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my broadsides are in a show!

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I cannot believe this! OMG. My broadside collaboration with Kate Renee that I did last summer while I was a writer-in-residence at the Prairie Center of the Arts got into a show. A show! How cool is that?

I’m set to read at the Opening and Reception for Belles Lettres. Here’s the info I have right now:

Reading (poetry) in the Belles Lettres Opening
7:00-10:00 p.m., Friday, March 2, 2012
Altered Esthetics, 1224 Quincy Street NE, Minneapolis, MN

 

Show (poetry) Broadside Collaboration with artwork by Kate Renee
March 1– 29, 2012
Belles Lettres, Altered Esthetic, Minneapolis, MN

I’m so excited! My poetry will be in an art gallery, on a wall, illuminated with flattering lighting, and people who are carrying around little drinks and snacks will get to stand before it and gaze with their artistic eyes. I will be one of those people and I will be thrilled.

2012 Nebraska Poets Calendar

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I read Sunday afternoon at the great space of Noyes Gallery, the reading and art show for Black Star Press’s 2012 Nebraska Poets Calender. First the clip of my little poem “Ten-Speed” that I wrote about my hand-me-down orange huffy olympia bicycle that I biked on all through high school and college.

The poets also gave readings of other work. I read “Promise” and “Bundling,” from the broadside collaboration, and now collected in THE PUPPET WIFE, forthcoming from Pudding House.

It was a such an amazing place! And poets are so appreciative of other poets’ work. Yay!

 

Live from STL

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Here are two videos from my reading Friday at noon here in St. Louis at  MMLA. It was a great gathering of poets, many of whom do interesting collaborative projects with art. I was in such great company. I read from BRANDING GIRLS and from the broadside collaboration I did with Kate Johnson. Here’s two of the broadsides. First, “Posturing.”

Second, “Housekeeping.”

I’ll try to post a few more once I check out the video.

This morning at 8:30 (can we say thank you daylight savings time. yes we can), I’m presenting in a panel on teaching and play. I’m very much looking forward to hearing my fellow panelist and bringing back some great teaching ideas to my classes this term.

I’ve been accepted

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Dancing Girl Press just accepted my chapbook SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER for its 2012 lineup of poetry collections. I’m thrilled! If you haven’t looked at their recent catalog, check out the new little books by Stacy Kidd, Julie Cohen, Leah Browning, Cati Porter, and Leigh Stein. I will be in such good company.

In other news, I’m heading up to Omaha tomorrow to see my poem “The Purse” performed in Lit Undressed:

Performance (poetry) in Lit Undressed / Omaha Lit Fest
8 p.m., October 19, 2011
House of Loom, 1012 S. 10th Street, Omaha, Nebraska

Sally Deskins has been compiling wonderful interviews in Les Femmes Folles with Nebraska women artists and writers like Judy Slater and Dana Fritz. I’m up next in “Women of LFF: Laura Madeline Wiseman.” I talk a little about my poem “The Purse.” I wrote the poem in the master poetry class Alicia Ostriker taught this past spring term. I’m really excited to see it performed!

In broadside news, if you’re not local and want a copy of Posturing and/or The Gift, I’ve made them available through paypal. Kate Johnson, my collaborator for the poetry + art broadsides, has been busy too. She’s listed all her remaining copies of the series on Etsy. As a small aside, I love Etsy. I’ve ordered my share of x-mas gifts from that great site.

In other news, Nebraska Life went digital with one of my poems. Mississippi Review has moved it’s online publications to Blip Magazine and reprints my poem “Elevator Girl Brand,” a poem that is collected in BRANDING GIRLS. Speaking of ekphrasis, I’ve been cited in Robert Denham’s POETS ON PAINTINGS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010). Finally, my little chapbook, PLASTIC MATCHES, is listed on Library Thing and Goodreads.

Not bad news as the weather chills toward Halloween.

Broadsided in Omaha

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My recent collaboration with artist Kate Johnson, the limited edition series of broadsides that combine poetry and graphic acrylic paintings created at the Prairie Center of the Arts, is well on it’s way to the next phase: readings.

(I’m not sure if “broadside” can be a verb without it automatically being associated with car accidents, but how else does one say they read from their broadsides in a succinct matter? I broadsided, as in I read. Or would it mean I made broadsides? Well, either way, I had a lot of fun and that’s what this collaboration was all about. Yeah!)

Omaha readings

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I’m so excited to read this afternoon in Omaha from BRANDING GIRLS and from my recent broadside collaboration with artist Kate Johnson. Here’s the reading info:

Reading (poetry) at European Studies Conference
3:30-4:45, Friday, October 7, 2011
Dodge Room A, Milo Bail Student Center
UNO, Omaha, Nebraska

I love the energy of Omaha. I can hardly wait. It will be the 10th reading I’ve given this year. I’ve never read that much. Too fun! As for the broadsides, since they’re so new, I haven’t yet had a chance to read aloud from them. I’ve put them on a powerpoint and try to  get some video of the reading. More on that soon! Yeah!

In other Omaha news. My poem “The Purse” that I wrote this past spring in the master poetry class with Alicia Ostriker has been selected as one of the poems that will be performed at Lit Undressed. Here’s the info:

Performance (poetry) in Lit Undressed / Omaha Lit Fest
8 p.m., October 19, 2011
House of Loom, 1012 S. 10th Street
Omaha, Nebraska

I’ve never been to anything like this! I’m so looking forward to seeing what it’s all about. How cool is it to have someone else read and perform your poem?

Maybe I’ll see you at one of these events!

September News

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Given the start of the new school year, I thought I’d offer some news.

The English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is posting its recent news of publications, awards, and achievements. As a lecturer, I’m on their website, too.

I have poems in the current issues of Mixed Fruit, The Adroit Journal, SN Review, and in the anthology Science Poetry (McAlister, Neil Harding, 2011).

In past publications, Colere has digitized some of its earlier issues including my essay “The Possible Length of Touch.” Forthcoming, I have poems in Feminist Studies, Spittoon, and an essay in Dispatches from the Classroom.

No Name Readings Series is now available on iTunes, including my readings in November and March last year. 

Finishing Line Press has posted my upcoming readings.

Wonderful poet and editor Cati Porter posted a self-interview of her recent doings, including blurb writing for my forthcoming book SPRUNG.

Zomobo linked to my broadside collaboration with Kate Johnson.

Speaking of broadsides, I mentioned in my last post I have four prints left (two of “Posturing” and two of “The Gift“) and after I posted that, I sold two more prints (one of “Bundling” and one of “Promise“). Thankfully. Kate still had both of those in stock. And then I got a surprise email from someone kind of famous who was impressed by my broadsides and all the sales. I’m impressed too! I didn’t know a little series of art and poetry would be so popular. I’m just as tickled. Thank you, by the way, all those who’ve taken a print or two home. If you still want one, let me know, and I’ll get them right to you.