The Kind Interwebs
Today, my poem “Performance” was featured on Verse Daily. It was a happy surprise! Thank you, Mysterious People In Charge of These Things.
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Today, my poem “Performance” was featured on Verse Daily. It was a happy surprise! Thank you, Mysterious People In Charge of These Things.
Read More The Kind InterwebsIn the wake of the Boston tragedy, the Poetry Foundation invited poets to upload recordings of poems for Boston on Record-a-Poem. I decided to record Stanley Plumly’s poem, “Grievers” (from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me).
Read More Poetry Foundation Record-a-Poem: Poems for BostonI came home to contributor copies of the The Writer’s Chronicle this evening. My article “‘Shine in that Vivid Isolation’: A Case Study of the Ghazal in the Contemporary American Lyric” is in the May/Summer ’13 issue. The piece showcases recent ghazals by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Rebecca Dunham, Anthony Madrid, Shara McCallum, and many others, examines the history of ghazals […]
Read More The Writer’s Chronicle*2 APRIL READINGS * NATIONAL POETRY MONTH* 2 PRETTY FLYERS* ~ Little Grassy Festival, April 10-12, 2013 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL Dollhouse Reading Series, April 20, 2013, 7:30 PM Chicago, IL
Read More April Readings: Little Grassy Festival (Carbondale, IL); Dollhouse Reading Series (Chicago, IL)The “Public Private” reading, curated by Nina Corwin for Woman Made Gallery on 2/3/13, is featured on Chicago Amplified for WBEZ 91.5. You can check it out here. I read with Shevaun Brannigan, CM Burroughs, Sandra Marchetti, Carrie McGath, and Naomi Palagi. Thank you, Kurt Heintz, for recording the reading. You can find samples of some of the poems we read […]
Read More WBEZ 91.5 Chicago / Poets on the RadioWomen Write Resistance “Tongue,” the title poem of Tongue Lyre, is in the Women Write Resistance anthology (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013, edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman. These poems are fierce. I’m honored to be included in this project. Review: “Exhilarating and groundbreaking…” -Les Femmes Folles ~ Other poets included are Alicia Ostriker, Maureen Seaton, Judy Grahn, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Ellen […]
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