppliers has never been more obvious: many sources of information equals choice, and choice equals freedom. It’s actually your freedom that’s at stake here, and putting things back the way they were, fixing the notorious “glitch,” won’t change that. Because your freedom was at stake long before this recent de-listing experiment. Anytime you limit yourself to fewer suppliers, especially of something as vital as information (and if you purchase a Kindle, you’re effectively doing just that, limiting yourself to a single information provider), you’re putting yourself at the mercy of that provider.</blockquote></a>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-86777774737217014312009-04-13T12:54:00.001-04:002009-04-13T12:55:35.786-04:00Again, <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/10/28/amazon/">a long history of abusing its power and position</a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-60660592003735581892009-04-13T00:02:00.001-04:002009-04-13T00:04:11.480-04:00This Week at No TellBrian Foley freckles on the lampshade this week at <i><a href="http://www.notellmotel.org">No Tell Motel</i></a>.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-33836909740965103672009-04-12T21:45:00.006-04:002009-04-12T22:06:47.484-04:00Boycott, SmoycottJust buy your books, DVDs, electronics, etc. elsewhere. <br /><br />While you still have that option. <br /><br />Amazon has a long history of abusing it's position and influence. <br /><br />They've been screwing over small and POD publishers for a long time.<br /><br />Not only does Amazon not contribute anything to your community (works hard to shirk local sales taxes), <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2213037/">it doesn't contribute to Seattle where it's headquartered</a>. <br /><br />Do we really want a company with that track record to be our retail overlord? <br /><br />Keep buying from them and you'll always be buying from them.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-9860801752777915112009-04-12T17:26:00.008-04:002009-04-12T18:32:25.773-04:00Finally, a Safe Online Book RetailerThere's about a trillion reasons not to shop at Amazon, I mentioned a few here before (you can search on "amazon" on this blog, if you're unaware). But if you need another reason, here's yet <a href="http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293.html ">another</a> and <A href="http://booksquare.com/open-letter-to-amazon-regarding-recent-policy-changes/">an open letter</a> in response.<br /><br />* * * <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/amazon-deranks-gayfriendly-books-the-twitterverse-notices.html">Here's an article by the <i>LA Times</i></a><br /><br />Out of curiosity, I searched on the names of some gay poets to see if their books still had sales rankings. One search what stood out was my search on C. Dale Young's name. His porny books no longer have sales rankings. I feel very protected now. One of his covers depicts a dude's nipple and when that book arrived at my house I had no idea how to explain it to Gideon. <br /><br />Anyhow, in that same search if you scroll down a few titles, someone with the name of Dale C. Phillips, author of <i>Young People Fucking</i> (HOTTTT, I know), has a sales ranking (#920,974 at this time). Well, that's probably straight YA fiction and perfectly OK. I ordered a copy to read to Gideon. We're taking part in some program at his preschool that if we read for a certain amount of time each week, he gets a coupon for a free Pizza Hut personal pizza. As a parent, I appreciate how much easier Amazon has made my life. <br /><br />Oh and if you're <a href="http://www.notellbooks.org/harlot">a pretty lady hugging a giant penis</a>, your Amazon sales ranking still exists. <br /><br />At least until somebody pokes out an eye.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-39872061300998530862009-04-12T16:55:00.002-04:002009-04-12T16:57:14.841-04:00It's Another No Tell TattoosDay<a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.com/2009/04/rebecca-loudons-bee-tattoo.html">Rebecca Loudon's Bee Tattoo</a>RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-61334698302022337722009-04-12T16:16:00.003-04:002009-04-12T17:22:38.171-04:00<a href="http://probablyjustastory.blogspot.com/2009/04/conversations-and-connections-part-2.html">Can you name these "indie lit giants"?</a> Hah hah.<br /><br />I didn't do yesterday's NaPoWriMo cause I was too exhausted after the Conversations and Connections conference. Amy Hempel, the keynote, was a total no show, so they tacked on an hour to the speed dating which pretty much did me in. <br /><br />Today I'm exhausted from Easter morning festivities, so tonight I'll write two exhausted poems. That's OK, I'm almost finished writing <i>God Damsel</i>, so now it's just a matter of killing off all the characters. That shouldn't take that much energy, should it?RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-10109553550769826722009-04-12T15:31:00.003-04:002009-04-12T15:45:35.487-04:00Ocho 23<a href="http://issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/ocho23?mode=embed&viewMode=presentation&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml">Online publication</a> - <a href="http://issuu.com/search?q=mipoesias&cr=all&lan=en&dsp=text&num=10&st=document,page,user">More <i>Mipoesias</i></a><br /><br />Guest edited by Grace Cavalieri<br /><br />Featuring: Anne Caston, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sarah Maclay, Ed Zahniser, Judith Harris, A.B. Spellman, Cathy Eisenhower, Kenneth Carroll, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Ethan Fischer, Patricia Gray, Brian Gilmore, James. H. Beall, Laura Orem, Sonja James, Merrill Leffler, Reb Livingston, Kim Roberts, Hope Maxwell-Snyder, Regie Cabico, and Rose Solari.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-44200108941625439222009-04-10T21:09:00.002-04:002009-04-10T21:18:57.502-04:00<A href="http://www.johnmadera.com/2009/04/composite-list.html">This Little Monster: Recommended Novellas</a><br /><br />Recommendations by Leni Zumas, John Dermot Woods, Kevin Wilson, William Walsh, Justin Taylor’s, Joe Stracci, Matthew Simmons, David Shields’s, Peter Selgin, Christine Schutt, Bradley Sands, Tim Russell, Adam Robinson, Cooper Renner, Kathryn Regina, Ben Pester, Kimberly King Parsons, Ben Myers, Clayton Moore, Carole Maso, Michael Martone, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, John Madera, Josh Maday, Lorette C. Luzajic, Gary Lutz, Sean Lovelace, Reb Livingston, Catherine Lacey, Lee Klein, Paul Kincaid, Michael Kimball, Sean Kilpatrick, Michael Joyce, Shane Jones, Jac Jemc, Jamie Iredell, Lily Hoang, Christopher Higgs, John Haskell, Jim Hanas, Amelia Gray, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Renee Gladman, Molly Gaudry, Timothy Gager, Brian Evenson, Scott Esposito, Nicolle Elizabeth, Jackie Corley, Jimmy Chen, Tobias Carroll, Blake Butler, K. Kvashay-Boyle, Daniel Borzutzky, Crispin Best, Matt Bell, Ken Baumann,Nick Antosca, J.R. Angelella and Steve AlmondRLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-70612265283910979702009-04-10T13:56:00.002-04:002009-04-10T14:06:59.777-04:00Speaking on relevancy, there are things one deems relevant and then there's everything else that one doesn't recognize as relevant. <br /><br />Anyone who believes to know the full picture is deluded.<br /><br />I sometimes have dreams where the man I'm with (either Chris or one of my many dream-boyfriends, I have a very busy unconscious dance card) tries to give me a key. In every one of these dreams I scoff and say I don't need that silly key. I can climb out the tiny bathroom window instead.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6338489.post-50292813127429454092009-04-10T10:50:00.003-04:002009-04-10T10:53:56.982-04:00NaBikeBuildMo<img src="http://email.ops-netman.net/picts/colnago-04-2009/13/IMG_1596-13.JPG"><br /><br />Last night Chris finished building his new bike.<br /><br />During the warmer months I'm what they call a bicycle widow.RLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11664518356375046609noreply@blogger.com2