They Speak of Fruit

My new chapbook, They Speak of Fruit, is now officially for sale at the Cooper Dillon Books website! I'm extremely honored and proud to be the first title on Cooper Dillon. They're set-up for great things. Support them by snagging a copy of They Speak of Fruit!

Thank you, readers, for your support and time over the years here at The Tongue is an Eye. I've been neglecting the blog lately... perhaps I should start this bad-boy up again. I've certainly been keeping up with all of you via RSS feeds.

Anyway, if you read They Speak of Fruit, lemme know what you think!

Boo!

F. Daniel Rzicznek

An incredible and insightful review of my good friend's first collection, Neck of the World, here, by Djelloul Marbrook.

Check it out, yo!

NaPoWriMo

So I'm going to attempt NaPoWriMo at least in part. April, aside from December, is the busiest month of the year for me, but this will be a good exercise in many ways, even if I only get 10-15 poems in the next 30 days, that's 10-15 more poems than I'd normally write in April. And it'll propel me to really finish this project I'm working on by the end of the summer months.

Check me out over at from Viewings.

And be sure to check out and support all the other crazy, dedicated poets participating in this annual tradition of National Poetry Month, too.

Good luck, everyone!

I predict a penultimate (second-to-last?) finish...

Young Teeth (my 2009 Fantasy Baseball team)

C -- Mike Napoli (LAA)
1B -- Ryan Howard (PHI)
2B -- Jose Lopez (SEA)
SS -- Michael Young (TEX)
3B -- Aramis Ramirez (CHC)
OF -- Manny Ramirez (LAD)
OF -- Ryan Ludwick (STL)
OF -- Adam Dunn (WAS)
UTIL -- Milton Bradley (CHC)
UTIL -- Jim Thome (CWS)
BN -- Mark Reynolds (ARI)
BN -- Jose Guillen (KC)
BN -- Jack Cust (OAK)
BN -- Ty Wigginton (BAL)

SP -- Carlos Zambrano (CHC)
SP -- Ryan Dempster (CHC)
SP -- Ben Sheets (MIL)
RP -- Kerry Wood (CLE)
RP -- Billy Wagner (NYM)
P -- Derek Lowe (LAD)
P -- Erik Bedard (SEA)
P -- Jered Weaver (LAA)
BN -- Kevin Gregg (CHC)
BN -- John Smoltz (BOS)

Good news...

Some good news came across the wire today: a poem from my first manuscript (poem title: "A Miscarriage Scare at Bronson Methodist") is forthcoming in an issue of Boxcar Poetry Review.

Also, BOOM.

More on that later.

Oh Jean

I love this song ("Oh Jean"). I love this band (The Proclaimers). I'm not ashamed. This isn't the best recording/video of the song, but it's all I could find. Below are the lyrics (without repetition, etc). Hope everyone's well out there.


Oh Jean

I'd never been lucky with girls I confess
Don't know who to blame for my lack of success
Cause even with ones up the back of a bus
There was always the risk of a slap in the puss

But Jean, Oh Jean You let me got lucky with you

The first time I met you it did cross my mind
The next time I saw you there wasn't the time
The third time I saw you I thought that I could
The fourth time I met you I knew that I would

But Jean, you get let me get lucky with you

I love her

I want you forever I want you for good
So I'm gonna treat you the way that I should
For your soul and body my heart'ss gonna pound
Even after the day that I'm laid in the ground

Cause Jean, Oh Jean you let me get lucky with you

Love her I love her.