antipoetry in lawrence, ks

every now & again i really need a poetic pick me up.  one that never fails me is the poet/antipoet of lawrence, ks jim mccrary.  i've written lots & lots about mccrary.  he is one of my poet teachers even if he may scoff at me for saying so.  he taught me to go my own way.  DIY is mccrary's motto, ethos, & practice long before it was cool.  which satisfies my own punk rock mien.  why do i call him an antipoet?  for one reason his minimalist poetry is its own sound.  it seems simple on first read.  but no.  plus his measures of composition as well as his sense of humor about the silliness of our self-important contemporary poetic landscape details a seriousness of his poetic spirit with an ethos of anarchic wit.  he did call his once-upon-a-time blog RESISTING POETRY.  so today, when i needed a refreshing hit of antipoetry i searched on the interwebs for some jim mccrary.  here is a recent interview of jim with the poet michael sikkema.  here is a profile of the antipoet from 2009.  &, here because we live in a varied & vast digital world, is a podcast from 2017 of jim mccrary.  i've not linked to or quoted any of jim's poems for they are readily available via a google search.  i think these interviews & profiles do what they do best.  give us a bit of the fantastic anitpoetic spirit who made lawrence, ks his home.  & as sure as shit made this antipoetic spirit in east sac, ca very fucking happy.