Mark Leidner is funny – in the real and important sense.  I guess I haven’t checked in on his blog enough recently, because I went on earlier this week and it’s full of these amazing animations of twee-looking anime characters “reading” his poems in places like driveways and Thunderdome-looking arenas. (He made them using Xtranormal, and you can too!)  This is the coolest thing I’ve seen on a blog in a long time.  Go over and watch every one of his animations.

Mark Leidner leaves his home early in the morning to give a reading

Then go buy his chapbook The Night of 1,000 Murders from Factory Hollow.  It’s funny like Mark.

And then go read his poems in the new Action,Yes.