Rope-a-Dope!

Rope-a-Dope Collective did a lovely yellowy wistful silkscreen print in honor of our August So & So Reading in Boston! And by our I mean Hazel McClure, Aaron Tieger, and me. Listen close to it. There is an ocean breathing in it.

New Comix Up at The Foghorn

Check out this magazine called The Foghorn.

They just took my That's So Ancient Greece Series!

My Bloody Valentine Last Night at Roseland Ballroom

It was the best thing I've ever seen.

New Poems In Past Simple (Includes Progenitor)

Hello Friends! Please enjoy the new issue of Past Simple. Inside are two poems Brandon Shimoda and I wrote, read by my mother, Toni Browning!

Mini-Comic

This is a cute little number. Upsetting comix you may have seen before collected in a small book made from paper bags and boiled sinew. About 20 pages. Yours for $3 (includes shipping). Let me know if you want one! It seems silly to Paypal it, but there's the option below. Otherwise, just email me your address and I'll mail you one in your mailbox!

sommerbrowning [at] hotmail [dot] com

So and So Reading Up In Your Boston.

Do you live in Boston?

Do you find wide waters of viscera worth crossing?

Have you mastered the coma of disintegration and musk, but still yearn?



I am reading poetry this Saturday!!

Saturday, August 23, 8pm

at The Distillery
516 East Second Street
South Boston, MA 02127


I read with Hazel McClure and Aaron Tieger.

Please come!


Hazel McClure wrote Nothing Moving, a chapbook from Lame House press. Her work has been published in Mirage #4/ Period(ical), the tiny, Coconut and Can We Have Our Ball Back. She lives and writes in Buffalo.


Aaron Tieger's most recent books are Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press) and The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger (Editions Louis Wain). Formerly the editor of CARVE Poems, he now publishes Petrichord Books in Cambridge, MA.

Pleasure Your Ear Holes

This Sunday expect one of three things:

1.

2.

3. A poetry reading with Mathias Svalina, Julia Cohen, Julie Doxsee and me!

From 2-4pm at Chop Suey Books in Richmond, Virginia.

Bicychlamydia Screams this Weekend!!

You Get On -- It Gets Off!


This short film I helped write is playing Saturday!
(And I won't be there.)

It won first prize at the Bike Shorts screening a few weeks ago.

Come if you dare!!!


What for: The Brooklyn Waterfront Screening Series

When: 3pm - Saturday, July 26th

Where: The BWAC screening room 499 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook Brooklyn


It's the opening day of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition's Summer Show. Free movies! Free popcorn! Beer, wine and food by donation!


The screening will also include Jack-of-all-trades by Lisa Kletjian (editor of Bicychlamydia and front woman of Riff Raff).


Most of the filmmakers will be on hand to discuss their work (Andrew!), and there will be hundreds of artists and pieces of art to see in the rest of the show.



BICYCHLAMYDIA is A Back and to the Left Production


Starring: Alison Walsh, Missi Bullock, Christopher Boosahda, Mike Daronco, Elle Kay, Wade Bowen & Kira Rutherford-Boese

Special Effects Makeup: Yukki Nakamura, Niamh Moloney & Jane Rose

Title design: Ron Miller

Director of Photography: Francis Buxton

Edited by: Lisa Kletjian

Written by: Sommer Browning and Andrew Miller

Produced by: Jon Bentley Wiggins

Directed by: Andrew Miller

Now Out With Flying Freaking Guillotine

X-Ray by Michael Rerick.

Order Here or Email Me

New Study Reveals 2 in 5 People Love Dancing Cat Videos or Love Someone Who Loves Dancing Cat Videos

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- A new study reveals two in five people love dancing cat videos or love someone who loves dancing cat videos. A group of research sociologists at The University of Bowling Green State Ohio College University (go RedCups!) have just completed the two-and-a-half-day long survey of most every human on the planet. "We missed a few people in Bangladesh and St. Augustine, Florida because our dial-up connection was screwballs, but we answered for them as accurately as possible," says Dr. Robert Bob. Survey takers were asked questions such as: Do you love dancing cat videos? Do you know someone that loves dancing cat videos? Am I doing it too hard? The results will be published in an article coming out this July in the Yale Journal of Sociology.

I See Steely Dan in Nineteen Days

I Haven't Posted in Twelve Years Yet I Decide to Share Some Very Personal Things, or, Julia Cohen Tagged Me

What were you doing five years ago?

1.) Slinging tater tots at Grill
2.) Hanging clothes out on the line in the backyard of the cutest house I will ever live in
3.) Writing this poem
4.) Sweating
5.)


What are five things (in no particular order) on your to-do list for today?

1.) Get Tito Ortiz to sign my book
2.) Call Ron Miller
3.) Eat dinner (hopefully hamburgers) with mk
4.) Try not to cut my own hair
5.)

What are five snacks you enjoy?

1.) Pork
2.) Beef Jerky
3.) Hamburgers
4.) Bacon
5.)


What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?

1.) Give money to mk to invent a gun that shoots money
2.) Give money to Cheryl to start some crazy ass school that teaches critical thinking
3.) Buy my mother everything she wants
4.) Learn to surf standing up
5.) Renounce my wealth


What are five of your bad habits?

1.) Thinking I'm still playing GTA4 when I walk down the street
2.) Watching shit ass TV instead of writing shit ass poems about TV
3.) Worrying I'm not worrying enough
4.) Thinking I only have four bad habits
5.)

What are five places you have lived?

1.) In a shack in Church Hill, Richmond, VA
2.) In a shack in Brooklyn
3.) In a shack in Fredericksburg, VA
4.) In a shack in Tucson, AZ
5.) In a shack in Alexandria, VA

What are five jobs you have had?

1.) Waitress at Denny's, graveyard shift
2.) Under quota bookseller at Waldenbooks
3.) Uncomfortable cashier at community pool


4.) Incompetent Richmond dishwasher
5.) Cataloger

Which five people do you want to tag?

1.) Ron Silliman
2.) Mark Horosky
3.) Marjorie Wine
4.) Jennifer Bartlett
5.) Ann Fine

Flying Guillotine's First Endeavor!

A collection of Melissa Koosmann's wonderful poems is out with Flying Guillotine!

Check it all out here.

Here's What Human Beings Are Saying About Vale Tudo!

"The book is terrific (I love reading about sex in hotel rooms)..." -- Larry Hama

[To Self] "Self, I'm tickled by these poems in a depth-charged, urgent, almost dire sort of way." -- Matt Hart

"Is that a tooth?" -- Toni Browning

Pick up a copy at horse less press.