Shya Scanlon

In a coup for my arrogance and solipsism, The Nervous Breakdown has run a self-interview about, well, me. And my impulses.

Delivery of In This Alone Impulse is imminent, and I’m putting together a list of people to be sent review copies. If you’d like to receive a review copy, please contact me with your shipping info, and your proposed review outlet. Thank you for your attention.

Yo. I’ve mentioned these in a couple of other posts, but what began as a disorganized, under-conceived activity has grown up and become a plan: I’m recording myself reading all 60 poems of my collection, In This Alone Impulse. Each weekday, and maybe sometimes on the weekend, I will be posting a new video on my YouTube channel. If you subscribe to my channel, you’ll be notified each time a new video posts, but I’ll also be posting links on my Facebook wall. So, hey, you’ve got options. Who doesn’t like options?

Much like the poems themselves, the videos vary in tone and presentation–some are pretty comical, others serious, etc. I don’t really know what I’m going to do before starting up iMovie, so it’s all rather spontaneous. Also much like the poems. Anyway, please take a look at them. And if you have any ideas or requests for something I could do (keep in mind, please, that I’m a nevernude), let me know: I’m taking requests.

At long last, In This Alone Impulse is available for pre-order at Noemi’s web site. Please buy a copy for yourself, and one for your favorite fan of “enigmatic” prose poetry!

Another way you can help this book become more accessible is to request that your local library carry it.  In New York, this can be done quite easily online here. They ask for some info, including the ISBN (9781934819104), but can just fill in as much as you know. Most of it can be found in the SPD online catalogue. I also inserted that link in the space for “Source of Information.”

It’s easy to do, and quick! Please help make small press poetry available to everyone.

I’ve begun blogging for The Feed: the blog of The Nervous Breakdown. Please come by and share your thoughts. That is all.

Come hear me read some words I’ve organized!

WHEN: Sunday, December 20 from 4:40 to 6:40 pm

WHERE: 440 Gallery, 440 6th Ave. at 9th St., F to 7th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
Admission Free

I’ll be reading with two other fine word organizers:

Scott Geiger is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. He is a contributor to magazines such as The Believer, Conjunctions, and Icon. New fiction written as part of a multidisciplinary design studio called “Landscapes of Quarantine” will appear next March as part of an exhibit at The Storefront of Art and Architecture.

Micaela Morrissette is a senior editor at the literary biannual Conjunctions. Her fiction has appeared there, as well as in the 2009 Pushcart Prize Anthology, the 2008 Best American Fantasy anthology, Weird Tales, and elsewhere. Book reviews and other nonfiction can be found in Rain Taxi, Jacket, and LIT. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is a graduate student in Brown’s Literary Arts program.

Well, it’s over. Just in time for Christmas! I’m grateful for all those involved–both participants and readers. I’ll be putting my thoughts and reflections about the experience together, and will hopefully publish a couple “reviews” of my own project here and there, but for now I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Please come this Wednesday and hear me read from In This Alone Impulse!

The New York Quarterly Reading Series at Cornelia Street Cafe

Wednesday, Dec. 9th, 6PM
Shya Scanlon, Douglas Treem, Leslieann Hobayan

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
212.989.9319

$7 cover gets you a free drink

Subway: A,C,E,F,V to W. 4th St. /
1 & 9 to Sheridan Square

The NYQ Poetry Reading Series is curated by Ted Jonathan

The complete cover–front, back and spine–for my forthcoming book of poetry! Gracious blurbs by Brian Evenson, Terese Svoboda, and Joyelle McSweeney. Gracious design by Matty Harper.

In This Alone Impulse Cover

p.s. there’s a newer video of the ITAI poem series. I linked to the older two here.

I’m going to begin blogging at Big Other–a literary blog with a really exciting list of contributors. Please come participate!

Or heck, just lurk.