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Drought 9 Apr 2012 | 12:56 pm
When I first started reading for exams, I expected to become prolific in my poetry writing. I imagined I'd be so inspired, I'd write at least one poem per text. Having written a poem a day the year be...
RIP, Adrienne Rich 29 Mar 2012 | 10:56 am
I am so sad to hear that Adrienne Rich has passed away. The very first poem I wrote was inspired by her line from "Twenty-One Love Poems": "Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine." It ...
AWP 2012 Recap 11 Mar 2012 | 02:51 pm
I spent most of my time at AWP (wo)manning the Quarterly West/Western Humanities Review table, desperate for coffee and someone to spell me so I could go pee. Also, buying so many books that I had to ...
2011 Vida Count 29 Feb 2012 | 08:01 am
The depressing results are in from the 2011 VIDA count, which is where they tabulate how many women vs. how many men have been published in major magazines in the last year. It is disheartening, thou...
AWP 2012 25 Feb 2012 | 09:58 am
I will be heading to Chicago for AWP next Wednesday, and can be found every day around lunch time at the Quarterly West/Western Humanities Review table, so stop by and say hello, enter our contest, an...
Glitter Tongue 15 Feb 2012 | 11:05 am
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the online anthology Glitter Tongue has launched. Glitter Tongue is a collection of Queer love poems by thirty queer and trans poets, launching Valentines Day 2012. I...
Come See Me Read! 24 Jan 2012 | 07:16 pm
I am reading, along with some colleagues, at the Art Barn on Thursday at 7pm. Come listen if you're in the area!
Quarterly West 8 Jan 2012 | 03:45 pm
Another wonderful issue of Quarterly West has been published, featuring poems by Carl Phillips, Krystal Howard, Ash Bowen, Alice Bolin, Gillian Cummings, Keith Montesano, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Gary ...
Monsterpiece 5 Jan 2012 | 12:47 pm
For awhile now, I've been referring to my second manuscript of poetry as my "monsterpiece" since my focus is on "monstrous" bodies: not literal monsters, but those bodies deemed deformed, queer, dirty...
Reading in Salt Lake 29 Nov 2011 | 03:35 pm
Tomorrow is my Golden Birthday (I turn 29 on the 29th) and then Wednesday I am reading in Salt Lake City at Ken Sanders Rare Books with Lisa Fay Coutley and Timothy O'Keefe, two colleagues from my PhD...
