No Help for That | Jackie Clark

To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is…

I’m late posting this news here but after 10 years I’ve decided to put my series Poets off Poetry/Song of the Week on an indefinite hiatus.  I wrote something to try to commemorate the moment. You can read it here. 10 years is a long time to do something and toward the end of 2017 the…

Well, here we are, another year. They do seem to feel less eventful as they accumulate, don’t they? Or maybe they are eventful except they stop really feeling that way? Or maybe it’s just me? I forgot to tell you about some poems that got published in December. The Elephants, a new-ish press and journal,…

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Sort of last minute to be posting here but I am reading tomorrow night for The New School After Hours, with fellow MFA alums and current MFA-ers. The reading is at KGB, all the way upstairs in the Red Room. The reading starts at 7pm.  Find more details here. Also, since I’ve last posted, two…

A new issue of Boog City is up with my interview with Argos Books.  You can read it here. Argos Books is also the featured press for the d.a. levy lives portion of the Welcome to Boog City Poetry Festival this weekend. The full line up for the festival this weekend can be found here.…

Next week is AWP, and even though it is in D.C. this year (aka the belly of the beast), I am still excited to go spend the weekend with poets. I am reading on Thursday night at the D.C. Arts Center for Bloof Books.  Facebook invite here. In other news, Stacey Tran’s chapbook Fake Haiku…

Soundtrack for our presidential transition. Fuck yea.

It’s been a minute but I have some new-ish poems up at Gramma this week.  You can read them here. It feels good to have some new poems out in the world. It’s hard to believe that this Friday is Inauguration Day. Though I am not making the trek to DC, I will be participating…

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,…