You're at your computer. Tickets are a tense, electrifying few seconds from going on sale. Eyeing the time, you're hitting "Refresh," and elsewhere, all your friends are doing the exact same thing. That's Paul Siegell's jambandbootleg. A widespread, high-spirited head rush. Desperation, fretfulness--all out life-leaping. "The party starts in the parking lot," indeed. With poems shaped like a guitar, the American flag, even a Golgi apparatus, Paul's monumental artworks could easily transform into posters. His is a poetry of exploration, heart and astonishment. Simply put: read Paul Siegell's music. Read it as if listening to the bangingest bootleg.
"MOST A-MY HEROES EXIST AS MYTHS, SO I CHEER FOR MY FRIENDS INSTEAD"
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Paul Siegell is the author of three books of poetry: WILD LIFE RIFLE FIRE (Otoliths, 2010), JAMBANDBOOTLEG (A-Head, 2009) and POEMERGENCY ROOM (Otoliths, 2008).
Born on Long Island, educated in Pittsburgh, employed in Orlando, Atlanta and now Philadelphia, Paul is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly and has contributed to the American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Rattle, and many other fine journals. He has also been featured in Paste and Relix Magazines, the Philadelphia City Paper, Surrender to the Flow, and elsewhere exciting.
Kindly find more of Paul's work at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com).
