Category: press
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// poetry center & upcoming events
A few reading/event/announcement things: Melissa Eleftherion and Elise Ficarra have launched a great project: a community-curated chapbook archive for the SF State Poetry Center. Read more about the concept on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog. The archive is up to thirty contributions, including my out-of-print Tarpaulin Sky chapbook, Forever No Lo. # I’m excited to…
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// bleakney on sped
Many thanks to Elaine Bleakney for reading & reflecting on sped this week. She writes, “This is such agile, high-risk and refreshing work … What I feel by the end of sped is this force stepping to the side of ego: a strange new (to me) listener-animator in poetry.” Check out the full post here.…
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// review, interview, reading
My early anniversary gift was an unexpected Facebook message from Walla Walla vintner-poet Katrina Roberts, letting me know that sped gets a favorable review in her recently published Los Angeles Review of Books essay (second section). The piece also discusses new work from BOA and Belladonna. And I got a text from Mutiny Radio’s La…
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// in memory
When I flew to Seattle for my father’s memorial service, my mother and I—and sometimes the people who streamed through my parents’ house for the days and weeks to come—sat on the back patio and stared out at Puget Sound. My mom smoked a steady chain of cigarettes. I folded, chest into thighs. We laughed with…
