Poetry. Jim Behrle is a homonym for Dinty Moore, a territory sound in Boston to the core. That passing local of time and times whose places in mind serve as pillar and post-it. Just watch. Fresh hash marks for the urban georgic and the crisp apple in apprehending. Jim Behrle goes to people, places, and things like an aphrodisiac to a hanged man, conflating ego with object in 'the hour we give back to the sun'--Michael Gizzi.

City Point

Literature & Fiction

Behrle, Jim

Poetry

Pressed Wafer Press

Poetry. Published to coincide with the poets' reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 2002, the back-to-back chapbook presents exciting work from two remarkable young poets. Fred Moten's poems spark with flavor, fierce downward twists of vibe and jive. His pieces unite personal and the projective into a unique, irresistible lilt that packs quiet punch. Jim Behrle's repetition and scattered imagery creates chain reactions on the page. Boston looms large as backdrop and inheritance, and in Behrle's poems connections are made from sliced-up language and dropped-off metaphor.Together in this chapbook, these poets claim their own space and their work is amplified by the presence of the other.

Poems (Behrle/Moten)

Moten, Fred

Poetry. Jim Behrle "has written a great book of poetry. . .Perhaps it's more like souvenirs from this megalomaniacal persona's adventures in mass culture. . .It's a cliche to talk about how in collage there is a tension between the original context of the collaged materials and the art piece. But I think Jimmy uses that tension incredibly well. It's not so much a tension between an original context and a poem as between a total commodity culture and a persona adrift in that culture - the persona is to such a large extent created by this culture (the sexual bragging, the stalking, the masturbating) but the persona still has enough autonomy to muck things up"-Johannes Goransson, coeditor of Action Books. Jim Behrle's poems have appeared most recently in Cannibal and The Tiny. Behrle lives in Brooklyn, NY.

She's My Best Friend

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless step aerobics classes in Buenos Aires, faking a terrible British accent in London, and navigating a nude spa in Stockholm. About loneliness, connection, and sunburn. And about daring ourselves to be brave and embracing being scared.
These stories are tied together by relationships: making them, losing them, how we behave in their absence. How we thrive when we’re far from home and falling in and out of love in all of the world’s beautiful places. 
This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book.

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin

Travel

Petersen, Anne Helen

Atik, Chiara

Wortham, Jenna

Bustillos, Maria

Frye, Carrie

Cliffe, Nicole

Travel Writing

Lake Union Publishing

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