The Splatter Trio and I have co-written, co-produced, and co-published a new book of this name that accounts for our collaborative work together in the early 1990s as well as featuring 50 pages of my own writing from that period, almost none before published anywhere. The $30 product includes a CD with 40 studio tracks 100% improvised as an ensemble over a two-day period in 1992, as well as a link to bonus tracks available on line, at Rastacan, where the CD-book is being sold in an edition limited to 200. We are totally jazzed, as we all were knocked out by these recordings when we got round to hearing them three decades later.

AS IT HAPPENS release

AS IT HAPPENS presents three previously unpublished long poems I wrote between 2011 and 2018 (except the third one appeared as FETRALCOS in my tumblr feed, as it was being written) and looking good, owing in large part to great design and editorial support I got from Gordon Faylor. The book handles well and feels solid, all 236 pages of it, including a short statement on how I wrote it, and I've priced it at just $10. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/steve-benson/as-it-happens/paperback/product-v59z54.html?page=1&pageSize=4

I responded to another invitation by recording an 85-minute talking reading on David W. Pritchard's SoundCloud-housed podcast, Raw Materials. David's made several outstanding recordings in 2020 exploring his own and others' poetics and products, and my intentions were to live up to his example as well as I could.