Author: afterthoughtgraveyard
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Still Grateful for Said the Gramophone
Said the Gramophone is a music blog that is roughly 13 years old. I am a roughly 35 year old woman, who has been sitting behind similar yet different desks for roughly 10 years. Almost the entirety of those 10 years I have been checking out and falling behind with checking our STG’s weekly postings,…
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I Cannot Seem to Find I’m Able
Even though I HATE the titles on this record, I am really feeling the new Bon Iver record 22, A Million. This song feels apt today. In other news, here are the first two issues of Boog City that I conducted interviews for. The first one has an interview with Dikembe Press and the second…
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Fake Missed Connections & Re-Print of Office Work!
So, I wrote this personal essay about Brett Fletcher Lauer’s book Fake Missed Connections and it was published today on Entropy. I feel pretty happy about this essay, despite its personal nature. It felt like something that I needed to write. Also, amazingly, my chapbook Office Work was re-printed! So many and forever thanks to…
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Wendy’s Subway & Improper Maps & Boog City & The Future?
Some updates, old and new. This summer me and a few others will be working with Wendy’s Subway, a non-profit library and writing space in Bushwick, to print a mini-manuscript (less than 300 words) on letterpress. We held an open call for submissions in June and got a bunch of really interesting stuff but decided to…
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Honorable Mention!
I found out last week that my manuscript “Everything is Always Wonderful if it is Almost Over” was a finalist with honorable mention for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Book competition. I feel really happy about this! It’s just as good as winning and couldn’t have come at a better time. I have…
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Reading Next Week at Brooklyn Public Library and DIY Chapbook
I am happy to be reading next Wednesday, May 11 at 7.30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library for Brooklyn Arts Press. I will be reading with many of my BAP peers. It should be a good time. Here is the link to the Facebook event. Also, last month I participated in a DIY Chapbook Challenge.…
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Because I Am An Artist
LOL, but seriously. Happy to have learned about Elinor Nauen and Koff Magazine from The Poetry Project Newsletter. Check it out here.
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Poetry Crush
While it is still February, I should tell you that friend and poet J. Hope Stein put together a three volume issue of Poetry Crush in honor of Valentine’s Day. A poem of mine appears in Volume 3 but check out Volume 1 and Volume 2 also! Thanks Jen! In other news, Some Rain Must…
No Help for That | Jackie Clark 