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Ghost Girl on the Moon, and an interview

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I do hope you’ll drop by Crescent Moon on Valentine’s Day at 7 p.m. Here’s another sample of what I’ll read from Ghost Girl, “The Living Parent Emails Ghost Girl.”

I’ll also likely read from My Imaginary, like “In the New House.”

Jen Kindbom, editor of  The Floorboard Review, has just added a new feature to her new literary magazine: interviews. I was delighted when she asked me to be one of the first poets and artists she featured in “The Ground Floor.”

Valentine’s Day reading

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On February 14 at 7 p.m. I will be reading at Crescent Moon with Mary K. Stillwell. Given the date, I will be reading love and anti-love poems from my new chapbook Ghost Girl (Pudding House, 2010), poems from my dissertation on Matilda Fletcher, and maybe some other new work or poems from my forthcoming chapbook Branding Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2011).

Here’s a sneak peek: In my chapbook Ghost Girl the poem “Ghost Girl Wonders if she’s Always had Bad Eyes” is a new love poem and a break-up poem that meditates on vision, how traveling becomes an inspiration to re-see the world around us. In the poem Ghost Girl flies to Florida to walk the white sands, tours a city garden of roses, and visits an art museum with an exhibit on artistic responds to Hurricane Katrina.

My Imaginary at Zen’s, too

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My No Name reading is today, Friday November 12 at 4pm at Zen’s Lounge on 11th Street just north of O. Excited? Me too. Here are three new audio recordings of poems from My Imaginary.

And, if I have time, I might even read from Branding Girls forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Branding Girls goes on pre-sale later this month. Yippee!

early turkey-day thanks

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Things I’m thankful for:

  • I’ve just sent Arts & Letters the proof of my essay “Hunger.” I’m so excited to have my essay in their spring issue!
  • One of my advisers, Joy Castro, wrote about my capstone oral for my comprehensive exams, which took place at the end of October.
  • I’m officially ABD! Or, as Joy called it in her post, All but done. Yippee!!
  • As part of my residency this past summer is: My poem “Maternal Lineage” is up on the National Park Service’s Herbert Hoover Historic Site website (a residency which was mentioned in USA Today. Wow). There’s an audio file of it too:

Maternal Lineage

  • Split This Rock accepted the panel proposal I and two other fantastic poets submitted. We’re doing a panel on writing the activist body. It’s going to be super fun!
  • My wonderful adviser Carole Levin has motivated me to look into fellowships. Thanks Carole!
  • The amazing editors at Pudding House and Dancing Girl Press are publishing my chapbooks Ghost Girl and My Imaginary, respectfully.
  • A short story I wrote has been accepted for the Fall 2009 Relief Anthology, edited by J. K. Richard. Yeah!
  • And of course: my sweet A.