In 2015, I released a collection of poetry called Perfect Sleeping Weather.
For a couple years, my buddy Joshua McLane (of the terrific band, Heels) suggested I do an audiobook.
Spending eight months of the five-year anniversary sheltering-in-place (oddly/ironically at my mom’s house in my hometown) gave me more than enough downtime to finally give it a shot.
But I didn’t want to simply sit in a room and record a bunch of poems. Seemed like, if I was gonna do it, I should do something special for it.
So I recorded it like an album and put it on Bandcamp.
You can stream the entire thing for free a few times. But, should you decide to buy it (for just $10 for the month of January), you’ll get:
– unlimited streaming.
– digital download of all 93 tracks + two bonus tracks.
– PDF of the book itself.
– PDF of “Between the Sheets,” a 25 page companion piece that tells the story behind every poem in the book, as well as the bonus tracks.
This project provided a much-needed distraction for me for the past few months and I hope listening to or reading it can be the same for you.
Happy New Year. We made it.
Category Archives: literature
Perfect Sleeping Weather, now available on Kindle
Three years ago I put out a collection of 93 poems called Perfect Sleeping Weather.
As of tonight it’s available on Kindle, here, for $3, or free if you have Kindle Unlimited.
If you like words about loneliness, cities, neighbors, dead friends, losing your mind at a job you hate, returning to your hometown for something as strange as the 4th of July, etc. … Merry Christmas.
Art
I’ve been consuming art a long time. At an early age, I was captivated by singers, actors, then stand-up comedians. Continue reading
“Holding out the long note”
I awoke to Paris on fire, at gunpoint, held hostage,
from a mid-afternoon sleepwalking slumber of menial tasks
as a wage war zombie soldier on the other side of the world. Continue reading
“It’s all part of my rock ‘n’ roll fantasy”
tired drives through thunderstorms on slick
and narrow roads.
van spinning out on wet leaves, rolling backwards
down a mountain driveway at 4 AM,
heavy with gear, guilt, dreams, fear,
and lack of sleep. Continue reading
Perfect Sleeping Weather, available now. More on the horizon.
I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting this blog since March. Been fairly busy since then with two part-time jobs, occasional touring, and finally publishing Perfect Sleeping Weather. Continue reading