Monthly Archives: January 2011

If the predicted Midwestern Snowmageddon…

By Kathleen | Published: January 31, 2011
…doesn’t dash all my travel hopes and dreams–and yours–this Wednesday, then I hope  to see you at the AWP Conference in Washington, DC, especially at the following locations and events: The Rose Metal Press Table at slot A4 of the Book Fair, particularly on Friday, February 4 at 10:30 am when Adam Golaski will be signing copies of Color [...]
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Aspects of Robinson…

By Kathleen | Published: January 24, 2011
…is the title of one of Weldon Kees’ four Robinson poems, which you can read here. But it’s also the title of a new book, Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, edited by Christopher Buckley and published by Backwaters Press. I have a poem and a brief essay in it, as do lots of [...]
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Acrostic

By Kathleen | Published: January 17, 2011
Elisa Gabbert and I have one in the January 2011 issue of Ghost Ocean Magazine, which you can read here. The title of the poem is “A Bear with a Severe Case of Mange,” but if you read the first letter of each line, you can discover what it’s “really about.” A hint:
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Pimp my poem.

By Kathleen | Published: January 12, 2011
Back in “the day,” patrons of Chicago’s high-class brothel the Everleigh Club could ask the sporting girls for recitations of such poetry standards as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Moonlight,”  and lots of that era’s literary superstars–Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, George Ade, Edgar Lee Masters, et al.—paid visits to the Club. These days, you can’t visit the Everleigh [...]
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Another Chicago Issue

By Kathleen | Published: January 8, 2011
The first volume of ACM’s two Chicago issues is off the presses, and it’s so hot, it’s getting profiled in the Chicago Tribune. It looks like this… …but if you’re in the area and want to see it in person, you should come to the release party at the Stop Smiling Storefront on Friday, January [...]
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Super Arrow flies true.

By Kathleen | Published: January 1, 2011
Hello, and welcome to my first blog post of 2011. To get this party started right, here’s a link to the latest issue of the online literary magazine Super Arrow. Elisa and I have a couple of collaborations included in their TOGETHER NOW folio. Happy New Year everyone, and thanks to Amanda Goldblatt for the [...]
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