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New Art Series Begun: Demons of the Dark

I've begun a new series of original digital art called "Demons of the Dark" on my flickr gallery. Demons of the Dark will be an imaginary bestiary from the shadows of hell.  It kind of scares me. (Even scarier: in the spirit of the original gorelets poetry series, I'm creating these by 'fingerpainting' on my iPhone (using the great ArtStudio app)! Returning visitors to gorelets.com may recall that the site once hosted a gallery of its own (and information about all my books in a bibliography). These elements of the site are being rebuilt from scratch, and are not ready…
June 14, 2012Posted inArnzen News
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On the Irrelevance of Genre Poetry [Live]

At the fun "Raw Dog Screaming Press Book Party" at the Morgantown Poets group in West Virginia last month, I opened my reading by sharing a piece I'd written for Locus Magazine, a poem about why I write poetry, which I contributed to their running Roundtable series on speculative poetry.  Here's my recitation of "On the Irrelevance of Genre Poetry," recorded during the reading. I don't often write things like this -- an opinion essay told in the form of a poem -- but the audience really seemed to laugh and also get charged up by the poem. Press the…
June 7, 2012Posted inWeblog Exclusive1 Comment
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Preview of New Broadside: “Anonymous”

Earlier this year, the first people who kindly pre-ordered the hardcover edition of The Gorelets Omnibus after it was initially announced by the publisher were promised a free exclusive broadside as a bonus. If that's you, let me assure you the delay was entirely my fault -- the poem that I wrote for this cause just wasn't quite right, and I try to treat these things special. But now I've got something done that I'm proud of and it is heading out in the mail to you. Enjoy! Here's a purposely-blurry preview, so you can see what's to come. The…
June 6, 2012Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
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Crosswords of Death

666 Across: 4-letter word for nerd. I'm just kidding... I'm only an occasional puzzler, but I fully approve of The Grid Reaper. Spotted it at Barnes and Noble the other day and felt it was required to take a snap shot, because I am compelled to catch publishers trying to cash in on goth and horror conventions that have absolutely nothing to do with the content of their books (such as Zombie Sudoku). But this one is actually legit. Its author, NY Times puzzle consructor David Kahn, thematizes the puzzles he writes for the NY Times and elsewhere in the…
June 1, 2012Posted inAmbulations1 Comment
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100% Arnzen by Nathan Rosen

Some readers of this blog may know Nathan Rosen as the editor of the website dedicated to microscopically short-short horror stories, Microhorror. Nathan was enrolled in a design program this year, and chose Michael Arnzen as the "product" he had to focus his final term project around. What he came up with is a fabulous array of funky items and I am happy to share a sampler with you here. He called his project "100% Arnzen" and put all the print designs into a cellophane-wrapped meat tray with this funny "meat package" sticker on it:   Here's a gallery of…
May 31, 2012Posted inArnzen News1 Comment