So if you've been following along you know that Connor Dooley and I recently went on a Massachussetts tour and there were a lot of people have a lot of nice things to say with beaming faces, here's what Steve Subrizi had to say about us, he also happens to be one of our closest friends - go figure:

"These two guys [Ian Khadan and Connor Dooley] did a double-feature at Cantab last night, and they put on a really good show. It wasn't "rag-tag"; it was "rough-and-tumble." They managed to charm the audience without wasting time with too much banter. You could just tell how much they enjoyed performing together, and how much they enjoyed performing for our venue. I said on the mic, and it proved very true, that Ian and Connor don't play "good cop/bad cop," they play "suckerpunch cop/kick-to-the-gut cop." They brought a little bit of the funny and a lot of the heartache, and now they're touring the country, and anyone who doesn't see them should feel very sorry for missing the chance."

With that, I give you a snippet of one of the bad reviews that I'm aware of from our venture, this review from Samantha Shokin came after our feature performance at Brandeis University:

"The featured slam performers at the Brandeis Open Mic Series, or B.O.M.S. on Tuesday night were certainly entertaining. The duo consisted of long-time slammers Ian Khadan and Connor Dooley, both hailing from New Jersey. Dooley’s style was heavily satirical. In most of his pieces, however, I either failed to see the humor or always managed to miss the punch line. [...] The other half of the duo, Ian Khadan, had a style that was quintessentially slam; that is to say, it sounded a lot like other stuff I’d heard countless times before. So he’s either doing something right or the exact opposite. I was overwhelmed by his imagery; I never knew there could be such a thing as “overabundance of metaphors,” but his flowery language was so profound that I ended up not having a clue what he was talking about half the time."

You can read the rest of this review here.

Needless to say, tour was a blast, and clearly we were received differently by everyone we performed for but we'd like to think for the most part that we did an exceptional job for all of our feature performances on the tour.

So I'm a little late on this but here's the latest on where my poetry's being published. Check out Metamorphosis which was recently featured by SUSS Literary Journal, they also host a gossip section and many many other incredible contemporary poets. I am very excited and honored to be a part of their canon.

I've been slacking on the updating but I'll be getting you all up to speed on everything else that's been going on, including the recent Indiefeed Showcase at the Urbana Poetry Club, my recent tour with Connor Dooley, and the Super Best Friends Of Poetry.