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In Search of Saying What I Mean & Peace
So much gratitude in my person for Lynn Melnick who wrote this lovely micro-review of Aphoria. It means so much to me that my poems communicated what I wanted them to, that they were able to say what they meant, and that someone thought enough of them to say so. Lately I have been…
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Boredom
Boredom See how the fish go back and forth endlessly in their tank, from one side to the other and back and back again, along a line they forget. Boredom is a failure of the imagination to perceive reality, which is exciting. For instance, if you get very close to a tiny bug scampering across…
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The Last Book I Loved & Poetry Society of America & Boston Review & More Songs of the Week
A little something that I wrote about Lucy Ives’ book nineties was featured on The Rumpus’ The Last Book I Loved series last Friday. You can read it here. Also, I was featured on the Poetry Society of America’s In Their Own Word series a couple weeks ago. I am super excited to have been…
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Good Book
Good Book If their path was one of desire Where is their desire in this land of miles upon miles Of waste? – of bitter black cold loneliness Gray packs of them streak through the silent night One can hear them, one cannot spot one of them, Day and night, night and day, leaps and…
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Freakin Out
PS: I’m also going to miss this when it’s over. It’s been something interesting to look forward to every day. I think this one is my favorite:
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New Chapbook from Bloof & Reading at Berl’s & POP & SOW & interrupture & The Gold Magnolia’s Kickstarter!
Okay, so lots of stuff but first and foremost I am SO EXCITED (and so delayed in saying so) that Bloof will be publishing my chapbook Sympathetic Nervous System in 2014! Check out the full announcement here. I am so happy to be in such good company! Here is the full list of chapbooks that…
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Updates & Readings & POP & SOW…it’s been a minute
I haven’t been very good with updates lately. In fact, I forgot to tell you about some readings that I was going to be doing and that are now done! I read on September 5 with fellow BAP author Dominque Townsand at the Denny Gallery on the lower east side. I do have some pictures…
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Open Letters Monthly & New POP & More SOWs & New Yoga Sleuth
So some updates and news: A poem of mine was recently published in Open Letters Monthly. You can read it here. I just posted a new POP today by Tanya Larkin about The Wailers. It was so awesome to listen to their tunes as I was getting the essay together. You can read (and listen!)…
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Poetry Festival at Governors Island This Weekend & More SOWs & New POP
This Saturday is the 3rd Annual New York Poetry Festival on Governor’s Island. I will be reading there on Saturday, first at 11.30am for Coldfront and then again at 4pm for Fou. It’s supposed to be a nice day weather-wise. Should be a fun after noon. Check out the Facebook invite here. In other news,…
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I Finished My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgarrd
I loved it, for so many reasons. Here are a few: “As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it. Things that are too small to see with the naked eye,…
No Help for That | Jackie Clark 