Author Archives: Kathleen
Places to find me and RMP at AWP.
The Rose Metal Press table at the Book Fair, the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry panel on Thursday morning at 9:00, the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction panel on Friday morning at 10:30, the ”Exploitation, Empowerment, and Everything in Between: Women on Writing Sex” panel on Friday afternoon [...]
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The Walter Winchell of the Southern suburbs?
Probably not. But still, here is my first column for the Southtown Star. It is about unemployment and how the invisible hand of the marketplace appears to be giving my generation the finger. You can read and comment on it here.
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narrative (dis)continuities….
…prose experiments by younger american writers is now available as a free e-book from Recycled Karma Press. Elisa Gabbert and I have a couple of prose poems in there, as do William Allegrezza, Nick Demske, Kate Durbin, Adam Fieled, Brandi Homan, Becca Klaver, B.J. Love, Daniela Olszewska, and Kim Gek Lin Short. Thanks to Kristina [...]
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Switchback’s house = warmed.
Last night, awesome Chicago-based feminist poetry publisher Switchback Books held a party to inaugurate their shiny new space in the Fulton Street Collective. Thanks to Whitney Holmes, there was a tower of red velvet cupcakes……and thanks to Dolly Lemke and Sarah Carson, many copies of poetry books (including Oneiromance, second from the right) were sold: Switchback’s [...]
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Dirty thirty
Today is my birthday, and so, for no other reason, really, than that everyone keeps telling me your thirties are when you suddenly turn super-confident and can just really “go for it” and do what you want, here are some links to some loosely me-affiliated things from around the old Internet, including:
An interview about the [...]
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Artifice magazine’s lofty launch party…
….last night at Loft 3A…
…was packed…
…packed…
…packed with people…
…all there to attend the most highly anticipated literary event of the year to date, the Chicago launch of Artifice magazine, hosted by the lovely and amazing Tadd Adcox…
…and Rebekah Silverman…
…and read at by the sparkly Tim Jones-Yelvington…
…the Marcel-assisted Christopher Phelps….…the cyborgian Susan Slaviero…
…the fresh-from-Maine Jefferson Navicky……the [...]
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Out among the Fremdly faces
This morning, I got to read and talk to these students at Fremd High School in Palatine, IL…
…and these students…
…and these students:
Fremd puts on an amazing program annually known as Writers Week. You can learn a lot more about it here, but suffice to say, it’s a seriously awesome event. Before I went on [...]
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The most beautiful words in the English language are Book Cellar.
Wait. No. They’re “cellar door.” Still, the Book Cellar’s Local Author night yesterday really was beautiful. After reading from our respective books, Melanie “Alice I Have Been” Benjamin, Cristina “The World in Half” Henriquez, and I provided A’s to the audience’s Q’s about scandals, pedophilia, and dramatic 400-page novel rewrites:
The evening was emceed by Brandon Will [...]
Shelf Awareness…
…reports that For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs is one of the bestselling paperback nonfiction titles in and near Chicago during the week ending January 24th. Check it out–I’m right there below the book that “redo[es] the world’s most beloved literary classics for the Status Update generation” and above the one that [...]
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The lonesome crowded West