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I just finished my first of my AWP book booty, Denise Duhamel’s Kinky. Kinky is a book-length sequence of poems about Barbie, the popular fashion doll for young girls, an American icon both for her glamour and beauty as much as for her notorious inhuman measurements and unpopular sentiments (“Math class is tough!”) The poems…
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My weekend couldn’t get any better after I saw She’s the Man on Saturday night. Those of you who know me well know that my cultural tastes tend to fall on the side of 14-year-old girls (in terms of music/movies/tv/boys), so it probably won’t come as a surprise that I was fairly eager to watch…
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I’m actually liking LOCUSPOINT the best so far.
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We have to shift the name of LOCUS a bit in order to avoid competition and confusion with a great existing publication… I’ll be brainstorming options this weekend. So far: LOCUS POCUS? Stay tuned.
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Last night was one of those nights I went into with nothing to do, but came out with a full plate, two entreés (one was raw), an old friend, and then poems. When I write now, Arden lays in my lap and dozes. I took that bit and put it in the poem. A limousine…
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Some of you may know that I have been writing again. Something long, something very focused, and something that I can only write at night, in bed. Last night I found The Laramie Project playing on cable and tuned in. I saw it the first time several years ago, I think when it first aired…
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