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Finding the Hot Teen Celebrity Hairstyles

If you have even a passing interest in the topic of Celebrity Hairstyles, then you should take a look at the following information. This enlightening article presents some of the latest news on the subject of Celebrity Hairstyles.



It seems like new information is discovered about something every day. And the topic of Celebrity Hairstyles is no exception. Keep reading to get more fresh news about Celebrity Hairstyles.

There are so many teen stars, or actors who play teens at least, that the number of hairstyles is in great abundance. No matter if you have red hair, an oval shaped face, or any other feature, there are plenty of teen hairstyles to copy from this source. Networks like Fox and the WB which thrive on teens to watch their shows produce hot hairstyle frequently in shows like The OC, One Tree Hill, and the old favorite Dawson's Creek. Nickelodeon and Disney always produce a number of new teen celebrities each year all providing different hairstyles. Movies like the recent 'Date Movie' or 'Final Destination 3' all have teen playing actors with different hairstyle copying possibilities. These teen celebrities also sport some of the best hairstyles in their appearances at award shows and for some of the best formal teen hairstyles, there is no better choice. Some key names with great hairstyles to watch for include Hilary DUff, Lindsay Lohan, and Rachel Jade Bilson, just to name a few.

The other hot source for teen hairstyles is in the music industry. Probably one of the hotter areas that is really diverse when it comes to different hairstyles. Because music has different genres each catering to a different crowd usually with different styles, the music industry caters to many different teen hairstyles. From everything from chic to punk, hot hairstyles in any form can usually be found on some musician. Rap artist Eminem probably drove a number of teens to get his crew cut hairstyle. Current favorites like Christina Aguilera, Evanescence, Greenday, and Hoobastank all provide different hairstyles for teens.

The hottest teen hairstyle from an actress probably is Hilary Duff. From everything from TV shows to movies to music, she has done it all and with great hairstyles as well. For teens with similar hair, Hilary Duff is a goldmine of different teen hairstyles from short to long lengths and from everyday wear to formal. Great layered hairstyles, formal hairstyles, and any other hairstyle can be found just from searching Google.com images for her name. She definitely is one of the hottest hair molds for teen hairstyles.

The girls and guys of The OC are another great teen hairstyle zone for both guys and girls. Actresses Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson, and Kelly Rowan all provide different types of hairstyles for teens. For the guys, the great hairstyles from teen hottie Adam Brody should be enough. From watching the shows or watching the celebrities at award shows should provide an abundance of hot teen hairstyles.

For guys, The WB is a great source for teen hairstyles; provide some very fashionable hairstyles that range from wavy to crew cut. Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles of SUpernatural both provide different styles suitable for different guys. Chad Michael Murray and James Lafferty of One Tree Hill provide two more different styles. Each of these guys produces several different hairstyles in their shows and at other events as well. We didn't even need to mention the good old boy style of Tom Welling.

Finding a teen celebrity hairstyle is not hard at all with all the sources mentioned above. Most hot teen hairstyles can be found on some teen driven TV show or movie, popular bands and music artist, or the next hot model.


If you've picked some pointers about Celebrity Hairstyles that you can put into action, then by all means, do so. You won't really be able to gain any benefits from your new knowledge if you don't use it.

Creating a Trendy Hairstyle

In today's world, it seems that almost any topic is open for debate. While I was gathering facts for this article, I was quite surprised to find some of the issues I thought were settled are actually still being openly discussed.



It seems like new information is discovered about something every day. And the topic of Trendy Hairstyle is no exception. Keep reading to get more fresh news about Trendy Hairstyle.

Are you keen on today's trendy hairstyles? Do you like all these trendy hairstyles you see every day outside? I cannot even name them! If you like these trendy hairstyles, I may recommend you a psychoanalyst. So, what is your hairstyle right now? Have you made yourself a trendy hairstyle? In fact, what is exactly a trendy hairstyle? I think that there is no trend currently. At least, I cannot define it. I guess that everything you can think of is trendy. Oh, now I realized why the guy that I saw yesterday was with a "Flock of Seagulls" hairdo. Maybe he thought he had a trendy hairdo?!

To tell you the truth I believe that if a hairstyle has to become a trendy hairstyle it is just a question of styling products. The trick is to know how to choose the right styling product. So many different styling products are available that you may find yourself lost in the world of styling products. You may buy anything from molding paste, to hair mud. You can even make a trendy hairstyle by yourself. You just need to put any smelly stuff you find around you on your hair and you are ready. You just created the perfect trendy hairstyle.

I keep my trendy hairstyle for seven years now. May be you will say, "Seven years? Oh, it is not already a trendy hairstyle! This is your grandma's hairstyle!". Okay, I know, I won't get offended! I know my hairstyle will not be a trendy hairstyle forever. But I do not want to change it. I love my trendy hairstyle. I still think that it is a trendy hairstyle.

I will set your minds at rest with another story of a trendy hairstyle. I used to know a woman who loved her 80's bug hairstyle with large quantities of hair spray. Why did she love her hairstyle? We won't probably understand her. But I believe you met such strange people on the streets every day. Hairstyles from 70s and 80s are getting more and more fashionable.

May be nothing can be done to change these people who love their retro hairdos. I may just say a few words about these people who will never change their high school hairstyles. Come on, people grow up! You are already adults. Just try to find any trendy hairstyle, which can successfully replace your timeless teen hairdo. Remember that this was your trendy hairstyle two or four decades ago. I guess you don't want to become an outcast person. No matter how much you like your teen cut, try to think of trendier hairstyle. You live in a society that will judge you by your appearance. Look for a suitable trendy hairstyle. Go out and you will find it.

Have you ever tried to find a trendy hairstyle on the World-Wide-Web? There are plenty of trendy hairstyles into the internet. It is easy to find a trendy hairstyle, just type in the keywords "trendy hairstyle" into a search engine like Yahoo! or Google. In less than a minute, you will get many results. You will find it hard to choose one.

To choose the appropriate hairstyle you should first think of your face shape. Believe me you new trendy hairstyle will change your appearance completely. Make sure you have chosen a trendy hairstyle that best corresponds to your face. What are you waiting for? Search for your trendy hairstyle today. Now it is the right time to better your appearance. Go down the street. The nearby salon is waiting for you!


Is there really any information about Trendy Hairstyle that is nonessential? We all see things from different angles, so something relatively insignificant to one may be crucial to another.

It will end on the day of thieves :: Submission deadline

It will end on the day of thieves, merchants and orators. A suitable sentiment for either end-time prophecies or submission deadlines. At Artichoke Haircut we do occasionally collude, conspire, share tea and fondle what some call fringe groups or crazies or cults, but we'll leave those discussions for another time. For now we'll just assume this sentiment means it's getting to be the "end-times" (wink) for submissions. It's the last week to submit in time for our Spring 2012 issue. The deadline is December 15th. This Thursday. Get 'em in.

Read guidelines here: Submit
Send things here: submit [at] artichokehaircut [dot] com

P.S. If you didn't click on the link above, please, do yourself a favor and click on this: William Tapley. This guy is so devastatingly, beautifully mad that he gives me a headache while simultaneously making parts tingle I'm ashamed to name or talk about on this public of a forum. (Hint: find "Denver Airport")

You're Allowed :: December 1st

Every month I run into the same problem: I try and think of a new thing or things to say about a reading that goes basically on the same trajectory from month to month. Maybe this month I'll  try metaphors, some of which may or may not explain the general ambiance of that room on that day when we're all sitting in it:

-Dramamine is used to prevent nausea and when the ocean is far from our heads we feel sad.
-Fireflies in a field appear as strange landing pads for the kinds of birds that don't exist or won't land.
-The oranges are in a bowl. The bowl is on the table. We cannot eat them. If we do it will no longer be summer. They rot. It is still summer. It is about to snow.
-Alcohol has made us speak in a soft voice to our feet. The city is large. We may never hike again.
-When the dishes are used and piled in the sink I feel as if I have lots of friends.
-Buses have pretense of community. So do toes.
-Timmy Reed likes Wal-mart. There aren't that many ways to say hello. Only old or worried men say hello and feel it in their throat. Timmy Reed likes Wal-mart.
-Succulent plants look like they should taste like tequila but in a much different way than a pig + a cow should taste like a hot dog.

That ought to explain everything. Yes? Good. But if it doesn't, please send all questions to nobodyslistening@wedontcare.com.

Bios:

-Megan Boyle has jumped into a freezing cold bay though no one wanted her to. She came out smiling and smoked a cigarette. She has broken her ribs on a seesaw at 3am. She married Tao Lin in Vegas. The preacher was old and looked tired. The garishness of ceremony happened only virtually. She has peed in your sandbox. She has a new book out called "Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee" (Muumuu House). She has been published by online places: here, here, here, here, etc. etc.


-Sarah Jane Miller hosts the Town Square Reading series at the marvelous Minás Gallery in Hampden, 3rd Sundays, and she wants to see you there. When not working as a saddle-shoed librarian, she can be found running, cooking curries, and watching old Bela Lugosi films.

-Little Lungs Little Hips is a band. They are girls. Grietje Smid may kick your ass and plays violin. Megan Lloyd plays guitar, sings and is Little Lungs Little Hips.
 

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You're Allowed :: November 3rd

It feels like forever since we've done one of these, these, reading-things. Though it's only been a little over a month. But no matter, we've missed the hell out of you, my darlings (note the hint of Royal Tenenbaums).  So this month, in order to get back into the swing of things, we're coming back to Dionysus with a bang. We are proud to feature two great poets, Mike Young and Kendra Kopelke. And as always we'll cap the night off with an open mic.

See ya'll on the third floor.

-Mike Young is the author of Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010), a book of stories, and We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius Press 2010), a book of poems. He co-edits NOÖ Journal and runs Magic Helicopter Press. He lives in Baltimore, MD.

You can read some of Mike's work here or here or here or here or here or here.

-Kendra Kopelke is a widely acclaimed poet and a fixture on the Baltimore literary scene. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and was named “Best Poet” by Baltimore Magazine in 2001. Kopelke’s poetry collections include: Eager Street; Carpe Diem, Ants (the link has nothing to do with the book, it just reminded me of the title); Bladderville; and Hopper’s Women. She is also included in the anthology, When Divas Dance. She is founding editor of Passager, a national literary journal.

DogDownDirty Halloween Party :: You're Allowed

DogDownDirty from Melissa Streat on Vimeo.

For the October reading we've decided to change things up a bit: we've dropped the pretense that anyone cares about words or literature* and for this month only we're just going to have a party, a gore-filled, rafter-swinging, dark, dirty, dance-crazy Halloween party. Why would we do this? Well, we decided to make the change from our normally scheduled reading series for two reasons: one, we just wanted to; and two, all the editors of Artichoke Haircut are themselves writers, and, as you probably know, there are a few things all writers love: one, masks (read persona), and two, carnivals, big debauchery filled carnivals, where every rule you've decided for whatever reason to follow is simply thrown out of consideration for really no reason at all. The whole of the world is one huge masquerade, and what other holiday in all of Christendom allows one the opportunity to have all these at the same time: Halloween (yeah, I know, I thought of Mardi Gras too, but this is Baltimore not New Orleans). So Halloween it is.

There will be drinks, Dj's, and prizes for the craziest costume – judged by us of course. Believe you me, you wanna dress up because you're going to want this prize. For now we can't tell you what it is, but all will be revealed on the 22nd. 

And for those of you who must have their reading in October, there is a solution. Earlier that very day ('round 6 or 6:30) Liam's is also going to host a reading, dubbed the "Hidden History Happy Hour," presented by Melville House. So one could think of the 22nd as a literary extravaganza, or just a reading and a party – whatever. But don't worry, next month we'll be back at Dionysus, and back with our readings and open mic, and all will be back in its rightful place.

So dress up, and we'll see you at Liam's on the 22nd.


*Just in case you didn't get it, this was a joke.

An Early October Cold :: from American Life in Poetry

Here we repost the weekly poetry column brought to you, free of charge, by American Life in Poetry – an organization supported by The Poetry Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, Ted Koosner. This week is presented a windy-cold and haunting poem by Don Thompson:

October

I used to think the land

had something to say to us,

back when wildflowers

would come right up to your hand

as if they were tame.

Sooner or later, I thought,

the wind would begin to make sense

if I listened hard

and took notes religiously.

That was spring.

Now I’m not so sure:

the cloudless sky has a flat affect

and the fields plowed down after harvest

seem so expressionless,

keeping their own counsel.

This afternoon, nut tree leaves

blow across them

as if autumn had written us a long letter,

changed its mind,

and tore it into little scraps.

Dance Baby Dance :: A CityLit Benefit

After the first night of Baltimore’s annual Book Festival winds down, the Literature Party is just beginning.

A major literary event is scheduled for Friday, September 23, to benefit CityLit’s “Across Words” program. The event, called “Literature Party,” will feature readings, immersive performances, and  DJ's. It is scheduled in partnership with Betascape, an art and technology festival happening the same weekend.



The benefit party, emceed by local artist and poet Stephanie Barber, will feature readings by Blake Butler, author of four books from major and independent presses; CAConrad, a 2011 Pew Fellow; Dorothea Lasky, whose books Awe and Black Life have been praised in The Boston Globe and ArtVoice; and Mike Young, a new Baltimore transplant whose books "We Are All Good and Look! Look! Feathers" were praised by Publishers Weekly. Additionally, Baltimore-based DJs DJ WOMAN and John Eaton are scheduled to play music.

WHAT: Literature Party: A reading and dance party
WHEN: Friday, September 23. 8pm.
WHERE: Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles Street
WHO: A benefit for CityLit’s Across Words program, sponsored by Artichoke Haircut,
BETASCAPE, JMWW, Narrow House Books, Normals, and Publishing Genius Press
FEATURING: A mix of local and national writers, several raffles, an audiobook recording, and
a dance party.

More information at the event website, www.literaturepartybaltimore.info.

RSVP on facebook here.

The way to increase long locks Appropriately

So, just how does one grow their head of hair extended? For you to improve your curly hair longer you should make sure that you prevent leakages through the natural environment and also wear, environment factors such as sun exposure, blowing wind, whack drying out, styling iron as well as other heat styling tools, actually washing as well as cleaning, will certainly combine with each other for you to gradually erode flowing hair and make it tough growing hair prolonged. All this particular environment publicity will eventually result in separated finishes that may, therefore, cause flowing hair breaking away from.

Several people want prolonged hair to achieve the possibility to have any prolonged hairstyle they desire. After all it can be just what appears to be popular, long hairstyles typically displayed healthier hair.

You must also have appropriate combing to develop prolonged head of hair, merely comb adequate for you to disperse the natural oils out of your head towards the all your hair. This will aid nice hair expand long.

Understand that real hair develops with a distinct fee for everybody particular person. The best way to grow long tresses are to maintain wholesome along with consume a excellent good diet too. The body's defence mechanism is essential in order to healthful hair development and foodstuff plays many inside the wellbeing of one's disease fighting capability which in turn demonstrates on the skin and also charge of growth of hair.

For too long hair regrowth be sure to work with an natural shampoo and use natural skin oils in promoting new hair growth

The way to increase long locks Appropriately

So, just how does one grow their head of hair extended? For you to improve your curly hair longer you should make sure that you prevent leakages through the natural environment and also wear, environment factors such as sun exposure, blowing wind, whack drying out, styling iron as well as other heat styling tools, actually washing as well as cleaning, will certainly combine with each other for you to gradually erode flowing hair and make it tough growing hair prolonged. All this particular environment publicity will eventually result in separated finishes that may, therefore, cause flowing hair breaking away from.

Several people want prolonged hair to achieve the possibility to have any prolonged hairstyle they desire. After all it can be just what appears to be popular, long hairstyles typically displayed healthier hair.

You must also have appropriate combing to develop prolonged head of hair, merely comb adequate for you to disperse the natural oils out of your head towards the all your hair. This will aid nice hair expand long.

Understand that real hair develops with a distinct fee for everybody particular person. The best way to grow long tresses are to maintain wholesome along with consume a excellent good diet too. The body's defence mechanism is essential in order to healthful hair development and foodstuff plays many inside the wellbeing of one's disease fighting capability which in turn demonstrates on the skin and also charge of growth of hair.

For too long hair regrowth be sure to work with an natural shampoo and use natural skin oils in promoting new hair growth

A Film, a Contest, and Lots of Submissions

Artichoke Haircut Presents "You're Allowed" from Melissa Streat on Vimeo.

For Artichoke Haircut, the coming months are going to be filled with readings, benefits, conferences, the opening of submissions for our winter magazine (see more on this below), etc. etc. But for now, let's just take a second to bask in video's warm glowing warming glow.



If you stopped at that last period to watch the video above you may be saying to yourself, "What the hell?" We said that too, but we have an explanation: "Artichoke Haircut Presents "You're Allowed" is an absurdist study of man's journey through the distopian realities of modern city life, while being followed by a pernicious and ominous force that will eventually consume him..." Ha. Do you believe that? You shouldn't. We just like strange things. And during the summer we realized that we had a horse-head mask and few extra moments so we made a movie. We had a lot of fun making it and we really hope you have fun watching it. Don't tear your hair out over meaning.

Now on to some business. Artichoke Haircut is now open for submissions. Submit your poems, stories or artwork to submit@artichokehaitcut.com. Make sure to put contact info in the body of the email, but please do not send us your life's story. We will ask for a brief bio only after we have read your submissions and made our final selections. For more info on submitting to the magazine click here.

In addition to our normal submission process, we are also running a small contest for Baltimore area residents. We are asking local writers to write a poem or a short story (no more than 800 words) that includes the line, "Sorry I got it in your eye." All submissions for the CONTEST should be sent to contest@artichokehaircut.com by October 24th. More on the prize to come. Please do not send contest entries to our submit email.

So that's it for now. There will be much more to come from us, including a blow-out Halloween party (hint hint), but for the time being, start sending us your work!

Proper Shampoo For Your Long Hair

What shampoo are you using for your hair? Is it good?

Most people believe that shampoo is very good for their long hair. But for me some shampoo is not very good for your personal hair. I think you should apply it only when long hair is damage. You should employ natural products to clean and manage your long hair. Indeed, in case your hair is especially damage, by trying natural products before shampooing them away.

It will help you hair use a healthier growth. Some chemicals in shampoo destroy the natural scales in your hair and make it more damaged and tangled. The best option is to use natural conditioners for your long hair.

With the intention to keep healthy a long time and frizzy hair, utilize a pure shampoo that has pure elements.

Proper Shampoo For Your Long Hair

What shampoo are you using for your hair? Is it good?

Most people believe that shampoo is very good for their long hair. But for me some shampoo is not very good for your personal hair. I think you should apply it only when long hair is damage. You should employ natural products to clean and manage your long hair. Indeed, in case your hair is especially damage, by trying natural products before shampooing them away.

It will help you hair use a healthier growth. Some chemicals in shampoo destroy the natural scales in your hair and make it more damaged and tangled. The best option is to use natural conditioners for your long hair.

With the intention to keep healthy a long time and frizzy hair, utilize a pure shampoo that has pure elements.

The Parthenon & Pollution :: Don DeLillo on Fiction

It's rare that Don DeLillo would appear in public to read or give a lecture. For many years he refused to do either. Now in his old, or older, age he has been coming out of his shell to appear in public. This is a particularly interesting gem I recently found on a page to promote his newest book Point Omega (Scribner 2010). It's an excerpt from a lecture he gave on language and the art of fiction.

Words & Whisky :: You're Allowed

So what’s with the horse head? A couple of you may have noticed pictures of an editor dressed in a centaur-esque getup… No, it might be more accurate to say he’s the opposite of a centaur, with the head of a horse and the body of a man… Hold on, is that the opposite?… Wouldn’t the opposite of a centaur have the body of an animal opposite a horse, like a mermaid? No, that doesn’t make sense either. How can anything be opposite a horse?



Anyway, he kind of looks like Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and his image has been floating around Facebook and here on the blog. You may have even seen him sitting at one of our readings. Well, for the last three or four months we’ve been working on a short film which will premier at our next reading with Marion Winik, Dave K. (bio below) and a very secret and special guest* on September 1st. I’d post something of a summary of the film here but I’m not exactly sure how. It’s just absurd, and that’s how we like it. You’ll just have to come to the reading and see for yourself.

You know the drill, third floor of Dionysus, 8:30ish, and as always, fun and drinks abound.

Oh yeah, and coming soon, Halloween...


Bio:

Dave K. is a writer, graphic designer, and theater tech who lives in Baltimore. He is a regular contributor to Adfreak, TSB Mag, and the Gettysburg Times, and his creative writing has been published in The Bullet, Ghoti Hook, Battered Suitcase, the Nautilus Engine, ULA Redux, The Light Ekphrastic, and Welter, among others. Dave K. is also a small, dense star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter.

*The guest has been revealed... Shucker (onemanawsomeband).

It Has to Live in The Air :: A Conversation with Baltimore’s Own Chris Toll

“The more trash, the better,” he said.

I agreed.

We both had some vague notion of a Baltimorean aesthetic in mind.  We both lacked any aptitude for digital photography.  We had come there, though,—to the littered Station North alleyway—to communicate as best we could.
   
It was, admittedly, a rocky start.  Our photographer had dropped out last-minute, leaving my jittery, untrained eye to capture the essence of Chris Toll, a man who I quite honestly had no idea how to talk to.  It was quickly becoming clear that the Chris Toll with whom I had become acquainted through my week-long intake of The Disinformation Phase, that strong-voiced, verbally decisive work of certain apocalypse, was locked away deep inside the man who now stood arms-folded in front of me, unapologetically tangible and soft-spoken.  A “recovering catholic,” as he would later put it.  I was utterly unprepared.

This is not to say that I hadn’t spent the previous week versing myself on all things Chris Toll; I, along with my friend and fellow editor Justin Sanders, had systematically devoured the Baltimore-native’s poetry in that stereotypical post-graduate manner.  We showed up to the interview complete with thematic insights, biographical inquiries, and possible inconsistencies in the work, all of which were intended to give the poet enough room to embellish, as one might expect a poet to do.  The problem: Chris Toll is more than “a poet.”  He is a vessel of the “higher self.”

I’d heard this sort of philosophy before, and I admittedly reacted to it with a hefty dose of reactionary skepticism.  Personally, I don’t buy into any divine (or external for that matter) intervention when it comes to a poet and his work—we are the only ones who get in our way.  So, I jumped right into the accusations.

“Right,” I said, “but there’s a lot of you in The Disinformation Phase,” citing the speaker’s repetitive use of the possessive.  There are two examples in the first poem alone: “My cathedral/ blows its brains out…My slaughterhouse/ mixes a martini for the moon.” 

He paused before delineating his approach: “The ‘I’ is invisible.  You can read this whole book and learn nothing about me.  The ‘I’ is you.”  His response, it seemed, was a convoluted poem in itself. 

Feeling as though we’d reached some sort of dead end, I shifted the focus to a more concrete discussion of the poetic devices at play in the collection.  Less controversial.  Safer, I thought.

“Do you pay attention to form,” I asked him.  This, I hoped, would elicit a more involved response.  Aside from writing poetry, Toll also works within the bodily—as he describes it—arena of collage art (see the cover of The Disinformation Phase for an example). 

“I do a lot of fourteen-line poems,” he replied.  “I have this thing about numbered lines.  I like even-numbered lines.  It’s a good answer to nothing.”

Okay.  So he was interested in answers.
“Do all of your poems ask questions,” I asked.

He thought about that for a minute, stared down at his beer.  “I always want my poems to be a voyage of discovery,” he explained.  “I get one line and then I just see what comes in.  I use wordplay as a way to go from one spot to another, but they almost always end in questions.  There is no answer; the question is everything.”

At this point, we couldn’t have agreed more.  I was confused; all of my carefully accumulated knowledge about Toll’s poetry had just been dismantled.  What I had painstakingly dissected and identified as a definitive stance on the impending collapse of a post-cultural America (albeit through the eyes of an ambivalent speaker), was turning out to be a random heap of questions that could care less about being answered. 

I wanted an answer: “The Disinformation Phase feels as if it’s searching for a connection between a reckless past and an indifferent future.  The present just seems to teeter …Do you have faith in the present?”

Again, he took a minute to stare down at his beer.  “This is the 21st century,” he said.  “There is hope for salvation.  There’s a lot of confusion, too.  I welcome confusion.  Confusion is good.”

I was a dumbstruck attorney in what had been a strange trial of my own self-absorbed search for objective meaning in the poetry of a stranger.  I wasn’t sure who had really been on the stand, or what conclusions—if any—could be drawn from the evidence presented, but I knew I had to rest my case.  We had reached the point of “no further questions.” 

Our pen and paper put away, the recording devices powered down, Justin and I made small talk with Chris while we finished our drinks.  We mostly compared notes on the pleasures and frustrations of running a reading series (he co-curates the traveling Benevolent Armchair series, which—currently in its third season—migrates between Baltimore and York, PA).

Eventually, I ran out of conversational steam.  My mind was elsewhere, trying to figure out how the hell I was going to piece this interview into something definitive and relevant.  I thought it a good time to head out. 

As I gathered up the empty glasses, Chris was wrapping up a final thought.  “You know, to me a poem isn’t finished until it’s spoken aloud in front of a stranger.”  He pulled me from clearing the table, with a certain urgency.

“Write this down,” he said.  “Poems live in the air.  It doesn’t necessarily have to be a stranger…and I’m not a spoken word poet…but poems live in the air.”

Looking back, I like to think that he was throwing me a bone.  


        -By Jon Gavazzi


For more info, and to get a copy of Chris Toll's new book click here or here.

Another Installment of "You're Allowed"

This month we present two of our favorite writers, Stephen Matanle and Lily Herman. Plus we will be premiering our very strange trailer for the reading series and the magazine. This is a must see reading. Or maybe not, this damn thing is out of our control. Who knows what is going to happen.

And as always, the open mic will have 10 available slots that are first come first serve. If you would like to read come early, they always fill up.

See you on the third floor.