Greg Santos

News

February 25, 2010: "Siem Reap, Cambodia" appears in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.  

February 2010: "The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get" appears in Rogue Stimulus: Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Mansfield Press).

February 9, 2010: "Baby, I'm Scared of You" appears in A Blog of Remixes of Exceptional Quality. 

January 27, 2010: "The Prodigal Son" and "Amnesiac" appear in My Name Is Mud. 

January 21, 2010: Greg was interviewed by Jason Behrends for What To Wear During An Orange Alert. 

January, 2010: "Let be be finale of seem" appears in Poems About Expiring.

December, 2009: "1519-The First Birdbrain" appears in For Every Year. 

December, 2009: "I GaGa" appears in A Blog of Remixes of Exceptional Quality. 

December, 2009: "1517-Epidemic Warning Signs" appears in For Every Year. 

November 29, 2009: "Honey, the Appliances Are Singing Again" appears in Spilt Milk. 

November 18, 2009: "A Love Poem for Shelley by Hulk" appears in This Zine Will Change Your Life. 

November, 2009: "From the Desk of Mr. Khan" appears in The Future Hygienic Anthology (PistolPress). Download the book for free here.

November 9, 2009: "Unhipsterish Earnestness" appears in The Brandi Wells Review. 

November 5, 2009: Michael Kimball posts a postcard life story about Greg Santos for the Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On A Postcard) project. 

November 4, 2009: Greg Santos reads at the Poetry Out Loud open mic, featuring Claire Zoghb. 

November 3, 2009: A video featuring Mel Bosworth reading "Employees Must Always Wash Their Hands Thoroughly Before Serving the Customer" by Greg Santos is posted on Mel Bosworth Reads Things. 

October, 2009: "How the Poet Laureate Spends His Days", "What, Me Worry?", and "To Whom It May Concern," appear in A Blog of Remixes of Exceptional Quality. 

September 19, 2009: "Tiny Elephants" appears in Elephant Summer.

September 11, 2009: "The Emperor in a State of Existential Crisis" appears in A Handful of Stones.

September 8, 2009: Thinking Things Through poetry series ebook is published by Pangur Ban Party.

August 22, 2009: "The Mirror" appears in Postcard Shorts.

August 22, 2009: "The Place Within" appears in Six Sentences.

August 21, 2009: "The Train is a Carnival of Lost Souls" and "Stairway" appear in Gloom Cupboard.

August 14, 2009: Greg interviews Jason Camlot (Part 4) on The Best American Poetry blog.

August 12, 2009: Greg interviews Jason Camlot (Part 3) on The Best American Poetry blog.

August 11, 2009: Greg interviews Jason Camlot (Part 2) on The Best American Poetry blog.

July 16, 2009: Greg interviews Jason Camlot (Part 1) on The Best American Poetry blog.

July 8. 2009: Greg presents Jason Camlot (2) on The Best American Poetry blog.

July 2, 2009: Greg presents Jason Camlot (1) on The Best American Poetry blog.

June 25, 2009: Greg will be a featured reader for the Favorite Poem Community Reading at Science Park in New Haven, CT.

June 21, 2009: Greg interviews Todd Swift (Part 3 of 3) on The Best American Poetry blog.

June 20, 2009: Greg interviews Todd Swift (Part 2 of 3) on The Best American Poetry blog.

June 19, 2009: Greg reads "The End of Desire is The End" on The Poesy Planet podcast.

June 19, 2009: Greg interviews Todd Swift (Part 1 of 3) on The Best American Poetry blog.

June 12, 2009: Greg presents Todd Swift (2) on The Best American Poetry blog.

June 5, 2009: Greg presents Todd Swift (1) on The Best American Poetry blog.

May 29, 2009: "Ghost Hares" appears in The Feathertale Review 4.

May 27, 2009: Greg was interviewed by Ryan Manning for Thunk.

May 10, 2009: Greg was interviewed by Nathan Tyree for Magazine of the Dead.

May 8, 2009: "Marine Biology" appears in Six Sentences.

May 3, 2009: "Suddenly" appears in the Brandi Wells Review.

April 27, 2009: Greg will be a featured reader at Yale/New Haven: A Reading of Local Writers, Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119 (320 York Street, New Haven, CT), Monday, April 27, 6-8pm. Also featuring Mark Oppenheimer, Brian Slattery, Alison Moncrief, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, Dan Casey, Bennet Lovet-Graff, Donald Brown, Caitie Barrett, Charles Douthat, and James Berger.

April 26, 2009: Greg will be a featured reader at The Brooklyn College Readings Series, 169 Bar (169 East Broadway, NYC), Sunday, April 26, 6:30pm. Also featuring Noah Grossman, Christina Olivares, Ken Walker, Yun Wei, Tim Carroll, Rosie Misdary, and Abba Belgrave.

April 21, 2009: See Greg's workspace at Sitting Pretty Magazine.

April 16, 2009: Greg will be a judge for the West Haven Public Library Youth Poetry Slam.

April 15, 2009: "Hulk Smash!" appears in The Best American Poetry Blog.  

April 7, 2009: "Autopilot" appears in the Brandi Wells Review.

March 3, 2009: A draft of "I Am the Emperor" appears in Hit and Run Magazine.

March, 2009: "Hulk Smash!", "Road trip", and "Winter is come" appear in Nthposition.

February 1, 2009: "The Emperor's Insomnia" appears in Six Sentences.

January 31, 2009: "I Am His Majesty's Most Trusted Servant", "Taking the Amtrak Vermonter on Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend to Brattleboro", and "Oh, Canada" appear on O Sweet Flowery Roses.

November 19, 2008: pax americanada, the special Canadian web issue of pax americana edited by Greg is launched and available online.  Contributors include Todd Swift, Stuart Ross, David McGimpsey, Jason Camlot, and many more.

September, 2008: "Paris Hilton on Tara Reid" appears in The Feathertale Review 3.

September, 2008: Greg will be an MFA student reader at The Earshot Reading Series at 8:00pm on Friday, September 26, 2008.  Other student readers will include Quressa Robinson (Columbia University), and Caledonia Kearns (Hunter College).  Jackie Corley (author of The Suburban Swindle) and Irina Reyn (author of What Happened to Anna K.) will be the evening's featured readers.

August, 2008: "Familiar Phrases" is the featured poem in The Egregious #4.

June, 2008: Oblivion Avenue can now be purchased with payment using PayPal through the Trainwreck Press Web Store.

May, 2008: Greg will be a featured reader at The Cornelia Street Cafe Graduate Poets Reading Series at 6:00pm on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The reading will also feature Rena Priest (Sarah Lawrence College), Michael Wilson (New School University), Caledonia Hearns (Hunter), Scotte Hardin (Sarah Lawrence) and host Alissa Heyman.

May, 2008: "Elegy" is poem #670 in the Poems-for-All series.

April 12, 2008: Dingers: Contemporary Baseball Writing and Greg are mentioned by Martin Levin in The Globe and Mail: "... a favorite, is Dingers: Contemporary Baseball Writing, edited by Montreal poet and ball fan David McGimpsey (DC Books, 150 pages, $18.95). This anthology, which explores the relationship between writer and game in poetry and prose, features writers both well known - George Bowering, Dave Bidini, Steven Hayward - and those well worth discovery - Mary Milgram, Greg Santos, Anastasia Jones."

April 7, 2008: "Midnight Concerts", "Man and Dog", and "Things are finally starting to look up" are online at pax americana (online issue #8).

March, 2008: 3 poems appear in the anthology Dingers: Contemporary Baseball Writing (DC Books).

February, 2008: New chapbook Oblivion Avenue (Trainwreck Press, 2008) is now available.

December 13, 2007: A featured poet at The New School's MFA Writing Program student reading.

November 24, 2007: "Showbiz" is in issue #2 of The Feathertale Review.

September 5, 2007: "Out of the blue" is online at ditch.

June, 2007: Named one of the jurors for the Quebec Writers' Federation's 2007 A.M. Klein Poetry Prize.

June 24-29, 2007: Attended the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers.

May 23, 2007: "To the Good People of Frontville" is in issue #2 of The Gloaming.

April 12, 2007: "Mourning" (poetry and audio), "How to Spot a Poet" (comic strip/poem), and the "Voce: Recorded Poems" DVD Project are in Palimpsest Volume 5.

April 10, 2007: "Alternate careers for former Expos mascot “Youppi!” should his stint with the Montreal Canadiens not work out" is online at Feathertale.

April 7, 2007: Listen to audio readings of poems in TothWorld Podcast #84.

March 12 2007: Letter appears in the Mail section of The New Yorker (Cover Date March 12, 2007).

January 21, 2007: "Showbiz" is online at Feathertale.

December 4, 2006: "On the Night Train" is online at the "Poems of the Week" section of Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate website. 

December 1, 2006: "Cities From Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities or Unique Baby Names From BabyNameWorld.com?" is online at McSweeney's Internet Tendency. 

November 16, 2006: Review of The Book of Jobs by Kathryn Maris is online at Boxcar Poetry Review.

October 2006: The short story "Viewer Discretion is Advised" is in the inaugural print issue of The Gloaming.

September 25, 2006: "Paris Hilton on Tara Reid" is online at Feathertale.

August 28, 2006: "Midnight Candies" is online at Sage of Consciousness.

August 23, 2006: "A Letter to Frito Lay" is online at Feathertale.

August, 2006: "Berry picking" broadside published by ImPress in a print run of 25.

August 10, 2006: Review of Gutted by Evie Christie is online at PoetryReviews.ca.

August 8, 2006: Review of radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait if bill bissett is online in the summer issue of The Link.

July 13, 2006: "Celebrities that should hook up just so we can hybridize their names" is in the summer print issue (#74) of Matrix Magazine.

July 4, 2006: Review of John Stiles' Creamsicle Stick Shivs is online at PoetryReviews.ca.

June 26, 2006: The humour piece "Rejected children's book titles" is online at Feathertale. 

June 21, 2006: "Retail Love" is in the Weekly Updates section of Black Heart Magazine.