No Help for That | Jackie Clark

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

LOL, but seriously. Happy to have learned about Elinor Nauen and Koff Magazine from The Poetry Project Newsletter. Check it out here.

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…

Burden of Proof Rain makes events When you travel Situationally you are further or are Occam’s Razor The assumption that makes the most sense at the time Accounting for a variation of time When what suits you changes Avoidance a poor technique For something to continue living The consequences of decision It isn’t me or…