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Trumix.com listings available of Poetry Bus Tour Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Day 51: Portland UPDATE! More from Oregon! From the Oregonian From Studio 360 **** Five facts from Portland, OR: 1) In Portland, Oregon the Poetry Bus parked in front of Mississippi Studios, a wonderful sanctuary with the most amazing sound of anywhere we’ve been. 2) The wonderful Mississippi Studios had to turn people away from the door because more people than Mississippi Studios could handle [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 50: Ashland We’ve taken a lot of cabs on this trip, and we usually get a gruff no-response when we tell the cabbies what we’re up to (e.g. Cabbie: “So what brings you to our fair city?” Us: “Yay! Poetry reading! Yay!” Cabbie: “uh . . . ” Us: “We’re doing fifty in fifty days on a bus! The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 50: Ashland UPDATE!More from Ashland!Emergent Forms!****We’ve taken a lot of cabs on this trip, and we usually get a gruff no-response when we tell the cabbies what we’re up to(e.g. Cabbie: “So what brings you to our fair city?”Us: “Yay! Poetry reading! Yay!”Cabbie: “uh . . . ”Us: “We’re doing fifty in fifty days on a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 49: San Francisco The Make Out Room Edwin Torres at Club Deluxe Below are three lil movies from our amazing time in San Francisco. One of Andrew Joron reading with a backing band at Club Deluxe, one of Noelle Kocot getting her beatnik bravado on, and the last of Michael Zapruder performing a poem set to music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 49: San Francisco UPDATE!More from San FranciscoFrom The Believer****The Make Out RoomEdwin Torres at Club DeluxeBelow are three lil movies from our amazing time in San Francisco.One of Andrew Joron reading with a backing band at Club Deluxe, one of Noelle Kocot getting her beatnik bravado on, and the last of Michael Zapruder performing a poem set to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 47: Los Angeles At 3pm, when our reading at the Natural History Museum in LA had been scheduled to begin, the auditorium was empty. Juliana Spahr poked her head in despite my protestations and after seeing the pristine, untouched expanse of seating, she turned to me with her eyes gleaming. “This has always been a fantasy of mine,” she said. “To [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 47: Los Angeles UPDATE!From Chicken CornerThe Machine ProejctEmily Lacy*****At 3pm, when our reading at the Natural History Museum in LA had been scheduled to begin, the auditorium was empty.Juliana Spahr poked her head in despite my protestations and after seeing the pristine, untouched expanse of seating, she turned to me with her eyes gleaming.“This has always been a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 46: Los Angeles Even after a month or so of exposure, watching Linas skateboard around the bus with his camera still seems amazingly cool to me and everyone else on the bus, but, apparently, not to the police of Barstow, CA. On a long stretch of construction riddled highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, Linas dissappeared for half [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 46: Los Angeles Even after a month or so of exposure, watching Linas skateboard around the bus with his camera still seems amazingly cool to me and everyone else on the bus, but, apparently, not to the police of Barstow, CA.On a long stretch of construction riddled highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, Linas dissappeared for half [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 45: Las Vegas I want to hear Elvis sing one more time so I keep pressing this button. I believe Elvis sees into my soul and he sees I am on a fundamental leval a loser so he gives me nothing, only takes more and more numbers from my tally on the screen. Noodly doodly ding ding! From the monumental awe [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 45: Las Vegas UPDATE!More from Las Vegas!****I want to hear Elvis sing one more time so I keep pressing this button.I believe Elvis sees into my soul and he sees I am on a fundamental leval a loser so he gives me nothing, only takes more and more numbers from my tally on the screen.Noodly doodly ding ding!From [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 44: Roden Crater Carrying a drum up a tunnel to the sunset, nothing is adequate to communicate the experience of awe except poetry. We could have taken pictures or videos or I could write about what happened in the most precise prose, but nothing would come close. The tunnel. The light. The cool air and the sound. My whole life [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 44: Roden Crater UPDATE!More from Roden CraterMore on Roden CraterMore on Chris Cogburn****Carrying a drum up a tunnel to the sunset, nothing is adequate to communicate the experience of awe except poetry.We could have taken pictures or videos or I could write about what happened in the most precise prose, but nothing would come close.The tunnel.The light.The cool [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 42: Santa Fe A coyote and a catfish across the Rio Grande seen from a mineral bath in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and then on to Santa Fe. We welcomed Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young on to the bus this evening, two poets involved in a collaborative project made specifically for their time on the bus. Jen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 42: Santa Fe UPDATE!More from Santa Fe****A coyote and a catfish across the Rio Grande seen from a mineral bath in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and then on to Santa Fe.We welcomed Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young on to the bus this evening, two poets involved in a collaborative project made specifically for their time on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 41: Marfa, TX Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 41: Marfa, TX UPDATE!More from Marfa!**** Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 40: Toward Marfa, TX We left Austin re-fueled with breakfast tacos and biodiesel (yum!) with the hope of making it to Marfa, but we could only get to the Balmorhea Springs where we pitched a wang dang doodle around the Matvei stoked campfire (sorry no pictures). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 40: Toward Marfa, TX We left Austin re-fueled with breakfast tacos and biodiesel (yum!) with the hope of making it to Marfa, but we could only get to the Balmorhea Springs where we pitched a wang dang doodle around the Matvei stoked campfire (sorry no pictures). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 39: Austin, TX Sultry Woman’s Voice: It’s nighttime in the big city. The Poetry Bus sits in a cul de sac in Texas after a day at the Menil Collection in Houston and then at the Big Red Sun building in Austin. A grackle shrieks in a tree and the smell of guano drifts from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 39: Austin, TX UPDATE!More from Austin!Effing Press****Sultry Womans Voice: Its nighttime in the big city. The Poetry Bus sits in a cul de sac in Texas after a day at the Menil Collection in Houston and then at the Big Red Sun building in Austin. A grackle shrieks in a tree and the smell of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 38: Houston UPDATE!More from Houston!Aurora Picture Show!The Menil Collection!Surrealist Lunch!More Surrealist Lunch!****In Houston, the fourth biggest city in America, we traveled to a homey neighborhood called Houston Heights where Andrea Grover had turned an old Baptist church into an indie cinema house called the Aurora Picture Show.Across the street from the picture show, Linas and I talked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 37: New Orleans Five from New Orleans:1) Café Du Monde, which is, no matter how full of tourists, the best place in America to read the paper and eat breakfast while listening to Dixieland Jazz, especially after a long drive through the night from Tuscaloosa in the bumpiest bunk known to poetry watching the sun rise over FEMA trailers.2) Jan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 37: New Orleans The VESTIGES Project****Five from New Orleans:1)Caf Du Monde, which is, no matter how full of tourists, the best place in America to read the paper and eat breakfast while listening to Dixieland Jazz, especially after a long drive through the night from Tuscaloosa in the bumpiest bunk known to poetry watching the sun rise over [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 36: Tuscaloosa, AL Hey there Tuscaloosa!T-Town!The Tusk!Could we have had more fun in Tuscaloosa?Maybe.If Bear Bryant and Stokely Carmichael had challenged us to a game of doubles Hi-Li, but otherwise probably not.How awesome is this?And this? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 36: Tuscaloosa, AL UPDATE!More from Tuscaloosa!****Hey there Tuscaloosa!T-Town!The Tusk!Could we have had more fun in Tuscaloosa?Maybe.If Bear Bryant and Stokely Carmichael had challenged us to a game of doubles Hi-Li, but otherwise probably not.How awesome is this?And this? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 35: Athens, GA In the fine tradition of Neutral Milk Hotel, Bubba Sparxxx, DJ Danger Mouse, Rumi, Hugh Kenner, Herschel Walker, the B-52s and John Cameron Mitchell, the Poetry Bus made a temporary home for itself in Athens, GA, not far from where I once saw a man dressed in only saran wrap and fried chicken.Despite [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 35: Athens, GA UPDATE!More from Athens!The Athens-Banner Herald!The Red and Black!Flagpole Magazine!****In the fine tradition of Neutral Milk Hotel, Bubba Sparxxx, DJ Danger Mouse, Rumi, Hugh Kenner, Herschel Walker, the B-52s and John Cameron Mitchell, the Poetry Bus made a temporary home for itself in Athens, GA, not far from where I once saw a man dressed in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 32: Richmond, VA It’s beginning to feel less like the bus is traveling to different towns, and more like the bus itself is a town that new people keep visiting. Last night some very lovely people from Richmond came to Poetry Bus Town in a bookstore called Chop Suey. I feel that we received them well, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 31: Washington DC Crammed into a safari themed bar off of embassy row, the poets lifted their voices in song and then ate half price burgers. Stupid with baseball and home comforts from the Zapruder house (thank you!) we all slept like heavily drugged babies. The bus, parked in Mrs. Zapruder’s driveway, did a little dance on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 29: Philadelphia On the way into this fair city, Major Jackson told me never to say “Philly.” “It’s like saying ‘nawlins’ when you’re down South,” he said, “you just sound stupid, like a tourist.” Taking his advice I will tell you about our trip into Philadelphia without once saying the word Philly except, of course, when I’m [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 27: New York City (Dia Chelsea) Let me tell you about a nightmare I’ve had: I’m on a bus. I’m on a bus full of poets and I have to help get this bus full of poets to a fancy shindig in New York City by a certain time, but this bus doesn’t fit right on the streets of New York [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 24: The Five Colleges (okay, three of the five) and Amherst I stayed away from the bus today as it toured the five colleges due to a pressing engagement with the false hope for rest and sanity. Here is a photo Joshua took of the Typing Explosion outside of costume during the five college tour. If anyone else has photos or whatnot, or would like to check in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 23: Northampton Back in the United States of America, the poetry bus had a little homecoming dance at the Basement bar in Northampton, a town where Matthew, Monica and I have all lived. It was wonderful and strange to be amongst so many familiar faces–also incredibly intimidating to read poems to so many amazing poets. A few years ago, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 22: Montreal Montreal in the Green Room with the best audience I have ever experienced without question. Attentive yet jovial. Respectful yet no-poo-taking. Perfect. The reading was put together by the wonderful Kate Hall, an underappreciated poet from Montreal who helps run Delirium Press and who can give a 40 foot bus directions through Montreal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 18: Lewisburg Our running joke about loose ends is that we will “take care of it in Spokane,” which is what we said in Seattle when things seemed less planned out than they should be. Re-pack the napkins, plates, cups and coffee stirrers so they don’t collapse on Anthony’s head every hour? We’ll take care [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 17: Pittsburgh I’m looking at the spears on the wall in a loft in Pittsburgh. Gist Street. This is where the reading happened. The excellent reading. Sherrie, Rick, Nancy, James and John, thank you. Thank you for the loft in which to hear the excellent reading and then to sleep soundly enough [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 16: Ann Arbor Woke up at 8 am in my little sleeping berth on the bus to find Bill and Josh Edwards trying to find a place to park in this consummate college town (i.e. it’s easier to find a wild glen full of ginseng root, truffles, and four leaf clovers than a free space).I hopped [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 15: Milwaukee I love Milwaukee. It feels like a front porch kind of city, one in which you can walk down the street and find at least two friends sitting on their front porch somewhere waiting to talk with you about the books they’ve read, the music they’re listening to, or the food they’ve just cooked [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 15: On the Way to Milwaukee We drove all night from Chicago into Wisconsin so we could stop at Lorine Niedecker’s house in Black Hawk Island, but since we couldn’t park the bus anywhere in Black Hawk Island we stayed nearby at a Jellystone Campground in Fort Atkinson. I’m beginning to think the ten hits of acid Dustin took behind [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 14: The Green Mill Chicago Five months ago I called Marc Smith at the Green Mill and asked if he would be interested in having his Uptown Poetry Slam host us when the bus came through Chicago.We wanted to bring the bus to the Green Mill because one of our primary goals for the whole endeavor has been [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 11: Minneapolis O Minneapolis! City of public art and jaywalkers! To be in Minneapolis is to wake up early in the library of a cooperative house but to not remember you are in the library of a cooperative house because you stayed up at Lyle’s Liquor Lounge until 2am talking with your old friend who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 10: Ames Public Schools Downstairs, parents’ house, poets snoring loudly. Then, off to the bus to roust Bill for the drive into the middle school. Tyler and Blake did a little street corner busking and then we headed in to meet what seemed like the most attentive, entusiastic twelve year olds in the world. These attentive twelve year olds wrote [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 10: Ames Public Schools Downstairs, parents’ house, poets snoring loudly. Then, off to the bus to roust Bill for the drive into the middle school.Tyler and Blake did a little street corner busking and then we headed in to meet what seemed like the most attentive, entusiastic twelve year olds in the world.These attentive twelve year olds wrote [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 10: Ames Public Schools Downstairs, parents’ house, poets snoring loudly. Then, off to the bus to roust Bill for the drive into the middle school.Tyler and Blake did a little street corner busking and then we headed in to meet what seemed like the most attentive, entusiastic twelve year olds in the world.These attentive twelve year olds wrote [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 9: Omaha I haven’t had a cup of coffee in over a year, but I have one here by my side as I sit on an air mattess in Cole Swensen’s living room. Question: Will I drink it? Another question: How many events have we done in the past two days? Answer: Five. On [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 8: Lincoln, NE Poets! Go to Lincoln, Nebraska! They will laugh at your jokes, buy you beer and make you breakfast in the morning! A wonderful time! Five from Lincoln: 1) We parked the bus out behind the old steel works, under an overpass, and for an instant I wondered if I was going to meet an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 7: Denver We read in Denver last night in an old brewery filled with poetry lovers while a camera crew from the Jim Lehrer News Hour filmed us for a segment that will air in the next few weeks. (“A new car!” yells the TV at the truck stop in Nebraska where grubby unwashed me sits writing this) I’d [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 6: Laramie Bill drove all night from Salt Lake City to Saratoga, WY where he had scouted out a hot springs, or “hobo pool.” In Saratoga after a soak in the Hobo Pool, I bought the Sibley Guide to Western Birds at a little bookshop, identified a Northern Flicker on a telephone pole, then wandered down the street [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boise! Anthony McCann has been spectacular this whole trip, and I realize I haven’t been able to post a decent clip of him yet. Here he is surrounded by light, heckling the hecklers and reading a sonnet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frolicking/Long Night Moon Sadly, we now must leave the Missoula Reading behind, but we’ll keep the memories in reserve to keep us through any rough spots we encounter. During the reading, I had as much fun watching the audience as I did the poets, so here’s a bit of some frolicking kids while one of the many wonderful Missoula [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Missoula! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 3: Missoula Was Missoula all we could have hoped? Do cowboy poets shit in the woods? Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes (!?) So we have day three under our belts and we are currently hauling ass to Boise on a precarious mountain road–not the most precarious mountain road (we were able to talk [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day 2: Spokane What have we learned from Day 2? We’ve learned that even if you appear to have time to do so you should not take the scenic route on your way to Spokane from Seattle, for if you take the scenic route on your way to Spokane from Seattle you will get lost on your way to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More from Day 1 at Bumbershoot Since last night’s summary didn’t do justice to all that went on yesterday, here’s a little video that speaks for itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website