My lyric essay "Licked By Our World We Get Licked By Our World" just got published in the new online issue of Bellingham Review! I'm so excited to share this with you all. This is the final essay in my Four Classical Elements series. It's the water essay, and includes 4000 words on the times I almost drowned, life in the deepest oceans, collecting water from famous places, fish I have known, a diary entry from when I was 15, Altered States, Jaws, Howie Mandel, Close Encounters of the Third Kind…just to name a few. A thousand thanks to all the great folks at Bellingham Review, including B. Woods, Suzanne Paola, and Caity Scott!
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We recently ate take out from Eva's, a Polish restaurant and one of our favorite places to eat in Syracuse, and I was reminded of this poem of mine published recently in West Branch. It's one of my favorite of my post-second book poems and also has a little homage to this restaurant in it. I hope you enjoy...
Delighted to receive my copy of the new Pushcart Prize anthology and to see the poem from Jennifer L. Knox, whose work I nominated for the prize this year. Congratulations Jennifer! So delighted that the judges recognized your wonderful work! 😀
I just uploaded to my YouTube page a short video I made in June 2021 of me reading my poem "Like a River Stood on End," which was first published in Cherry Tree issue 7. I hope you enjoy it.
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It was such a delight to read & blurb the manuscript of Steven M. Smith's Strongman Contest, and I'm thrilled to share in the celebration of its existence in the world as an actual factual book, from Kelsay Books! Congratulations Steve on your first poetry book! Folks, this is one you want on your shelves.
On this 7 month birthday of my new poetry book, I'm delighted to receive the news that I'll be reading from it for the awesome Sundress Reading Series, probably in December 2021--I'll post more info as the date nears. Thanks so much to Erin Elizabeth Smith and the Sundress crew. I'm thrilled to read as part of this awesome reading series!
Ever wanted a 1.5 hour interview of me lipping off in depth about composing and revising my poem "Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks" from my book If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun? Along with oodles of nitty-gritty poetry writing talk--daily practices, radical free-writing, quelling the inner critic, lineation, creating stanzas, titling? Along with a little Dog Day Afternoon and Goodfellas content? Well, you're in luck. One just got posted today on YouTube by 1-Week Critique.
Huge thank you to Matthew Schmidt and the awesome gang at 1-Week Critique!
This conversation was such a pleasure, and I'm thrilled to share it with you all.
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Terrance Hayes gave such an inspiring reading tonight for the Downtown Writing Center, showing us a series of poetry videos he's been making, in addition to reading us some new work. Yes yes!
I'm teaching a one-off generative Zoom workshop on Voice in poetry, as part of the Literary Bit of Festival run by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council in Oxford Mississippi. I'm teaching the same class twice, at noon on October 29 and at 3:30 on October 30. It costs only $5 to attend. Come on by! To register visit /literarybitof
Vachel Lindsay | The Moon's The North Wind's Cooky
(What the Little Girl Said)
The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
He bites it, day by day,
Until there's but a rim of scraps
That crumble all away.
The South Wind is a baker.
He kneads clouds in his den,
And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy
North . . . Wind . . . eats . . . again!
Huge sparkly thank yous to Sara Walker and The Superstition Review for posting about my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun! They included a the title poem and a video of me reading other two poems from the book.
https://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/when-life-gives-you-lemons/
