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A book manuscript I thought I was only half done writing suddenly came together into a draft. A draft that runs…maybe a little on the long side. I’d thought the book was so far from being done that I had started flirting with another manuscript I saw coming together, even though those poems feel more
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I was so eager to have Suzanne Frischkorn’s new book Girl on a Bridge that I accidentally ordered it twice! And oddly, both packages arrived on the same day. I’m keeping the one Suzanne signed to me, but I’d like to do a promotion to give away my other copy–FOR FREE! Go to Facebook and
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Last night at Story/Stereo, I discovered: Tony and I wore the same shirt to the event. What are the odds? That has certainly never happened to me before. In a related story, I saw one of the contestants on Ru Paul’s Drag Race wearing a sweater I own. When Kathleen read from this collection, I
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is humbling. Lambda Literary Award Nominees Gay Poetry * Breakfast with Thom Gunn, by Randall Mann (University of Chicago Press) * The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, by Brent Goodman (Black Lawrence Press) * The First Risk, by Charles Jensen (Lethe Press) * Sweet Core Orchard, by Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press) * What
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Today is Arden’s fourth birthday! In honor of the occasion, she asked that I share some of her impressive stats and fun trivia with you: Name Arden Lily Jensen Nicknames Arden Lily, Ardentina (as in “Don’t cry for me, Ardentina”), Ardenza (rhymes with “credenza”), Bug, Lady, Lil, Missy, Muffin, Muppet, My Boo, Nugget, Snugglebunny, Stinkerbell,
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ALBUM OF THE YEAR Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It’s BlitzMusic Math: New Order + Garbage / Smashing Pumpkins + Scissor SistersBest Tracks: “Zero,” “Heads Will Roll,” “Shame and Fortune,” “Hysteric”Representative Lyrics: “Shake it like a ladder to the sun / Makes me feel like a madman on the run / Find it never, never far gone
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