News Update #2 (regarding new album)
For those of you who have been with me for awhile, you will remember the Spoken Word album I put out awhile ago. It has been tucked away for awhile, but right now, at this very moment, I have pulled it back out of the fire. The album was called Out of the Loud. It featured poems from my books Translating The Avenues, Mixtape, as well as some previously unpublished poems. It was downloaded by nearly 3,000 people.
Due to my renewed interest in the Spoken Word format, I am bringing Out of the Loud back into the public’s domain. You can download it by visiting the new ALBUMS section of the site. It’s completely free. More or less it was all done as a token of appreciation for all of you and what you have done for my life.
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But none of that is new information to many of you who have already downloaded, and still to this day, enjoy the album.
But this is the news you have been waiting for, that I faintly brought up the other day. There is a new album in the works, that will be released on October 16th, 2012. It’s called Piece of Roads.
Piece of Roads will feature completely brand new works. What makes this album truly special, and quite different from the original one, is that all the tracks on the album are unscripted, unedited, off the cuff recordings….all of which have been recorded on the road or in little brief moments of silence.
Like I said, the album will be released to the world on October 16th, 2012. It will be available in the ALBUMS section, just like Out of the Loud. I’ll release more information, and updates on the recording process as more time passes. But I just wanted to shed some more light on it. It’s good to know the loop.
Oh yeah, and here’s a preview of the cover:
[Have You] Got Yours?
2012 has been a charitable little year so far. If you happened to miss out on the free stuff around here, this is that golden moment where I decide to remind you about it because I like being redundant.
First off, there is the spoken word album I made, Out of The Loud.
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Out of The Loud consists of twenty readings. A majority of which were picked by you, or people like you, and the remainder were choices of mine. The tracklisting for the album goes as follows:
01: Fifty-Two Cars Roll Out
02: When I Told My Brother I Stopped Driving
03: Time Is Wasted On The Young
04: While On Vacation
05: Watching Red Dragon Blues
06: Waking Up In The Kitchenette
07: There’s A Ferris Wheel In My Weekend
08: Stuck In The Toronto Greyhound Station
09: Standing Around A Homicide
10: Sleeping On Winter Place
11: The Saints
12: Nights In Olive Sheets
13: Orange Juice Sandwiches
14: Horse Track Romance
15: Insecurity Knocks, Hesitation Waits
16: Breezing In The Fluff
17: Hangovers
18: Cheer Up, Honey
19: Bones That Feast
20: Under The Pedestal
If Out of The Loud is something you are interested in, click HERE to begin the download process.
Secondly, there is Rumor Mirror, a digital chapbook I released upon the world 
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Rumor Mirror began as a personal experiment. I wanted to write poems without proper titles (I simply used letters of the alphabet) to see how that altered the reader’s interpretation of the content within each poem. Since I already had my hands full working on putting together my next book manuscript, I thought why not give it away to all the people that bother to read my work every live-long-day? So that’s what I did.
If you’re interested in downloading a copy of Rumor Mirror, click HERE to begin the download process.
The Clock Is Ticking
There aren’t many days left to get involved in the Mixtape contest. It’s the 16th now, and it ends on Sunday.
If you want to enter to win a copy of the book, the contest will work just like the Translating The Avenues & Leaving Frost Upon the Walls competitions. All you have to do is go to the Facebook page for the book and “like” it (click here to visit). You can double your entry by visiting my Facebook page and giving it a “like” as well (click here to visit). If you’re already a fan of one or both, you’re already entered.
Just as before, for those who don’t use Facebook, you can submit entry via the web (click here). In the title section of the submit form, please enter “Mixtape Contest” so it is clear what the entry is for (there are a lot of submissions for random things). Please enter both your name, address, and email information.
This competition will run slightly longer than the previous two, ending on Sunday, February 19th at 8:30PM EST. At that time, I will randomly select a name from the compiled lists of fans.
Also, in case you want some free spoken words for your computer/audio player of your choice, I put one together for all y’all since you’ve all shown such outrageous support over the last few months over the material I’ve compiled over the years.
If you missed out on the info, below is the album cover and the track listing:
The set is twenty readings, which go as follows:
01: Fifty-Two Cars Roll Out
02: When I Told My Brother I Stopped Driving
03: Time Is Wasted On The Young
04: While On Vacation
05: Watching Red Dragon Blues
06: Waking Up In The Kitchenette
07: There’s Ferris Wheel In My Weekend
08: Stuck In Toronto Greyhound Station
09: Standing Around A Homicide
10: Sleeping On Winter Place
11: The Saints
12: Nights In Olive Sheets
13: Orange Juice Sandwiches
14: Horse Track Romance
15: Insecurity Knocks, Hesitation Waits
16: Breezing In The Fluff
17: Hangovers
18: Cheer Up, Honey
19: Bones That Feast
20: Under The Pedestal
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