Finally Microdosing May
my monthly newsletter
Hey. How you doing? Real glad to meet you here. Fill your mug, pass the joint and let’s catch up.
Last month on 4/20 my new chapbook was published as part of Pure Sleeze Press’ spring book drop. Fuel for the Resistance had a limited print run of 50 copies, and all individual copies of it have sold out. There are only FIVE copies remaining, and you can only get them by purchasing the spring bundle deal from the press. You get all six new chapbooks for $35, and you’re supporting a press that bought a portable ramp for their local art scene, so that their stages are more inclusive and accessible. They’re like the anarchist teddy bears of the small press.
Click here to check out that bundle deal.
I finally got out of my camper, and out to a poetry reading for the first time since the Underground Lit Fest last November. After a long, endless winter gauntlet of self immolating mental health, surgeries, chronic pain and the constant dick kick of the American news, it was great to see several long time Toledo and Ohio poet friends, and hear good featured poets, including my friend Jennifer Browne, a poetic powerhouse that came all the way from Maryland to wow us.
Check Jennifer Browne's work out via Goodreads here.
I even got to read a poem on the open mic. I’m a rusty reader, but it felt good. I read “I am Waiting,” a poem from the new chap.
The Roadside Press fundraising anthology that I got to help with and have a piece of writing in, Roadside Assistance, received a thorough and exceptional review from working class hero artist Richard Modiano. Buying a copy of this book supports one of our best, and most vital independent small presses alive today.
I have a new piece of writing that’s scheduled to be published on Thursday this week. It’s something a tiny bit different than any of my other writing, and I’m excited for you all to read it, and I look forward to seeing how well, or not, it flies. I’ll share the link when it comes out.
We got a new episode of Just another way to waste 60 minutes out on YouTube. It’s the podcast I co host with North Carolina writer and musician Ted Jackins. I think it’s a pretty good episode. Lot’s of mental health talk, music, books and a special, hilarious 4/20 segment.
Ted writes on Substack at Ted Jackins
There are a few other literary surprises up my sleeve for this month. I’m trying some new things. We’ll see how it goes.
And finally, my first call time for the movie I’m co-starring in this summer is Friday June 5th. I’ll have a full, nine hour day on set, so I’m going to attempt to drum up the funds to get down to Portsmouth, OH on Thursday the fourth and head back out on Saturday the sixth. Gas prices are high, and gas is always one of the most expensive and unavoidable costs of traveling for artists with broken shoestrings for bank accounts. But I have a couple of ideas.
The writing is slow, but consistent, and the work on my Portsmouth art scene documentary is the same. Doesn’t bother me none. As long as I get to plug away at being an artist every day, I get to do what makes me the happiest.
Thanks for hanging with me through the madness. Without you I’d be writing into the wind.
Love,
Dan
Looking forward to the Thursday drop. I sent something to help ya get to Portsmouth.