I like this one.
Am I failing better? Who knows?
I am indeed failing again though. Failbetter dun’t want my poems.
They’re such good ones! For real. I’ve been sending out this batch for almost a year. I think they’re the best ones. I feel the same about a story that’s been in rotation since June. This is interesting. The things I like best, no one else likes. I’m not really frustrated. I’m a little surprised, but really I’m just curious.
Hrm.
Know who’s the best? Ellen Parker at Frigg.
I'm over the check-in. I'm all about the e-ticket.
The Emerson Review sent me a note saying the submission I made a month ago would be read in the next few weeks. To which I say what I always say to those notes: spend your time reading submissions, not telling me you’re gonna read my submission. I’m kinda grown-up. I’ve waited over a year for a response. This is nothin.
Today, Wednesday, November 11th at 4:30 PM, a bunch of people from Chicago who write are going to rehash the things we talk about all the time, but this time in front of people.
Join F newsmagazine and the School of the Art Institute’s MFA Writing Dept for round table discussion about Chicago’s burgeoning new literary community, featuring novelist Kyle Beachy, playwright Chris Bower, blogger Jac Jemc, Associate editor of the Journal of Ordinary Thought and Assistant Director of the Neighborhood Writing Alliance Mairead Case, Quickies!founder Lindsay Hunter and Featherproof Books founder Zach Dodson, and moderated by MFAW Department head Sara Levine. The School of the Art Institute Chicago, The Sullivan Gallery, 33 S.State, 7th Floor, November 11 from 4:30-6pm FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
"Four legs good, two legs bad." This line is engrained in a sheep's voice in my head from a high school production of Animal Farm in which I was...bump bada buuuuuummmm: a sheep.
Tin House, surpriiiiiiiiiiise, dun’t want my story. This is the story that I love a lot and no one wants.
Don’t get me wrong, I love all my babies equally, but this baby I love a little more equally.
Tonight I’m reading alone at The Parlor. I hope I will not be alone. I hope you will come. Here’s the deets:
Jac Jemc will be at The Parlor Tuesday November 3rd at 7pm!
Following her 30 minute reading, Jac will take questions from the audience.
As always, the event will be recorded and published on-line for your repeated listening pleasure on iTunes and at www.theparlorreads.com
All readings take place at 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
For more information, please visit www.theparlorreads.com or contact theparlorreads@gmail.com
Tomorrow I’m reading with a slew of other awesome people at the Rec Room’s Sad Trombone/ Erin Teegarden’s 32nd Birthday Reading:
Allison Gruber
Barbara Perry
Dan Godston
Eric Elshtain
Katie Hartsock
Ellen Wadey
Sunny Byers
Jac Jemc
Jacob Knabb
Mary Hamilton
Krista Franklin
Mary Scherer
Louie Holwerk
What is the sound of someone turning 32? Is it a sad trombone, like this (www.sadtrombone.com)? We think so. Therefore, in honor of the actual 32nd birthday of rec room founder and organizer Erin Teegarden, on November 4, 2009, we bring you a night of readings and performance that celebrate the various wah wah wah waaaahhhhhh moments of our lives.
Sad Trombone
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
8:00pm – 11:00pm
black rock bar
3614 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
Come one, come all! Yes!
Even after Lars and the Real Girl, these dolls fa-reak me out.
Heyoooooo!
Sunday, October 25th. 7:30 PM. The Burlington. 3425 W Fullerton.
Ima gonna read a true sexy story. It’s really not that sexy – but the main act is sex, or an attempt at the like.
As I understand, the other readers will be: Jacob S. Knabb, Natalie Edwards, Ryan Sarros, and Molly Each.
Get it while it’s hot.
Aufgabe, you shouldn't have.
Nothing to take the wind out of the sails of Rejection 200, like getting Rejection 201 at the same time. I think it’s darn well apropos.
The first rejection was a form rejection from The Kenyon Review.
The second was an email form rejection from Aufgabe, for a paper submission. I am wondering where my SASE is. Granted I’d withdrawn four of the five poems via email, but still.
Maybe they plan on sending me a secret surprise in my SASE. Maybe they saw that the rejection was going to be a birthday of sorts, and decided to send me a card instead. I bet that is it.
I’m very excited about the new site The Big Other launching today.
It’s an online forum discussing art, literature, music, and whatever.
The people contributing are numerous and wonderful: Leni Zumas, John Dermot Woods, Sean Lovelace, Michael Leong, Jac Jemc, Christopher Higgs, Greg Gerke, Molly Gaudry, Luca Dipierro, Kim Chinquee, and Ryan W. Bradley.
My first post is about text that shows up in non-paper based art.
Check it out! Often!
