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Reviews and interviews, I mean. The reviews are of For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs in the Chicago Tribune, here–thanks, Lynna Williams!–and of That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness for Bitch here–thanks Julia Bloch!
The interview is of Elizabeth Crane in Redivider here–thanks Elizabeth Crane!
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Refrigerator is the perfect ending to any haiku.
That is one of many things learned yesterday at the Book Cellar’s Poetry Night in honor of April being National Poetry Month. Suzy had the audience jointly compose two haiku, just to make sure everyone was warmed up before the show began. The second one went: “Between my shoulders/stardust lingers in my mind/Refrigerator.” See? Perfect.
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I’ve got some notes…
….about the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin up on the Poetry Foundation website. See?
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The lonesome crowded West
“I’ve come to realize that as much as I want my heroes to know about me, it’s more important for my peers to know about me.” That is what my peer Dan Boehl said while we were sitting in a ballroom at the AWP Conference in Denver waiting for my hero Dave Hickey’s lecture to start. [...]
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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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It could be Robinson calling…