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Girls Write Now & Chapbook Release Party & Jersey City Independent Interview & More Songs of the Week
So I don’t know why I haven’t mentioned this here but I’ve been working this year as a mentor for Girls Write Now, a non-profit writing/mentoring organization that works with high school girls. My experience thus far has been pretty extraordinary. It’s been a very good way for me to get out of my head…
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New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship! & POP & Songs of the Week & The Rumpus
So, I’ve been a bit negligent about updating here, which is crazy because I got some BIG news about two weeks ago. I am the proud recipient of a 2012 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Pretty amazing, right? Even more amazing is that I encouraged my friend and photographer Doug…
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I Live Here Now Available Now, Another Rumpus Review, and More Songs of the Week
My chapbook I Live Here Now is now available from Lame House Press. I just got my copies a few days ago. Super excited! Also, I wrote another music review for The Rumpus a few weeks about the Cass McCombs’ record Humor Risk. You can read it here. The next record I am going…
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Pre-order I Live Here Now from Lame House Press, EOAGH, InDigest Poem of the Day Podcast, and More Songs of the Week
My third chapbook I Live Here Now is available for pre-order from Lame House Press now! I’m really glad that these poems have found such an awesome home. Thank you Gina Myers! A while ago I had three poems published in EOAGH but I think I forgot to tell you. You can go here to read…
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Upon My Return from Vermont Studio Center, New POP, and More Songs of the Week
Well, it’s been about a week since I’ve been back from the Vermont Studio Center. It was kind of a tough week, re-entering, going back to work, etc. I was at VSC for two weeks and it was a pretty amazing experience. I have never done anything like VSC before. There is truly something to…
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H_NGM_N, Poets off Poetry, Song of the Week, and The Rumpus
Whoosh, a bunch of updates today! First, I have two poems in the latest issue of H_NGM_N. You can read them read here. Big thanks to Nate! Next, check out the most recent Poets off Poetry featuring an essay by Matthew Rohrer about one Journey song in-particular. You can read the essay here. Oh, and don’t miss the…
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Sink Review and Songs of the Week and Don’t Let Us Get Sick
I have two poems from my forthcoming chapbook I Live Here Now (Lame House Press, December 2011) in the latest issue of the Sink Review. The journal got a pretty-pretty redesign and I am pleased to be in such good company. Special thanks to the editors, Steven Karl and Dan Magers! Also, the newest POP is up…
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Video of Red Fortress Performance and More Songs of the Week
Video footage of some of my poems turned into a short theater piece can be seen here. Still bummed that I wasn’t able to be there in real life. I was a little uncomfortable with the extent to which anger factored into the piece because I feel like the anger in those poems is a…
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Poems into Plays, More Songs of the Week, POP, Forklift #23 and I’m 30
I am happy to report that several poems from my chapbook Red Fortress (H_NGM_N) are being turned into short theater pieces for Hearth Gods’ first Poet Nights. This is immensely interesting and flattering to me. How would someone else choose to represent my poems? Will there be dialogue? What will it sound like? I just…
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Reading for Mental Marginalia Tomorrow
Just a reminder that I am reading tomorrow for Mental Marginalia. You can find more information about the reading here. In other news there are some more Song of the Weeks up for you to check out, this week’s being about a Smog song by Claire Donato. Also, Angel Olsen!
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