Justin Sirois

Justin Sirois is founder and creative director of Narrow House Recordings (www.narrowhouserecordings.com). His writing has appeared in Drill, Poets Against the War, Newtopia Magazine, Anomaly, The DC Poetry Anthology (forthcoming) and several chapbooks by New Lights Press. His series of photos taken in Las Vegas on the first anniversary of 9-11 can be seen on Trifecta Press' website and in the liner notes of his CD. Justin uses his experiences as a social security employee and night club promoter in his writing about politics, film, dinosaurs, and the plight of late capitalism. "Justin’s work has also been selected for publication in the new LINK 9 issue that will be available at the Baltimore Book Festival.” He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

escalade the pain away


on this independence day weekend we feel alien, no bloody chest bursting births or illegal work permits, just out of the natural orchard a bit & bitten by quiet mosquitoes too quick with their cellulose quills. They, I mean We, will fuck to forget fearful ordainments blessed down from above, sweat out normal ornamentals that porn voting hordes & ring tone bored grads. We’re not sure why fireworks are so freakish or why everyone seems to be necking at the hinges of the state park. Dear Tom Cruse, what would Tom Cruise do? To whom it may concert, you’re knee high gym socks autograph the forest wall & that painted brick skirt needs to be hiked above your head so panting lights pinwheel your earlobe filaments & bottle rockets unbutton

america. On this pandemic day weekend there is nothing academic about pleasures patriotic or ambulance horizons, you cross your amps around hanging black cats & gently prolapse his bathysphere in colliding saliva, dive hard into tilled fabrics to fraternize digits with gully olives whose rude oil is crude against unshaved meters or motors rolling over. On blankets marmalade, escalade the pain away & grope dismantled ski lifts that spray pearly ropes of exactly

As I have no book released yet I have no reviews to offer. Narrow House has received praise from Ron Silliman in regarded to Rod Smith’s CD:  

"...at just under 71 minutes a full length recording with production values that would make an indie band weep with envy. Smith is the perfect poet for such a project, as he has the most active ear of any writer of his generation & he’s a great – if decidedly deadpan – reader of his own work. Listening to this recording feels like it takes 20 minutes & one is totally engrossed the entire time, as Smith demonstrates a range of affect far wider than I’ve heard from him before..."

Source: http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/

and the Women in the Avant Garde CD made it on the Third Factory Notes to Poetry best of list 2004, link = http://www.thirdfactory.net/attentionspan2004.html