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  • Welcome to the Jungle

    A few wonderful people have joined my blogroll in the past few weeks, and I wanted to point them out to you: Aimée Baker, one of my colleagues at the Piper Center for Creative Writing, stays up far too late and sleeps in until the day’s half over. But she’s also blogging now, and she…

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  • Win a Date with Aimee Nezhukumatathil!

    That’s the name of the contest I won. Aimee and novelist MacKenzie Bezos (The Testing of Luther Albright) are in residence at the Piper Center for Creative Writing this week, doing workshops, Q&As, readings, and youth outreach. They are both such kind guests! It’s wonderful to have them here. Aimee brought me a bottle of…

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  • Tania Katan’s One Month Stand

    My One Night Stand With Cancera one woman showwritten and performed by Tania KatanOctober 11 – November 11, 2007 ACT Theatre’s Bullitt TheatreClick here for more information

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  • Good News from MiPO and OCHO

    It’s the best thing to be in good company: Authors Nominated for The Coat Hanger Award 2007 Christian CampbellCamille DungyChristopher GoodrichSteve HalleRichard HarteisCharles JensenDoug KearneyJoan LarkinMike ManiquizK. Silem Mohammad Peter Moore Aimee NezhukumatathilDavid PraterLee Anne RoripaughEva SalzmanLeigh SteinEmma TrellesLaura Van ProoyenDavid WagonerThom Ward The nominations are from guest editors including Nick Carbo (Asian-American Issue), Adam…

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  • spork you, then.

    Several pieces from The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon are live at spork right now. Thanks to Drew and Richard for taking them. I’m also very excited to now say this is the second time I’ve been right on top of Randall Mann. (Sorry, Eduardo.) The wonderful and charming James Hall is also there, down…

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  • LOCUSPOINT lives.

    Jen Currin presents the vertigo west poetry collective at LOCUSPOINT. We’re proud to feature work by the following inventive and innovative poets: Meliz ErginCollette GagnonBrook HouglumHelen KukKim MinkusEmilie O’BrienCristina I. Viviani along with Jen Currin herself. Shin Yu Pai’s Dallas Edition will launch in mid-July. Enjoy!

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