more poems

• b-side helvetica poems / fifty more helvetica poems not included in the main book. some were excluded for thematic reasons (not from my msn history), some for other reasons
• i am like october when i am dead / my 2010 chapbook, free online. includes 15 short poems in plain text

remixes + fan art

• pre-release remix / twenty-four reader-submitted pics of my helvetica poems in real life
• jpegs by ben brooks, nick, michael inscoe, and craig rathgeber
• remix poems by becky lang
• guerilla distribution by david sorensen + matt margo
• fan fiction by joseph ernest harper (+ part 2)

videos

• trailer 1 / my book trailer that says nothing about the book. includes video of me sitting in a lawn chair (2009) and performing in a backstreet boys cover
• trailer 2 / a video of me letter-spacing my helvetica poems in indesign (i’m actually using the wrong setting to do this). music by daughters and phil collins
• me reading many of the poems /  from a cool dogs reading in dekalb illinois, march 2011. my most energetic reading yet
• me reading 15 of the poems / from the ear eater reading series in chicago, september 2010; video courtesy of tao lin

interviews + reviews

• review/interview at htmlgiant / “[The poems] express affection in a direct way, a way that maybe exists in real life and in memories more than it typically does in poetry”
• interview with noah cicero / “anything written in a bathroom stall will probably have just as many readers as an average literary journal, maybe more if it’s a high-traffic bathroom”
• review/interview in the link / “i try to do exactly what i like, and over time i notice things i was subconsciously doing because i considered myself a poet, then i try to stop doing them.”
• review/blurb on it’s nice that / “an affecting, (sometimes) personal comment on what it means to be (a) in a relationship, (b) of an age increasingly reliant on internet communication, and (c) generally alive today.”
• review by brett gallagher / “steve’s bring smile to face feel movementing of life within tired november limbs wavering fill with thots yes this are why we alive why we reader and love one another”
• review by beach sloth / “His work appears to be obsessed with the consumption of vast amounts of TV, irony, and care for others.”
• review by poncho peligroso / “Steve Roggenbuck’s work has dramatically changed the way I think about poetry over the past few months.”
• review by jess dutschmann / “Steve seems to have an eye toward advertising, as evidenced by the first poem in the book. These are poem slogans. They are great ideas for songs”
• review/interview by andrew worthington / “Is this poetry?  It doesn’t really matter.  It tests the readers’ ability to just enjoy and not have to classify anything.”
• discussion by justin carter / “this book kinda made me rethink what ‘poetry’ is for a few days after I read it.”
• blurb/review by james schiller / “Poems the size of a Paxil tablet and smart-assing towards a new dadaism”
• link/discussion by jordan pennington / “I haven’t made my way through all of them yet, so I don’t feel like I have any really profound insight”
• blurb/link by the room 22 / “reading all poems in a single sitting has a kind, rewarding, soothing effect on the brain, like a bubble bath”
• spanish review by jacob steinberg / (via google translate) “I am determined: the ñ is my boyfriend.”
• tweets by andrew edminister / “I wish I could express in 140 characters how incredibly terrible your ‘poems’ are”
• discussion at yes yes books / “Roggenbuck’s poems … are dominated by lazy adaptations of common speech.”
• discussion by grant leuning / “Roggenbuck projects a beaming, sweet openness and self-confidence”
• discussion at the new york observer / “Mr. Roggenbuck mentioned that he often prints out Twitter users’ entire histories to read on the train”
• discussion at the poetry foundation / “[Roggenbuck] is probably familiar with the ‘no more rockstars’ notion that as culture continues to fragment, pursuing niche audiences is far easier and more rewarding”
• giveaway at midnight black (deadline past) + contest by let people poems with DHFF.COM as prize

please e-mail me if i forgot to link your review, fan art, or other content; i intend to post it all: steveroggenbuck [at] gmail.com

thanks so much everyone