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POST-POP LIT TAPE:
2 POEMS IN AN EMERGENCY:
2 POEMS IN PPL:
“JOHN DONNE” READ IN CHICAGO:
BOOK OF 16 ICELANDIC TRANSLATIONS + photography:
Publications
Poetry +
– “Our Stories” – “I Don’t Trust Birds” – “JOHN DONNE” – “Christmas Dinner” – “Void Where Prohibited” – “The Foundation for Giving Up and Killing Yourself” – “As It Isn’t” – “Pure Moods” – “Final Form” – “The Cape Girardeau Incident” – “Shopping Complex” – “Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg” – “The Conil Incident” – “Visitors from the Red Star” – “It’s Science” – “Calibration” (pic) – “I Might Be Dumb but I’m Not Stupid” – “Slime Girl” – “Night of Bush Capturing” – “Masculinity” – “To Feed” – “A Winner is You” – “Work Hard & Dream Big” – Bonus Zones – “Variations on a Physical Pain” – “Dwelling” – “The Cartoon Snake Becomes the Real” (pic) – “Flat Earth Theory” – “From the Jellyfish Room” (pic) – “Waka Flocka Flame y Yo” (Spanish trans. Martín Rangel) – “Poem Against Life in Spring” – “Under Less Advanced Fluorescents” – “Two Stars, and a Sliver of a Third” (ft. Alec Robbins) – “I Need to View This .pdf File” – Tom Clancy Erasure Poems #1-5 – “Luigi Raceway” – Video Interview for Matthew Sherling (ft. Danya Bush and Chelsea Errante) – A Series of Visual Spam Poems – “Hello, Young America” poem + recording (ft. Kyle Landstra) – “Calming Haiku” – “Mr. Green, In the Billiard Room, With the Revolver”, for Bob Schofield’s Clue zine – “4 Can’t-Miss Lifehacks That Will Change Your Life!” – “Your House Party Sucks But You’re Having Fun” – “Depressed Obama” poem + short animated film (link to short film here) – 3 Excerpts from Alien Drug – “Welcome to My Garden” – “Waka Flocka Flame & I” – “3 Deads” – Robert Frost rearrangement – “Dead Fireworks & Downward Spiral” spoken word recording – “Arbitrary Names for Complex Emotions”Emergency: A Zine
– “The Forgotten Joke” (repub)As It Is, Vol. 4
– “I Trust Birds Now”
– “Earlier Today”Post-Pop Lit
– “BABY”Merry Chrismazine
As It Is, Vol. 3
Post-Pop Lit
– “Bad Ideas”
– “Loving Yourself”As It Is, Vol. 2
– “Cats Purr In the Wild” Post-Pop Lit
Poem Pilled
Apocalypse Confidential
Metatron Digipubs Series
Iterant
– “Burnt Knowledge”
– “Fog Object”
– “An Imagined Encounter”Bullshit Lit
– “Wan Hu”
– “Grays of Angol”
– “Winery Frog”
– “Viktor Kostrykin” Peach Magazine
tenderness lit
– “The Forgotten Joke”Witch Craft Magazine #5
Spy Kids Review #5
– “New Year’s Eve in Marfa, TX”
– “The Question for God”Reality Hands
Cartridge Lit
Reality Hands
The Teenagers Company
Reality Beach
Voicemail Poems
Ghost City Press: Summer Micro-Chap Series
ÖMËGÄ
– “Poem Against Life in Summer”Spy Kids Review (Online Edition)
Alien Mouth Spring Quarterly
Dirty Chai
– “Endlings”Spy Kids Review
Marvin
Window Cat Press
– “Skeletons”ÖMËGÄ
Three Video Poems from Bird Lizard Horse
– “Mario Parties” (ft. @pizzaboyfriend)
– “Hello, Young America” (ft. Steven Michael Holmes)Maudlin House
– “Love Poem (w/ Notation and Criticism by August Smith)”(self-published) Imgur
Queen Mob’s Teahouse
– “Moo Moo Farm”Cutty Spot
– Excerpt of “Choco Mountain”Fruita Pulp
90’s Meg Ryan
Internet Poetry
In the Peacock with the Plum
Electric Cereal
– “Spectral Shift / Sine Wave”CIRCLE
– “Jokes”
– “Everything Ending Twice and Again”theNewerYork
Helsinki Slang
Gesture
NTWICAL
Banango Street
Clearly Stated
#boifreindz EP
The Laureate
– “The Love Letter as a Method of Academic Discourse”
Chapbooks +
(Here’s a ZIP file of all my chapbooks) Empty Boat Circling, 2018 Self-published Emotions: psychedelic, content, joyous, adventurous Form: chapbook By Which Texture Do We Find Truth, 2017 Published by: Reality Hands Emotions: disengaged lyric Form: chapbook, ebook Malfunctions, 2017 Published by: Cool Skull Press, as a split with Dylan Lancaster Emotions: spontaneous, downtrodden, devil-may-care, heartbroken, snarky Form: book (available here) Bonus Zones, 2016 Published by: Ghost City Press, as part of their Summer Microchapbook Series 2016 Emotions: whimsical, motivated, wistful, nostalgic, calm, surreal Form: ebook (available here) Bird Lizard Horse, 2015 Published by: Nostrovia! Poetry, as winner of the Nostrovia Chapbook Contest in 2015 Emotions: witty, jester-like, mocking, mystical, zany, hypercubes Form: printed chapbook (sold out), pdf (available here) The Mario Kart 64 Poems, 2015 Published by: Cool Skull Press Emotions: strident, serious, enlightened, self-serious, powerful, no nonsense Form: printed chapbook (available here) Alien Drug, 2013 Self-Published Emotions: angry, detached, bitter, frustrated, calculating, darkness Form: ebook (available here) I’m Having a Blast, 2013 Self-Published (more info) Emotions: histrionic, anxious, happy/sad (simultaneous), excited, communal, minor manor Form: printed chapbook (sold out), pdf (available on this page) Self-Published (more info) Emotions: melancholy, homesick, sick, nostalgic, hermetic, organic v. synthetic Form: click-thru ebook (readable here), printed chapbook (sold out)
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Upperpeninsula, 2012
Selected Nonfiction +
– “Craft Narrative: Blue Star Invaders,” the addendum to my book. – Review of Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From by Sawako Nakayasu – Review of Beautiful and Useless by Kim Min Jeong – Review of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party by Chessie Normile – Review of Dogteeth by Levi Cain – “Ludonarrative Synthesis: How ‘Baba Is You’ Distorts a Decades-Old Videogame Theory Debate” – Includes reviews of books by Danez Smith, Jos Charles, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jennie Xie, Nicole Sealy, Mary Jo Bang, and Lorca. – “Escaping into Sound (Of Ceres),” an analytical essay on Sound of Ceres’ (Apples in Stereo, Candy Claws) album – Collaborative review of Erica Mena’s Featherbone w/ Elysia Smith – HOW TO LISTEN TO GEM JONES’ “ADMIRAL FRENCHKISS” – Short piece about the death of iGoogle, and turtles. – “Clearly Stated: A Collaborative Lit Project” More can be found at:Apocalypse Confidential
Vagabond City Lit
Vagabond City Lit
Vagabond City Lit
Vagabond City Lit
Medium
BookPage poetry book reviews
Mostly Midwest
Breakwater Review
Mostly Midwest
AltCrit
Banango Lit
BookPage
Woven Tale Press
Mostly Midwest
Western Herald
Press Coverage
Reviews/Features +
Alec Robbins’ Video Review of “I’m Having a Blast”
Sentence from “The Mario Kart 64 Poems” featured at Entropy
“The Mario Kart 64 Poems” featured on Entropy’s “Best of 2015” list (#48)
Two Pushcart Prize nominations: “Two Stars […]” and “Horse”
Review of “The Mario Kart 64 Poems” (Fanzine)
Twitch.tv Spotlight on “The Mario Kart 64 Poems” by the MK64Bros
Shortlisted for the 2015 Metratron Prize for Rising Authors
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (probably crying review)
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (Beach Sloth!)
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (Dave Higgins)
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (Blotterature)
Interviews +
The Line Break
The Society Show
Low Fi Lit
Electric Poetry radio interview
The Podcast with Brian Huntress
Giving Grief: Can Alec Robbins Make Me Cry?
Tell Me What You’re Reading
Blotterature
Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon (Boston Free Radio interview)
E. Kristin Anderson (re: Goddessmode)
The Ruby Spellbook
Cutty Spot (Video Interview)
Alec Robbins’ Video Review of “I’m Having a Blast”
Sentence from “The Mario Kart 64 Poems” featured at Entropy
“The Mario Kart 64 Poems” featured on Entropy’s “Best of 2015” list (#48)
Two Pushcart Prize nominations: “Two Stars […]” and “Horse”
Review of “The Mario Kart 64 Poems” (Fanzine)
Twitch.tv Spotlight on “The Mario Kart 64 Poems” by the MK64Bros
Shortlisted for the 2015 Metratron Prize for Rising Authors
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (probably crying review)
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (Beach Sloth!)
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (Dave Higgins)
Review of “Bird Lizard Horse” (Blotterature)
The Line Break
The Society Show
Low Fi Lit
Electric Poetry radio interview
The Podcast with Brian Huntress
Giving Grief: Can Alec Robbins Make Me Cry?
Tell Me What You’re Reading
Blotterature
Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon (Boston Free Radio interview)
E. Kristin Anderson (re: Goddessmode)
The Ruby Spellbook
Cutty Spot (Video Interview)
Other Stuff
Video Poems +
Side Projects/Collaborations +
Show Posters I’ve Made
The Teenagers Company products:
ALTERNATE TIMELINE WHERE MACBETH SAVAGELY BEATS MACDUFF WITH A CROWBAR
Synths on 2 tracks from Still Submarine’s “Warmer Shades of You” EP
Show Posters I’ve Made
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The Teenagers Company products:
ALTERNATE TIMELINE WHERE MACBETH SAVAGELY BEATS MACDUFF WITH A CROWBAR
Synths on 2 tracks from Still Submarine’s “Warmer Shades of You” EP
The Gamer’s Corner
Game Projects +
– Adventure made for cancelled “Drivel Dravel” SXSW event. – Project made for the “Hello Neighbor” group exhibition, Nov. 23 2019, put on by Chicon St. Poets and Vurv.SXSWXSXWXSXW
Poem Simulator
Music I Made
Bandcamp +
Between You & Me / Mind Loser, 2026 Self-Released A Partial List of My Flaws / Wrong Ones, 2025 Self-Released Sativa / Indica, 2025 Self-Released Monsieur Mash, I Presume?, 2024 Self-Released Sun Goes Down / Ithryn Luin, 2024 Self-Released Big Bend, 2022 Self-Released Plume Ruiner LP, 2021 Self-Released Don’t Hesitate EP, 2020 Self-Released
Contact +
Email: augustjsmith @ gmail . com
Twitter: @augustjsmith
About +
August is a poet in Austin, TX.
He’s me. I’m writing this. August is me.
I don’t know why I started in third person.
This place is mostly poems, some songs and games,
a few interviews and journalism things,
lots of dead links, old stuff I hate, stuff I made.
Pretty neat, huh? I invented this.
I call it:
“web site.”
Genie +
Ah-HA! You’ve freed me from my slumber!
I’ve been magically entrapped in that expand tab thing
for three thousand years! Cursed to watch the years tick by,
each century a grain of sand in a miles-high hourglass!
But alas, you have freed me! Yes! Freed me!
And now you get THREE WISHES! That’s right.
THREE WISHES! And I won’t do what other genies do
where you wish for something and I find some way
to make it shitty. So what will it be, adventurer?
Do you have what it takes? To wish for what you want?
Email: augustjsmith @ gmail . com
Twitter: @augustjsmith
August is a poet in Austin, TX.
He’s me. I’m writing this. August is me.
I don’t know why I started in third person.
This place is mostly poems, some songs and games,
a few interviews and journalism things,
lots of dead links, old stuff I hate, stuff I made.
Pretty neat, huh? I invented this.
I call it:
“web site.”
Genie +
Ah-HA! You’ve freed me from my slumber!
I’ve been magically entrapped in that expand tab thing
for three thousand years! Cursed to watch the years tick by,
each century a grain of sand in a miles-high hourglass!
But alas, you have freed me! Yes! Freed me!
And now you get THREE WISHES! That’s right.
THREE WISHES! And I won’t do what other genies do
where you wish for something and I find some way
to make it shitty. So what will it be, adventurer?
Do you have what it takes? To wish for what you want?
Ah-HA! You’ve freed me from my slumber!
I’ve been magically entrapped in that expand tab thing
for three thousand years! Cursed to watch the years tick by,
each century a grain of sand in a miles-high hourglass!
But alas, you have freed me! Yes! Freed me!
And now you get THREE WISHES! That’s right.
THREE WISHES! And I won’t do what other genies do
where you wish for something and I find some way
to make it shitty. So what will it be, adventurer?
Do you have what it takes? To wish for what you want?