Nick Courtright
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"No Poets Allowed"
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26 years old
Austin, Texas
United States
Last Login:7/24/2008
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| General | Oh jeez, anything but interests. Quantum physics and string theory? Language? Loving sports despite my awareness of their triviality? Endless debate on human cognitive development in the second and third tiers of consciousness? Wearing dress shoes? Doing laundry at the last minute possible? Teaching Composition and Literature to varyingly caring college students? Feeding my cat so she'll stop screaming at me? Going to concerts as a writer more than as a fan? Alphabetizing my books? Hiking until I am lost so I can imagine what it was like when nothing was discovered? Contemplation? Keeping everything clean except for my desk which must be in absolute disarray at all times? Writing poems that no one will ever read? Avoiding going to the grocery store? Efficiency? Sandwiches? Friendship?
Those are things in which I have no interest whatsoever. | | Music | I'm only listing some all-time favorites here, because this would get out of hand otherwise.
(Current Category): Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Joanna Newsom, Broadcast, Hot Chip, Animal Collective, Bjork, Sunset Rubdown, Panda Bear, Built to Spill, Of Montreal, Sigur Ros, Songs: Ohia, Kanye West, Yo La Tengo, Radio Citizen, Current 93, Black Keys, Cat Power, Andrew Bird, DeVotchKa, M. Ward, Six Organs of Admittance, Caribou, Do Make Say Think, and a million others I'm not allowing myself to list
(Historical Category) Charlie Parker, Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, Beatles, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bill Monroe, Shostakovich, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson, Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrane, Talk Talk, The Kinks, Ella Fitzgerald, Blind Melon, Bonnie Raitt, Smashing Pumpkins, Velvet Underground, ELO, Al Green, Portishead, Ramones, and The Police | | Books | (Poetry): Red Leaves of Night by David St. John, The Man in the Black Coat Turns by Robert Bly, The Essential Rumi, Collected Verse by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Third Hour of the Night by Frank Bidart
(Not Poetry): The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber, Missing Measures by Timothy Steele, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber
| | Heroes | Benvenuto Cellini, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Hawking, William Blake, Ken Wilber if he weren't such an egomaniacal weirdo, Federico Garcia Lorca, James Joyce, Frickin Einstein, Lao Tzu, Larry Doby, and my parents
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Nick Courtright's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Hometown: | Stow, Ohio | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Writer |
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Nick Courtright's Latest Blog Entry
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About me:
Dear Friends,
I regret to inform you that in lieu of anything even remotely resembling “interesting” or “clever” or, god forbid, “entertaining,” this MySpace page is hereby declared a receptacle—a trash bin, if you will—in which I will collect links to the spreading disease of “poetry” and “music-journalism” I have thusly thrust upon the earth and its unsuspecting airwaves, pages, and whatnot. Certainly, in some other world I could be compelled to use this space with greater “compassion,” or perhaps even “wisdom,” or at least “fewer quotation marks,” but alas, in this world, it is not to be. And so, my friends, consider yourself warned.
With gravest apologies,
Nick Courtright
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NEW POETRY ACCEPTANCES
The Kenyon Review Online is now featuring "Citrus" as part of the launch of their journal's online counterpart.
Gulf Coast has accepted "This Quiet Complex" for publication in an upcoming issue.
Connecticut Review has accepted “The Circuit” for publication in their Fall 2008 issue.
Third Coast has accepted “The Surveyor” for publication in their Fall 2008 issue.
The Cincinnati Review has accepted “Hourglass” for an upcoming issue.
Inkwell has accepted “Sheets” for publication.
OTHER FORTHCOMING POETRY
Massachusetts Review will be publishing “Peer Into.”
The Iowa Review will be publishing “Elegy for the Builder’s Wife” in its Spring issue.
Parthenon West will be publishing “A Man Who Could Have Been.”
American Poetry Journal will be publishing three poems--“Lesson,” “This Is a Clarification, pt. 3,” and “This is a mountain of silence and vindication.”
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
The Florida Review has “The Smallest Room.”
Identity Theory has “The traveler awakes. Her train awakes.”
Ninth Letter has “Preparing for the Fire.”
Redivider has “Anything but String Theory,” as well as Rebecca Hall's “La Maison du Fada.”
New Orleans Review features “Everyday Crash” on its website, and that poem as well as “All Those Globes” is in the print.
Harpur Palate has “July.”
Flyway has “Aubade (The Explorer’s Faith).”
Barrelhouse has “Don’t Worry, This Is Just the Beginning” and “Pop Song for Stephen Hawking.”
Denver Quarterly has “Ukraine Love Song.”
Kadar Koli, the journal run by David Hadbawnik, has Part II. of “Where the Workers Lived.”
My poetry has also appeared in the last couple years in Caketrain, Court Green, Salamander, The Portland Review, Diagram, Siren, The Pebble Lake Review, Phoebe, Ghoti, Cranky, Lilies & Cannonballs, Astropoetica, Zone 3, The Literary Review, and a few other random places.
MUSIC!
Check out my interview of Fiery Furnaces, or my interview with Battles, or my newest interviews with Built to Spill, WHY?, and Phosphorescent.
To read my impression of Radiohead's album release method, click here.
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. If you want to read my record reviews for Austinist, please click on the band name and magic will take you there:
Sunset Rubdown. Jens Lekman. Fiery Furnaces. The Castanets. Liars. Akron/Family.
Click on the conveniently intuitive link to read my concert reviews: the beautiful Joanna Newsom. MGMT, Explosions in the Sky, and (more creatively) Of Montreal. The incomparable Cat Power, and Ocote Soul Sound. Final Fantasy.
The Austinist is a culture, arts, and other stuff website in the pretty-damn-big Gothamist network.
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