1. I have been waking up at 6am the past two weeks just to do work all day for my upcoming Write Bloody book tour and book release show. It feels good to be productive and dedicated, but I am reminded again of how much work being an independent artist is. So many details, so many emails. The constant grind. 

2. My book release show finally booked a venue and date. January 29th, 7pm at Honey in Minneapolis. It is going to be such an amazing show. The openers are Kerry Alexander, John Jodzio, and A LOUD HEART (Guante & Claire Taubenhaus). I’ll be posting the FB event page, etc.

3. I am still booking shows for this spring! Email me at sierrademulder@gmail.com if you have any leads or questions. I’ll post the tour schedule soon!

4. This crazy man will be hosting my book release show.

For Kyle
www.guante.info

The emcee does not make eye contact.
He raps facing the speakers. His left side,
his good side, in profile, a portrait

of a dead president. He grips
the microphone like a teenager
jerking off to a jumbled porno.

He speaks to the beat, telling it
how to keep its shit together.
The audience is staring at him

but not really watching. The audience
is nodding their heads but they aren’t smiling.
They aren’t dancing or clapping or weeping.

They are just nodding their heads
and he is holding the microphone
not like a cock but like this is

the kind of pleasure that hurts.
Like this is the last thing his grandfather
said before unplugging himself.

Like this is the hottest pepper picked
from the vine with his teeth. Like he is hurting
himself for this.  This is the chorus he woke up

choking on. This is American dream:
to scream at the deaf. This is the most
romantic stroke. His whole left side is numb,

just nodding their heads.

- Sierra DeMulder