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Austin, TX
Joined January 2011
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A trailer for my new poem, "Not Enough Vision." It uses eye-tracking software to react to your gaze. It's about Aaron Swartz, surveillance, and more. 👁️
I’m honored to be 1 of 6 Austin poets selected for Layers of Place: Austin, a project from @MIT @opendoclab's Augmented Reality and Public Space Artist Collective.
Links to the poems below 👇
seems like we're all having fun today but i gotta jet. im making deviled eggs for the potluck tonight.
many years ago I kind of felt this way, but eventually I realized this feeling was the product of internal frustration and personal dissatisfaction that I had to neutralize. it's also known as "sour grapes"
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A WEEK FROM TODAY
AUSTIN TEXAS
WITH NICK MACE @MaceSystemsCorp
AUTHOR OF
SALOMON'S GARDEN - RELEASING TUESDAY
AND SPECIAL GUESTS
NOAM HESSLER @poetryaccnt1518
AUGUST SMITH @augustjsmith
A TALE OF MYTH, INTRIGUE, AND WOE
THAT COULD ONLY HAPPEN
IN TEXAS
JOIN US & RSVP ⬇️
playing a show tonight at the Friendly Rio Market! filling in for a band that dropped. I have to leave immediately afterwards to catch the nathan fielder film.
so far this morning I shattered my ceramic neti pot, dropped garlic sauce all over the floor, got a nasty scratch from my cat, and then ordered a $40 t shirt to feel better
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OUR RELEASE PARTY IS ON OCTOBER 24TH
AT ALIENATED MAJESTY BOOKS
WITH @augustjsmith @poetryaccnt1518
SEE YOU SOON
partiful.com/e/eiTrvR8M8STnC…
Visitors from the Red Star talks about this.
(with some lines stolen from Coleridge and Scott Walker)
I'm running a free, open-to-the-public poetry workshop in Austin next week!
🕵️♂️ sign up: events.humanitix.com/researc…
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He's talking about our next novel SALOMON'S GARDEN by Nick Mace (@MaceSystemsCorp), to be clear.
Preorder via the FH website now and pack your bag for our release party in Austin on October 24th.
if you buy an old bus can you just drive it around like a car? or maybe a better question is, at what size/length does a bus start to require special licensure?
a serviceable list of poetry prompts
Today I learned about the All Souls examination, which is reputed to be the hardest exam in the world.
To even be considered, you need to have a degree from, or be a current graduate student of Oxford.
Hundreds of people sit and only two people pass every year.
Attached is last year's general exam.
Before I saw it, I wondered, how hard could it be.
Well, it turns out…it's "Defend ghosting.", "Does a pope matter?", and "Is body language a language?" hard:
we did a deep dive of this on our podcast. youtube.com/watch?v=qfNPcqKw…
not to be such an american but I devote like 5% of my psyhic energy to resisting the siren call of P Terry's Burgers every single waking day
