Author Archives: Kathleen
An Alluring Thursday
The UPS guy just came by with the November issue of Allure, and never have I been so excited to receive a copy of a women’s magazine in my life. Right there on page 110, across from an ad exhorting me to “restore” my “collagen” thereby smoothing “out the signs of aging”…
…is an essay that [...]
Hustle on over to Come All Ye Sinners…
…is the clever headline I came up with to promote this upcoming weekend’s two not-to-be-missed (according to me) Chicago literary events. First, this Friday, October 21st at 8:00 pm the Chicago Poetry Brothel–featuring special guest Prose Whore Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City–will take over historic Thalia Hall in Pilsen to provide [...]
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Timothy Grayson & Elliott Swinburn…
…are staying at our house. If their names sound like the epitome of English, that’s because they’re visiting from England, and they are here to spread poetry to the people of America, including these people, last night, at an event for Need for Speed in Uptown:
Original Poetry Whore Tim is in the picture (left) [...]
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Franki Elliott…
…is not Franki Elliott’s real name. In part because of her employer’s potentially negative and retaliatory reaction to her creative endeavors (a grotesquely unfair situation to which I can certainly relate), it’s the name she blogs and writes under, though, and it’s the name under which she–and Curbside Splendor–have published her first book, Piano Rats. [...]
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Occupy Chicago…
…is a thing that is happening……although because the demonstrations have not been covered nearly as much as they–and Occupy Wall Street, and all the Occupy movements–ought to be by various media outlets, I figured I should go down to the Federal Reserve and check it out for myself. So before I taught this afternoon at [...]
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Thy stars below in Frederick town!
Frederick, Maryland–where we went over the weekend for a very Rose Metal Press wedding– is so full of Civil War history that it’s almost impossible to walk down its quaint streets without tripping over, for example, the Barbara Fritchie House……home of the subject of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem “Barbara Frietchie,” which tells the rhyming [...]
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Where I’m blogging from…
…has windows on three sides and looks like this–dim, green–on rainy fall evenings:
You can’t necessarily know from the photo, but the place we just moved to is on the third and top floor so there’s nobody nobody nobody above us–high up and quiet, the best way to live.
Is it weird to quasi-review a book that you edited?
Maybe so, but I did it anyway for Molly Gaudry’s fabulous and reformatted The Lit Pub. You can read about the reason I think all five of the chapbooks in They Could No Longer Contain Themselves, released earlier this year by Rose Metal Press, go together here. Thanks, Molly.
And if you read that and then [...]
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Robinson Alone Provides the Image! Coming semi-soon!
I am thrilled and a half to announce that Robinson Alone Provides the Image–a novel-in-poems that I have been working on (on and off) for over a decade–has been accepted for publication. The collection, based on the life and work of Weldon Kees and his alter ego Robinson, will be published by Gold Wake Press, an [...]
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Issue 11…