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The Pine Tree State…
…aka Maine is where you reside during the residencies of the Stonecoast Low Residency MFA program, and it’s beautiful. See?The workshops, like the poetry one I was there to lead, take place in the Stone House, where the rooms all have evocative names, like this one, The Wolf’s Den Porch. Though not all the rooms have shag [...]
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Doors = opened.
Many things that I have written about poetry have gone live on the ol’ Internet this week, including:
a) a multi-media extravaganza about Leigh Stein’s Poets & Puppets project over on Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog
b) a glowing review of Julia Story’s prose poetry book (except for the perplexing intro by Dan Chiasson) Post Moxie [...]
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Elves and girls…
…live and nude are the subject of a joint review of Live Nude Elf by Nerve.com sex columnist Reverend Jen and Live Nude Girl by me in the Colorado Review. Thanks to Aaron Kimmel for the close readings and the thoughtful comparings and contrastings.
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B-Sides & Rarities
Well, maybe not so much with the B-Sides, but definitely with the rarities. Or at least one rarity in the form of: yesterday I read in the Orange Alert Reading Series with this guy…
…Martin Seay, aka my spouse-person. He’s a fantastic writer, but uncommon is the occasion when he can be spotted performing his [...]
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Hear, see, feel, smell, etc…
That is what people at the Green Lantern last night turned up to do FC2 authors, Big Other contributors, and others. The super-fantastic line-up included, in alphabetical order, A.D. Jameson:
…Jac Jemc…
…the ever-sparkly Tim Jones-Yelvington…
…Cris Mazza……me…
…Davis Schneiderman…
…and last but not least, Rob Stephenson:
Thanks to A.D. and Davis for organizing, and Tim for promoting, and Green [...]
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The Great Printers Row Lit Fest of Oh-Ten
This past weekend was Printers Row here in Chicago, and I got to do a panel called “Telling Our Stories” with Nona Willis “Girldrive” Aronowitz, Lee “Unfinished Business” Kravitz, and Pamela “Three Wishes” Ferdinand…. ….moderated by Dawn Turner Trice of the Chicago Tribune: The organizers were great, and even put all of our names [...]
Friend, you stand on sacred ground.
This is a printing office! Crossroads of civilization… …refuge of all the arts: Specifically, it’s the Museum of Printing in North Andover, Massachusetts where Abby Beckel, Rebecca Sareceno, and I… …spent last Thursday and Friday letterpressing hundreds of covers for Mary Hamilton’s chapbook We know what we are, forthcoming in July from [...]
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Don’t get dumber over summer.
Michael Gushue includes That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness by Elisa Gabbert and me in his extensive summer reading list over at the No Tell Motel blog. Thanks, Michael. We salute you back!
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Round up. Round-up. Roundup.
The more you write that word, the weirder it looks, but here’s a brief one about the mini-East Coast book tour I just got back from. Thursday night, I read in the In the Flesh Series in Manhattan, hosted by the lovely Rachel Kramer Bussel…
…who will be ending the series in December of this [...]
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The KMSU Weekly Reader…