Jim Trainer, Poet
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Jim Trainer
Phone: 512-203-6288
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
6/8/23
HEADLINES YOU CAN’T RUIN BOOK RELEASE AND TOUR KICKOFF-AN EVENING OF POETRY AND THE SPOKEN WORD WITH RICARDO ACEVEDO, AIMÉE MACKOVIC AND JIM TRAINER-ON JUNE 8 AT BATCH
Grassroots poets promote the sale of collections of their work with a ticketed event featuring readings and performances in Austin’s Manor Road neighborhood. Multidisciplinary artist and post-punk rocker Ricardo Acevedo will release MALO – Things You Can’t Ruin alongside professor and triple-organ transplant Aimée Mackovic, releasing Headlines, at Batch on June 8. Local poet and publisher Jim Trainer will host. The event will coincide as a sendoff for his east coast tour.
The reading will further Trainer’s efforts in building a supportive network that honors independent artists with ticketed events. The price of admission includes a copy of Headlines or $10 off of MALO – Things You Can’t Ruin and Trainer’s back titles and letter pressed broadsides of his poem “RECURRENT” (shared below).
“Is it so novel to sell tickets to a poetry reading?” Trainer wonders. “I came up in the 90s when going to a show meant you’d pay the door and buy merch from the act. It’s just what we did. So many great poets feature their work for free on social media and while I applaud their expression, it makes me sick thinking about the billionaires whose platforms benefit from their content.”
The event will take place at Manor Road’s eminent kolache and beer cafe, Batch (3220 Manor Road, 78723). The reading marks a return for Acevedo, releasing his first collection in 10 years, and for Mackovic, relocating back to Austin after recuperating on the west coast. The event will double as a tour kickoff for Jim Trainer, heading out for dates on the east coast.
Honor poetry and support the arts by celebrating the release of collections from veteran Austin poets at Batch on June 8 at 7P.M. CST.
For tickets:
https://www.jimtrainer.net/tickets
For more information:
Jim Trainer
512-203-6288
jamesmichaeltrainer@gmail.com
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Ricardo Acevedo came up reading at coffee houses and bookstores in southern California and in the New Wave and Art Punk scene of the 80s. He featured at Cafe Picaro, Club Commotion, Paradise Lounge, The Iguana, Beyond Baroque and Sacred Grounds before releasing his first chapbook ANY in 1992. Acevedo’s been published in numerous independent presses, and was included in the University of Texas Press’ Beats of Texas. His collection Sonambulo (DiverseCity Press) was set to choreography by Ellen Bartel and composer Graham Reynolds. MALO – Things You Can’t Ruin is out now through Incunabula Media.
Aimée Mackovic is a poet and professor of English currently living in the northern California mountains after a heart and liver transplant in 2019. Her work has appeared in Main Street Rag, Gravel, and Shark Reef, among others. She was the featured poet of Issue 9 of UCity Review. Her chapbooks include Potpourri and Dearly Beloved: The Prince Poems. A Sentenced Woman was released through Finishing Line Press in 2007. Love Junky, released through Lit City in October 2017, explores being female through the lenses of sister, daughter, lover, medical patient and friend. Mackovic is currently working on a medical memoir about her triple-organ transplant journey, to be published in 2023, when not traveloguing at aroundtheworldwithaimee.com. Headlines is out now through Dancing Girl Press.
Jim Trainer contributes to Substack, served as columnist for Into The Void and blogged at Going For the Throat for over a decade. Trainer publishes one letterpressed collection every year through Yellow Lark Press. STRIDE is his 8th. As a progenitor of Stand UpTragedy™ he performs regularly throughout the world.
Jim Trainer
512-203-6288
jamesmichaeltrainer@gmail.com
PHOTOS
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WRITING SAMPLE
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RECURRENT, a poem
bring your pain
soak it like ragsi
n kerosene
stand blade-thin
like a rudder in the laughing wind
whisper to the dead
stay buried or come along
drive along a speeding train
listening to Talking New York Blues and
smoking
run like a lost dog
through the wilds of your solitude
don’t do anything except acknowledge
a memory
keep 4 cards
1 face down
in your left pants pocket
at the party
don’t scowl
especially if she’s there
don’t drink or say too much
and get to bed before midnightwake at d
awn
drink strong coffee and cold water
feel regret
and loathing
and anger
breathe through it
get up
face the sad sun like a God.
Going for the Throat 