Jim Trainer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

In Uncategorized on May 30, 2023 at 1:15 pm
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

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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.

NOW WE BEGIN THE PRACTICE OF YOGA

In Uncategorized on April 25, 2023 at 10:28 am

After my first yoga class I felt comfortable in my own skin. It was a feeling that had eluded me for over 20 years. I achieved my 200-hour RYA certification under the guidance of Gioconda Parker in 2012. I taught privately, and in corporate environments throughout the city, and was happy to maintain an ancillary yoga-teaching career and daily practice. But now I am called back to Yoga as I was called to it in that first class.

Familiar mental health challenges, and physical health concerns of middle age, are prompting me to lead a more mindful and spiritual life. The spiritual practice of Yoga is in fact physical. The goal of Yoga, despite its external appearance and fashion in the western world, is to be able to sit in meditation.

I’m happy to offer classes led on a monthly-membership level. Membership includes the option for day or evening classes, discounted one-on-one sessions, access to the virtual class library, newsletters, check-ins and invites to Yoga-related events.

These are all-levels classes focusing on the basic building blocks and poses of a Yoga flow, and your breath.

Click to enroll, fill out this form for more information and reach out to me anytime.

Join us.

JOIN US

In Uncategorized on March 21, 2023 at 10:13 am

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self by means of the Self, an aspirant knows the joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that abiding joy beyond the senses, revealed in the still mind, they never swerve from the eternal truth. They desire nothing else and cannot be shaken by the heaviest burden of sorrow.
—The Bhagavad Gita

The goal of Yoga is to be able to sit in meditation. To take a moment, find a comfortable seat and breathe. The “peak” pose for this Darkling Yoga series is our throne. Our throne is whatever seated pose we can comfortably maintain, held by our alignment, to sit in and breathe with ease. Yoga is simply this. It is not the crazy ways we bend our bodies or anything glamorous or based on reward.  The reward is within you, Yogi.

Join us. 

For tonight’s class you’ll need enough blocks to support you in siddhasana (or a comfortable, seated pose), a strap if you have one and a Yoga mat.  A bolster is a great way to find your comfortable, seated pose but a thick, hard pillow will do.  If you don’t have blocks, have some thick books on hand to place under your knees.  Wear stretchy or loose-fitting clothing (loose enough to adjust but not so loose they’re in the way).  And water!  

Join us, online, tonight for Darkling Yoga. To enroll, please go here. For more information fill out this form.

𝑆𝑈𝐵𝑆𝐶𝑅𝐼𝐵𝐸 𝑇𝑂 𝐽𝐼𝑀 𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑁𝐸𝑅’𝑆 𝑃𝑂𝐸𝑀 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 WEEK ON SUBSTACK

𝑆𝑇𝑅𝐼𝐷𝐸, 𝐽𝐼𝑀 𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑁𝐸𝑅’𝑆 8𝑇𝐻 𝐹𝑈𝐿𝐿-𝐿𝐸𝑁𝐺𝑇𝐻 𝐶𝑂𝐿𝐿𝐸𝐶𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁 𝑂𝐹 𝑃𝑂𝐸𝑇𝑅𝑌, 𝑁𝑂𝑊 𝐴𝑉𝐴𝐼𝐿𝐴𝐵𝐿𝐸 𝐴𝑇 𝐽𝐼𝑀𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑁𝐸𝑅.𝑁𝐸𝑇

𝑆𝑈𝑃𝑃𝑂𝑅𝑇 𝐽𝐼𝑀 𝑇𝑅𝐴𝐼𝑁𝐸𝑅’𝑆 𝑃𝐸𝑅𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐴𝐿 𝐽𝑂𝑈𝑅𝑁𝐴𝐿𝐼𝑆𝑀 𝑊𝐼𝑇𝐻 𝐴𝐶𝐶𝐸𝑆𝑆 𝑇𝑂 𝐿𝐼𝑉𝐸 𝑅𝐸𝐴𝐷𝐼𝑁𝐺𝑆 𝑂𝐹 𝑃𝑂𝐸𝑇𝑅𝑌 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝑆𝑂𝑁𝐺𝑆, 2 𝑃𝑂𝐸𝑀𝑆 𝐴 𝑀𝑂𝑁𝑇𝐻, 𝐿𝐸𝑇𝑇𝐸𝑅𝑆 𝐴𝑁𝐷 𝐴 𝑊𝐸𝐸𝐾𝐿𝑌 𝐶𝑂𝐿𝑈𝑀𝑁