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Momus says…
…that on the web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people. There were way more than fifteen people…
….at the DePaul Poets reading at the DePaul Art Museum last night…
…and perhaps by posting their pictures here, their internet fame will grow and grow. Dan Stolar emceed the event…
…and Chris Green went first, reading a poem about [...]
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Radio On!
DePaul University has an award-winning student radio station known as Radio DePaul. On Fridays, they broadcast a program called The DePaul Writers’ Series, and tomorrow, between 10 and 11 am, I’ll be on it to discuss For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs among other subjects. Tune in, won’t you?
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Rose Metal Press is thrilled to announce that judge Randall Brown selected the manuscript Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel as the winner of this year’s sixth annual short short chapbook contest. You can read about the terrific finalists and semi-finalists here.
Aaron does not, in fact, win a chicken dinner (that would be gross), but he [...]
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A mind of winter
If you live in or around Chicago, you might have noticed that it’s snowing here for the first time since last winter. Winter, as everyone knows, is the second best of all the seasons, so this fact in and of itself is nothing to fret about; however, the inclement conditions mean that this evening’s Poems [...]
Lucky Friday the 13th
Leigh Stein is coming to Chicago this Friday, January 13, to read from her debut novel, The Fallback Plan, at Women & Children First, and I’ll be reading with her. You should watch her book trailer here, and then this panda photograph will begin to make sense. You should also come to the reading at [...]
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Fame is brilliant?
Do you believe in New Year’s Resolutions? Was one of them to go to more reading series? Might I suggest the P. Fanatics Reading Series hosted by Mason Johnson at Cole’s Bar in Logan Square:
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Status updates from the deep
The latest issue of Arsenic Lobster has gone live, just in time for the holidays. Take a break from wrapping/unwrapping your presents and contemplating your New Year’s Resolutions and read some poems by Kate Greenstreet, Arielle Greenberg Bywater, and Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska among others, including EG and me.
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Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon.
Ever since I read “The Idea of Order at Key West” by Wallace Stevens, I’ve wanted to visit Key West. This desire only increased when I read later that Stevens a) quarreled drunkenly there with Robert Frost in February of 1935, and b) broke his hand there on Ernest Hemingway’s jaw in 1936. Thus, this [...]
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The tax year…
…is almost over. Donations to Rose Metal Press are tax deductible, and our 2012 subscription and support drive is now under way. Think about it.
Then, head over here and contribute; any and all amounts are helpful and welcome. Also? If you partner with us, the “current progress toward our goal” number will go up. It’s [...]
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