Media Kit
O Spam, Poams: Rob Read's new book of poems, which is a collection of the very best of the first two years of Daily Treated Spam, is available exclusively online from Apollinaire's Bookshoppe.
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519-666-0168
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Download a printable PDF of this media kit here.
Welcome to the O Spam, Poams and Daily Treated Spam Media Kit
News & Events:
June 2007 - Rob's way with words from the well of spam finds its way to Kevin Thurston's blog.
May 2007 - Daily Treated Spam makes an appearance in the remarkable Little Magazine.
April 2007 - Four of Rob's Daily Treated Spams are featured on the Rock Heals blog. Spam 1, Spam 2, Spam 3, Spam 4.
March 2007 - Rob celebrates his birthday by attending the Buffalo Small Press Fair, where he launches his new mini-book from Produce Press Spam Raper, Spam Diaper. Also launched is Maple Spits #4, a magazine put out periodically by Produce Press.
March 2007 - A smashing evening with Rob at the End of the Internet series in Toronto. Rob fends off a most obliging heckler with great aplomb and reads from the soon to be released mini-book Spam Raper, Spam Diaper.
March 2007 - Daily Treated Spam discussed in academic website on Canadian Computer Poetry by Shane Plante.
February 2007 - Several of Rob's poems are published in dynamic poetry magazine F-hole.
December 2006 - Bird Flu in Paris - Hilton that is. 'The Weekly Spam: Paris Hilton Has Bird Flu, a large scale canvas work of 'glitch' art by the Prize Budget for Boys based on some of Rob's Daily Treated Spam has its gallery debut this month in New York City.
December 2006 - Daily Treated Spam appear in French literary magazine Crashtest's No Log' issue.
December 2006 - A recording of Rob reading from O Spam, Poams and other work in Buffalo in February, 2006 is now available thanks to House Press.
November 2006 - An excerpt from Neologism, Rob's collaboration with Chris Fickling and AEM that adapts the Matrix series of films into an epic poem appears (appropriately enough) in Matrix Magazine's Fan Friction issue.
November 2006 - O Spam, Poams is reviewed (twice!) in issue #36 of filling Station. Reviews are by derek beaulieu (also appears here) and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
October 2006 - Some of Rob's non-spam poetry is featured in issue #20 of Carousel magazine.
October 2006 - Rob reads from O Spam, Poams and other work at the Test Reading Series in Toronto, Canada. The Test website features some recent selections (PDF) from Daily Treated Spam. You can also listen to a recording of the reading or the question and answer session with co-reader Souvankham Thammavongsa.
August 2006 - The talk Rob gave at the Speakeasy reading series in February, 2005 that initially convinced BookThug publisher Jay MillAr to publish O Spam, Poams, is printed in issue #34 of filling Station, which also features some some Daily Treated Spam.
June 2006 - An engrossing podcast of Rob reading from O Spam, Poams is featured on Paul Toth's Toth World.
May 2006 - from Descriptive Sketches, a chapbook of poetry Rob wrote while traveling in Europe is published by Laurel Reed Books. Contact the press to order copies: 206 Ellis Ave, Mt. Pleasant, Ontario, Canada, N0E 1K0 or contact them by email at alaric@rogers.com. Only 75 copies were produced, so order now.
April 2006 - The most talked about reading of the year! Rob reads with other BookThug authors Gregory Betts, Daniel f. Bradley, gustave morin, and Jay MillAr in Ottawa and Kingston, Canada. In Kingston the 'thugs' are joined by master small press publisher jwcurry, and in Kingston they are joined by intrepid writers Jeremy Mcleod and Paul Hegedus. The fireworks are still flying from this one folks!
April 2006 - The &Now Literary Festival at Lakeforest College, just north of Chicago is served some Daily Treated Spam as Rob reads alongside William H. Gass, gustave morin and mmcross.
April 2006 - Article on Daily Treated Spam by Kelly Wagner, Junk e-mail turned poetic captures audiences, appears in The Depaulia (Chicago)
April 2006 - O Spam, Poams reviewed by derek beaulieu, A new approach to poetics, in FFWD Weekly (Calgary, Canada).
March 2006 - Rob is interviewed by Sarah Campbell, and reads from O Spam, Poams on New York Public Radio show Spoken Arts, WBFO 88.7.
February 2006 - Rob appears at a blockbuster reading in Buffalo, NY with Kemeny Babineau and John Barlow as part of Just Buffalo’s Orbital Series. An article by Kevin Thurston appears in Buffalo art weekly Artvoice to promote the reading.
January 2006 - Rob reads from O Spam, Poams in Ottawa and Montreal, Canada, Buffalo, NY, and Philadephia, PA as part of Shift & Switch book launches. Other readers include: Jon Paul Fiorentino, Max Middle, Angela Rawlings, Mark Truscott, Matthew Hollett, Gregory Betts, Jill Hartman, Geoffrey Hlibchuk, Trevor Speller, and Janet Neigh.
December 2005 - O Spam, Poams reviewed on Ron Silliman's Blog. Silliman, a leading American poet and critic, says: Hopefully, the mass success of [O Spam, Poams] won’t cause Read to shut down what has become one of the favorite moments of my day [ie. reading the Daily Treated Spam].
December 2005 - Charlie Huisken, owner of world-famous bookstore This Ain't the Rosedale Library, lists O Spam, Poams in his Top Ten Books of 2005.
December 2005 - O Spam, Poams is reviewed by Kevin Thurston in Buffalo, NY weekly Artvoice.
November 2005 - Rob is featured in the poetry anthology Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry, and appears at the Toronto, Canada launch.
October 2005 - O Spam, Poams, a collection of Rob's Daily Treated Spam, is launched at Yammy the Cat in Toronto, Canada.
Rob Read
Author of O Spam, Poams
Weekdays: 416-736-2100 ext 40635
Evenings and Weekends: 416-651-5450
E-mail: readrobread@gmail.com
Website: www.dailytreatedspam.com
Rob is available for interviews about:
• Spam Poetry; found poetry; general views about poetry
• Avoiding Spam e-mail
• Why O Spam, Poams isn’t being sold in ‘big box’ mega-bookstores
• Prior publishing history and Read’s own publishing house Produce Press