4in7, An Unction from The Holy One

Beyond thrilled for my poems "Tinder is a Hatchet Job," "After Music," etc., to be included in Russell Helm's 4ink7, An Unction from The Holy One--a stunning hardcover made with tremendous care, in such bewildering company!

*Here's a link to the book. 

Silver Lake 10.1.2015

Horse Less Press/ Pledge Drive chap

Grateful to horse less press forever!! Their wild work echoes through our community and makes more. It's an honor to be included in the Pledge Drive chap alongside horse less kin who tell the truth (find it) slanted and enchanted: Stephanie Anderson, Dan Brady, Jenny Drai, Richard Froude, Lauren Gordon, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Erica Howsare, Siel Ju, Mark Lamoureux, Tony Mancus, Daniela Olszewska, Susan Scarlet, and Annie Won.

Linda Russo's "Of the relational local: A resurgence of ecopoetics post-conference 'plenary'" in Jacket2

"Drawing attention to the relational local (with bodies, culture, community, landscape, and ecosystem as site), not content with describing the shapes and ways and effects of settler-dominant knowledges and environments, attending affectively, through inquiry, to what may be otherwise overlooked, developing new forms of attention – in these ways, contemporary poets intervene."

Thankful to be included in Linda Russo's "Of the relational local: A resurgence of ecopoetics post-conference 'plenary'" conversation at Jacket2 alongside Matthew Cooperman, Adam Dickinson, Megan Kaminski, Brenda Sieczkowski, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Sarah de Leeuw, Michelle Detorie, Heidi Lynn Staples, and Rita Wong.

Junkshop poetics

Textual Environments: Site and Permeability panel at ASLE


the poem is a site where wildness collapses distinctions between inside and outside/ self and other(s)

Had an amazing and inspiring time at the ASLE conference in Moscow, ID last week! Here are some picks of the Textual Environments: Site and Permeability panel that Michelle Detoire, Brenda Sieczkowski, Megan Kaminski, and I were on together.

Michelle Detorie presents "Feral Poetics: New Histories, Different Futures"

My presentation "INDIAN SUMMER RECYLING: Writing is Fieldwork"

Megan Kaminski presents "Province and Permeability" 

Brenda Sieczkowski presents "Dysplacements: Exploring Spatial Injustice in Concrete Undergrounds"

Banango Street #10 !!

Mightily glad to have "Bunny Scout triptych" and "Trying to" included in the stellar new Banango Street (#10)!! Thanks again to Rachel, Justin, Katie Jean, Justin, and Zach for having me! 

Happy to see more of these NC poems out in the world before we go. 

"See you around, Max"

HICK POETICS

Man alive, I am so grateful to be included in the HICK POETICS anthology (Lost Roads Press, 2015) alongside so many others whose work I admire. Thanks again to Abraham Smith and Shelly Taylor for having me!

See y’all at Patrick’s Cabaret in Minneapolis next week!

http://heyevent.com/event/1400226623626324/hick-poetics-awp-reading-release-party

Stunned by the arrival of Every Living One amidst snow melt this afternoon! ! ! I am incredibly grateful to Jen Tynes and horse less press for giving it a home, David Ruhlman for the use of his gorgeous handmade book, "Felt" (2004), for the cover, and Alban Fischer's innovate design work. 

Paul Naylor has said, "In Every Living One, Nathan Hauke, like Ronald Johnson, works the compost heap left by the New England Transcendentalists—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau all leave traces throughout this careful, delicate, yet tough-minded book. Hauke’s world is—as it should be—a more broken, more littered world than his predecessors, a world composed of as much consumer debris as natural beauty. And it’s to our benefit that Hauke has the tenacity and integrity not to turn his back on either, allowing him to take us to the numinous edge of perception: ‘There is must be a higher origin of.’ Every Living One explores the isn’t as much as the is of that possible higher origin, all while facing directly the sorrows of death and poverty haunting everyday life; yet beneath that layer of sorrow we find at the book’s core a ‘Raw knot of gratitude.’ That gratitude comes through on each page of this compelling book.” 

Order your copy at horse less: http://horselesspress.org/…/pre-order-nathan-haukes-every-…/ Or, let me know if you're interested in writing a review and I'll send one along myself.

Here's a peak inside ::

Thrilled to be able to reveal the cover my new book, EVERY LIVING ONE (Horse Less Press, 2015). Thanks again to Jen Tynes and Horse Less Press for giving it a home! Thanks to David Ruhlman for the use of his gorgeous handmade book, "Felt" (2004), for the cover, and thanks to Alban Fischer for his visionary design work. 

You can preorder EVERY LIVING ONE at Horse Less Press alongside Nikki Wallschlaeger's HOUSES, Sara Peck and Jared Joseph's here you are, and Anne Cecelia Holmes' The Jitters. 

Early praise::

“To show and to affirm the image of the world is a rash act anymore, as nowadays we read and write for colorless grammarians. Nathan Hauke, thank heaven, is a rash man, a poet who loves the precipice he finds in every image and in his mind’s eye. He is the glad captive of a good world and of its graces. Every Living One tells the bright, bright story of that captivity.”

—Donald Revell

“This book of poetry is an active remembering. ‘But who / can say the order of things,’ asks the poet, along with Michel Foucault. See the clear and precarious moments of sun and snow, the world of industry and nature, the poignancy of human nature. ‘Addicted to language,’ Hauke’s cutting edge tracks thought’s shining immediacy.”

—Norma Cole

“In Every Living One, Nathan Hauke, like Ronald Johnson, works the compost heap left by the New England Transcendentalists—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau all leave traces throughout this careful, delicate, yet tough-minded book. Hauke’s world is—as it should be—a more broken, more littered world than his predecessors, a world composed of as much consumer debris as natural beauty. And it’s to our benefit that Hauke has the tenacity and integrity not to turn his back on either, allowing him to take us to the numinous edge of perception: ‘There is must be a higher origin of.’ Every Living One explores the isn’t as much as the is of that possible higher origin, all while facing directly the sorrows of death and poverty haunting everyday life; yet beneath that layer of sorrow we find at the book’s core a ‘Raw knot of gratitude.’ That gratitude comes through on each page of this compelling book.”

—Paul Naylor

“What if the secret heart of rural America were a still waiting, an all-but-silent psalm? These lyrics are delicate, involuted fossils of a trance-like attention that somehow does not exclude chronic underemployment, neighbors up on assault charges, and other vicissitudes of contemporary rural living. In the tradition of C.D. Wright, besmilr brigham, and perhaps Lorine Niedecker above all, these are poems ‘learning the mirror and field guide,’ becoming ‘a process of mapping’—not just of place, but also of being-in-place, an angled consciousness that pares itself away even as the lines all but dissolve on the reader’s sympathetic eye-tongue.”

—G.C. Waldrep

New poems in Denver Quarterly 

The current issue of Denver Quarterly (Vol. 49 No. 2) is AMAZING and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. Thanks to my folks for letting me write on their deck. Thanks to the neighbors for neglecting their trampoline for so long that it feels like home. Thanks to Frankie, the beast in question.

Forest Gospel 

I feel incredibly honored that Nick Potter included IN THE MARBLE OF YOUR ANIMAL EYES (Publication Studio) on his list of favorite books for 2014 at Forest Gospel. Thanks kindly, Nick! 

We're longtime fans of Nick's work in our nest. Check out his awesome Tumblr: Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine, if you haven't seen it: http://nickfrancispotter.tumblr.com