Janaka Stucky for Boston's Best Poet

The Boston Phoenix, which I think has become a little bit lame in its dotage, has it's annual best-of competition happening right now. And wouldn't you know it, they have a "Best Poet" category. Which is a great thing — but the nominations are Pinsky, Glück, Bidart, Warren, Cornish. Not "bad" poets per se; just, you know, kind of lame choices. I mean, can we get somebody not collecting Social Security up in here? Is that too much to ask? Can we shake this sh¡t up a little bit? Can we blow some mºther fu¢king minds?

WHY YES, WE CAN
Today, and every day (because everyone can vote once a day), you should vote for poet and Black Ocean publisher Janaka Stucky: the baddest mºther fu¢ker since Leroy Brown. Janaka Stucky is "practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, hairpins, & a history of tentacles. Other passions include whiskey and pugilism." He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome. His latest chapbook, Your Name Is The Only Freedom, is now available from Brave Men Press. His poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT. You can also join the "Vote for Janaka Stucky" group on Facebook. Do it because this matters so little, there is no point in not doing it.

Now you've got one question to answer for yourself, monkey: do you dance for the man?