Author Archives: Kathleen
Truly, a Superior Lake
This is my first ever view of Lake Superior, which I have wanted to see ever since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by way of Gordon Lightfoot called the Great Lake they Call Gitche Gumee to my attention:
It’s sort of impossible to capture the mind-blowing vastness, but going out into it on a boat can help:
Even then, [...]
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Rely on fate.
Here are a couple of poems called “The Rules” and “Famous Last Words” by EG and me that appeared recently in the Southern Winter issue of Otoliths. They’re in Australia, you see.
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Rich Uncle Pennybags…
…is the name of this gentleman…
…and over on the Andrew’s Book Club site, Andrew asks Rose Metal Press what we would do if the good Mr. Pennybags suddenly gifted a million or two dollars to our effort. You can read all about our dreamy projects here, but more importantly, be sure to read the August [...]
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Quartier Rouge…
…is a neighborhood around these Internet parts that you really should visit. They’re a quarterly literary video journal where you can read the poem to yourself while the author reads them to you. Watch the reels here.
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A Little East Coast Swing
In Illinois, it is traditional to keep one’s governors in prison, whereas in New York, it is traditional to keep one’s governors on an island, an island you can get to by the Governors Island Ferry…
Strangely, we did not run into any governors while we were on the island, but we did see lots [...]
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Fan-worthy
My copy of Betty Superman by Tiff Holland, the latest chapbook from Rose Metal Press, showed up in the mailbox the other day, and the collection’s so hot, I had to photograph it in front of a fan:
You can order your own slice of the hotness here. Add to cart!
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It’s Alive!
The 7th Annual Printers Ball is this Friday, July 29 from 6 pm to 11 pm at The Ludington Building at 1104 S Wabash Ave. in Chicago. Rose Metal Press and approximately a gazillion other literary organizations will be there. Will you?
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When people demand poems…
…some of the subjects they demand the poems be written on include:
Thanks to everyone yesterday at Wicker Park Fest who commissioned a poem (we wrote over 40 in 7 hours!) and donated to 826 CHI and Rose Metal Press, and to the Wicker Park Chamber of Commerce for letting us share their booth. Thanks also [...]
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Poems While You Wait…
like this one:
O, Wicker Park Fest,
what souvenir should I take home?
A hangover? A corduroy hipster vest?
Or an original poem?
…will be available this Saturday, July 23rd from 2:00 to 5:00 pm and 6:00 to 9:00 pm at Wicker Park Fest. Dave Landsberger and I will be at the Chamber of Commerce Booth on Milwaukee Avenue, between Damen [...]
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The finest house that drug money ever built…