Andrew Weatherhead
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Monday, January 31, 2011
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AvB gets some mail



I had to walk for a while in the snow last night because the trains stopped running. I got home at ~2:30 am and had to be awake not that many hours later. This package was there when I got home. I did not know it was coming. I stayed up for a while reading Matthew Rohrer's poems, then went to sleep reading Matthew Rohrer's poems and had a dream in which I was reading Matthew Rohrer's poems. When I woke up I read Matthew Rohrer's poems.

This is what the world looked like:










Thursday, January 27, 2011
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A few weeks of 2011

I am reading on January 25th at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Cornelia St.

Here is the facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171117042931424

Here is the email they sent me:

Dear Andrew Weatherhead,

I'm writing because I'm the co-curator of the Cornelia St Reading Series at Cornelia St Cafe and word-of-mouth has it that you are a very good reader and poet. I'd like to invite you to read on Tuesday, January 25th, at 6 pm, alongside Eric Weinstein from NYU and two other poets.

There's one catch: are you a recent graduate or currently enrolled in an MFA program? I'm technically only supposed to invite people to read if that is the case.

Anyway, I'm really hoping you can read for us. I personally won't be able to attend your reading, but my co-curator Jimin Seo and friend Abba Belgrave, who would be introducing you, would be really happy to have you. If you can come, I'd really like to have a couple things from you--a brief bio, and a sampling of some recent work (by file attachment or internet link, however you prefer). How does that sound?

Please let me know if this can happen!

Sincerely

Jennifer



I am also reading at this:



***UPDATE*** "Matthew L. Rohrer" is not the same as "Matthew Rohrer" -- there are two different Matthew Rohrers, "Matthew L. Roher" does not teach at NYU

I want to provide different reading experiences for both.

I think I never want to read the same poem (or thing) twice in front of people.

That's like a career goal I have.

Can I do it?

I want to do it.

I don't know what I'm going to read though.

Feel like all my poems suck dick.

I feel like I'm going to begrudgingly spend the next week - two weeks working really hard on poems to read.

But I feel especially bad at poems right now.

Like I wrote a poem the other day that felt really, really good at the time but then I looked at it today and it sucked dick.

Seems like a bad time to be bad at poems.

I've been reading things that aren't poems and maybe that's why I'm so bad at them (poems) right now.

I'm reading "Pee on Water" by Rachel B. Glaser and it's so good. I've laughed out loud several times while reading it. Laughed pretty hard too.

Is there like a poetry boot camp I can go through?

Or can someone just say 5-250 words to me that will make me write good poems?

I think I just need to write down my ideas as they come to me and then edit them until they don't suck dick anymore.

Is that a good idea?

I've been listening to these Jack Spicer lectures and he says "spooks" and/or "martians" invade his body and write his poems for him.

I need those things.

Where do I get them?

Monday, January 17, 2011
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AJW is the author of numerous poems and short stories, both online and in print. He makes collages here. He is from Wilmette, Illinois. He is an Eagle Scout.

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