Valley of the Wrong

new animation soon at http://thewrong.org/following/thewrong.org/Valley-of-the-Wrong

2 men in a space, #maya #4k

Praise for Camouflage Country

happy to have blurbed my 1st book, happier still that it was camouflage country by Mel Bosworth and Ryan Ridge with illustrations by Jacob Heustis, from Queen's Ferry press. 

CAMOUFLAGE COUNTRY

"Swallow this book like it’s the last cold Michelob Ultra. Read it, do a little dance, then take it out back and shoot it. Take down this book like it’s the last thing you will ever do in this life, because I’m telling you, it most likely will be. Be with this book, and I mean be with it. Is it poetry? Is it prose? Who the hell cares. Bosworth and Ridge are great literary beasts by themselves, to be read often and carefully. Together they have become one wild fucking animal. These are the real bits of us, the hidden bits and the exposed, laid out in one stunning sentence after another. I’ll always keep Camouflage Country close by­--I cried laughing, I have never read anything like it." --Ryan MacDonald, author of The Observable Characteristics of Organisms 

“Ranging from short to super-duper short, the prose-poetic stories in Ryan Ridge’s and Mel Bosworth’s Camouflage Country zig and zag, fake and fade, keeping the reader guessing on every page, and the illustrations by Jacob Heustis are every bit as funny and surprising as the words they accompany. It’s a pinball machine of a book, full of bounce and light and crazy ricochets: sentences start, you don’t know where they’ll end up, and this dynamic unpredictability is what gives this collection its life and its victory.”--Kathleen Rooney, author of O, Democracy!

"Twenty things I want to say about Ryan Ridge and Mel Bosworth: 1) Did Poetry write these men into being? 2) Poetry was in a weird mood. 3) They’re good, you should know. 4) Like really, really good. 5) Repeat winners of Sentence of the Year. 6) Where do they get off? 7) Where do they get on, for that matter? 8) Can they show otherwriters the place? 9) Scratch that last question 10) What I was meaning to say: there should be laws against these men. 11) Or at least a temporary injunction. 12) It’s like, Hold on! 13) We need to catch our breaths! 14) We need to unpretzel our minds! 15) Breath nets. 16) Mind…. 17) What? 18) Look what you’ve done to me here. 19) Just look.20) See what I mean?"—Scott Garson, author of Is that You, John Wayne?

© RIDGE & BOSWORTH 2015 

Philadelphia Stories review of The Observable Characteristics of Organisms

pleased to have this great review by Garen Sahagian 
"...From page to page, like pulling unmarked drawers in an oddities shop, you’ll find fresh insights on the tiny moments of human existence, as the book is less interested in tragedy than the methods we use to cope with it..."

pink cop car on fire

for Anne Boyer and all of it

moves

deflatable

Best BFF Book Tour ever

Thanks to all our hosts, Mellowpages Library, Kimberly Hennessy and Nick Partridge, Michelle Taransky-Kleiman and Jeff Kleiman, biggest love to Zach Savich and Hilary Plum, Dan Brady of Barrelhouse Books and Simone Kearny. And thanks to all the incredible writers who joined us along the way (pictured below with links to their amazing books). And here also, one of the videos I projected on the tour: 

Retirement is a Flamingo Pond. 

 Rachel B. Glaser

 Emily Pettit

 Stella Corso

 Seth Landman

 Christy Crutchfield

 Jordan Stempleman

and myself

BFF Book Tour! Spring Break 2015

Ryan MacDonald: The Observable Characteristics of Organisms, 2014 FC2

Jordan Stempleman: Wallop, 2015 Magic Helicopter Press

Mar 13: Mellow Pages, with Emily Pettit and Rachel B Glaser, 56 Bogart St. 1S Brooklyn, New York 11206

Mar 15: BarrelHouse Books, Washington DC

Mar 16: Simone Kearney reading series, Baltimore, MD

Mar 17: Amherst Books, with Stella Corso, Christy Crutchfield and Seth Landman, Amherst Books, Amherst, MA

quick character animating for whatev

TNBBC Review

New review of TOCO up at TNBBC y'all, thanks for reading

and then I read the story Brass Tacks for TNBBC's audio series

Song 1142

Song 1142:

poem: Jordan Stempleman

animation: Ryan MacDonald

I have been interviewed at the Small Press Book Review by the great Mel Bosworth.

"Ryan MacDonald wrote a book called The Observable Characteristics of Organisms. Ryan MacDonald has a fine beard. Ryan MacDonald moves, like you, through the wonder and whimsy of this modern world. Such lucky beasts are we! Recently I connected with Ryan to learn about his book, how the poet Peter Gizzi wiggles, and the marvel of “It”."