Last August, I talked to Joe Young about his blogs, his striking metaphors, his venture into collaborations with visual artists, and more. The full interview is here. What has Joe been up to since then? Here’s the scoop, in his very own words.

Joe says:

Wow, it’s been a year since I talked to you! And what a great year! I see how last year I spoke about my blog, very small dogs (www.verysmalldogs.blogspot.com), which is still up and running. My latest project on that blog are my Art Dogs, in which I take works from various Baltimore visual artists and write microfictions inspired by them.

I also mentioned a project I had in development with artist Christine Sajecki (www.csajecki.com). That became a multimedia art show entitled Deep Falls, which included Christine’s paintings, my microfictions, and an animated video that featured her work, mine, and music by local musicians Caleb Stine (www.calebstine.com) and Nick Sjostrom. We had an opening reception at Antreasian Gallery (www.antreasiangallery.com) here in Baltimore that was really great. Excerpts from the show were published recently in Jen Michalski’s magazine, JMWW (jmww.150m.com).

This November, I’ll be collaborating with the band Red Sammy (www.redsammy.com). There will be alternating readings of my work and playing of their songs at Baltimore’s Theatre Project.

Another fantastic local venture that’s been getting some great national exposure is Adam Robinson’s Publishing Genius (www.publishinggenius.com). In addition to a broadside that featured work by me and art by Kathy Fahey ,Adam’s been doing all sorts of incredible things, publishing such great writers as Blake Butler and Michael Kimball.

I’ve also had the opportunity to write for the local art blog BmoreArt (http://bmoreart.blogspot.com) and the cultural e-zine Splice Today (www.splicetoday.com).