poetry
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This weekend Beau and I went to a theatre production–I’ll try to keep the details of it as vague as possible, unless otherwise relevant, because the point of my post today isn’t about the show’s quality, but my response to it. I was in the theatre less than 30 seconds when I realized what I…
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Is the publishing bubble going to burst? I’m thinking a lot about how literary publishing has really exploded in the past several years, with the rise of small presses, nonprofit presses, print-on-demand services, diy publishing, and so on. I think it is fantastic that there are so many ways to get books into print now,…
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Nanopedia has grown out of a writing prompt I gave myself a few years ago. For a long time, those pieces were all individual prose poems, but I began to see that they had similar concerns, themes, and images. “The moon watches you through her veil of thin clouds” and “He brings the night into…
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Q: When is a book of poetry 8.5″ x 8.5″? A: When it is The First Risk, coming atcha Sept 24, 2009.
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Things I could have assumed about my future before going into an MFA program: > All it would prepare me to do is teach college. > I would never look back at approximately 95% of the poems I wrote during those years. > Although I would learn to put together a book manuscript, I would…
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Have not been writing much new poetry, but have been enjoying some revision work and also reading a lot: Nothing Right, Antonya NelsonDon’t Cry, Mary GaitskillCollected Stories, Amy HemphillChapters from an Autobiography, Samuel M. StewardSight Map, Brian TeareNational Anthem, Kevin Prufer National Anthem is a book I wish I’d written. It’s strange and satirical and…
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