Category: sped
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// winner of the national poetry series
In the midst of my county burning down and threatening to suffocate us all, I’m still honored and deeply grateful to announce that former California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes has chosen my manuscript Borderline Fortune as a National Poetry Series winner, to be published by Penguin in fall 2021. Excerpts have appeared in Empty…
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// reading & records
I’m reading on Friday 6/3 in San Francisco, and 20 Minute Loop is putting out a new LP.
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// queen mob’s teahouse
Today on Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a conversation with Russell Bennetts about aggressive earnestness and, well, you be the judge. And no, those aren’t our real bodies. Also, in case you missed it, Bennetts was behind another recent project: Jeff Bezos wrote a poetry ebook, and I helped. …
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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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// playlist
sped was officially born today! Cue the celebratory music. One day I’d like to write more about the why—or at least the how come—of these songs. For now, with school in session and a birthday to celebrate, I’ll start with this playlist from the book, mostly from the last section, “Programs for Exceptional.” Tune in…
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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…
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// interview & awp
Hot off the binary presses, How to Greet Strangers author Joyce Thompson interviews me about sped: process, concept, real life. And, sped pre-releases at AWP! Swing by the Sidebrow/Les Figues table at the bookfair in Boston to check it out. I’ll be reading with a host of talented writers at the Distillery Gallery, 7–10…
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// the real cover & artistic autopsy
At the dinner table he dissected the banana, examined it under a magnifying glass, weighed it/ Prelude to the massacre, to the years of rain/ —“Forever No Lo” Where is their hive and why did you settle for mechanized translation as intentional language// —“The Apiary” Think of it as a Rubik’s cube/ not a…
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// straight girls
// what does a lesbian bring to a second date—with a man? swept up and the close bodies chanting/ She told me not to fuck with straight girls/ She told me not to take pills// Eugene deciduous/ that miniskirt again// What about letting him make you a straight girl// — “Programs for Exceptional,”…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 