Dave Brinks - Judge, The InterBoard Poetry Competition

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Dave Brinks

August 2005 & February - March 2006 Judge, InterBoard Poetry Competition

Dave Brinks’s poetic heart rests in the hands of gods like Anubis whose knowledge of the human soul’s journey through the land of the dead is equal to a feather. He is the editor of YAWP: A Magazine of the Arts and proprietor of The Gold Mine Saloon, a multidisplinary arts venue in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where he hosts the 17 Poets! weekly reading series. His collections of poetry include Trial And Eros, How Birds Fly, The Secret Brain, The Caveat Onus and The Light on Earth Street, as well as the recently published collaboration, The Treehouse Aquarium Cathedral Room (New Directions), with poet Bernadette Mayer (The Scarlet Tanager).

For samples of Brinks’s work, browse these links:

Five of his poems were published in the very first cyber issue of Exquisite Corpse.
“slingshot of the golden loam,” which he authored in collaboration with Andrei Codrescu, appears online in Exquisite Corpse Cyber Issue 3.
Selections from The Secret Brain and a couple of his collaborative works with other poets were published in Exquisite Corpse Cyber Issue 5-6.
His poem “On Waking” and a collaboration with Paul Chasse are in Exquisite Corpse Cyber Issue 11.
An audio excerpt from his poem “Sleeping the Piano,” recorded with Eluard Burt on flute, is available online at Hearing Voices.
Three of the poems from his chapbook, The Snow Poems: First Snow appear at Lavender Ink.
Five of his poems are online in Plunge,“immersive art, music, writing, life... New Orleans and beyond...”