The December Issue of Toad contains two of my poems, “Ten More Minutes, Please” and “What? What Is It You’re Trying To Tell Me?”
Also, the December Issue of >kill author contains three of my poems, “A Theme Song That Never Gets Old,” “Get Your Climbing Boots On, Betty” and “Keep It Up and You’ll Freeze Like That.” Each includes streaming audio. For your reading and listening pleasure.
Thank you to the editors at Toad and >kill author!
The good folks over at Red Lightbulbs have accepted my three poems “Forgivable Oversights in the Space Age,” “Thankfully I Can’t Make a Fist of My Feet,” and “There’s Always Time for a Little Slap and Tickle” for their next issue. Huzzah!
The November Issue of PANK Magazine contains five of my poems: “They Must Bake an Awful Lot of Cakes,” “Lifestyle of the Non-Quarterback and the Non-Cheerleader,” “Those Daring Old Men,” “One Woman Show” & “Have It Your Way.” Each poem includes streaming audio, and three were recorded in front of an audience. For your reading and listening pleasure. Thank you PANK Magazine!
I recently received the news that one of my poems has been accepted for the Second Edition from Architrave Press due in Spring 2012. This new poetry press out of St. Louis publishes letterpress printed poems on fine paper, separate pages which one can purchase individually or together in an edition of multiple. The first Edition contains eleven poems by such poets as Julie Moore, Corey Mesler, and Kelli Allen and can be purchased singly or as a complete set online here. From their website: “Each page is printed on 5 ½” x 8″ archival card stock using antique letterpress methods. We do this for several reasons: digital age readers have many choices, so any physically printed material must be special; poetry itself is special and deserves an elegant vehicle; and most of all, we want to catch the eyes of intelligent, artful readers who don’t yet realize there is poetry in the world they enjoy.” Right on!
Maybe at night we split up into different beings, and one of them comes back here, to stand inside this barn, with only one eye…
~From “Walking on the Sussex Coast” by Robert Bly
Got the wonderful news the other day that I’m to be Broadsided. If you’ve never heard of this press, they pair up writers with visual artists to create broadsides which are published online, one a month, as pdfs and which people all across the country (and beyond) download, print, and post in the streets or anywhere. Next August my poem “Stop Doing That,” first published in Poet Lore, will be Broadsided. I’m excited to see what an artist does with the poem. Meanwhile, check out the broadsides already made (they’ve been going since 2005) and perhaps print out a few and stick them up in your neighborhood? Anyone can become a Vector (their name for people who post their broadsides.) Cool, eh?
Some of my favorite broadsides include:
* “Aphasia” by Dorianne Laux
* “Epithalamion” by G.C. Waldrep
* “In Our Time” by Ilya Kaminsky
* “Mooring Stones” by Paula Carter
The last show from my time as host of The Poets Weave is now available as a podcast/stream. It’s the third and final section from Curtis Bauer’s reading this last spring as part of the Indiana Review’s Blue Light Reading Series. I’ve posted it on my Poets Weave page, or you can just visit directly here. It’s five powerful minutes of poetry and a lovely end to my three years as host. I’ll miss it. A lot. Thank you to Curtis and all my generous guests, the publishers and poets who allowed me to read their work, and most of all to my wonderful producer LuAnn Johnson. I know Romayne Rubinas Dorsey will be a great host. Visit often to see what she gets up to!
Received the happy news that three of my poems will be published in upcoming Issue Sixteen of the elegantly designed online literary journal > kill author. “Every issue of > kill author is subtitled with the surname of a deceased writer” and the writer for Issue Sixteen will be Kōbō Abe. You can read a 2009 interview with the anonymous editors over at PANK.
P.S. Do yourself a favor, sit down with a mug of mulled cider and give a listen to the twelve minute audio of Jon Steinhagen reading his short short story “Washington Crosses the Delaware, Eventually” from the current Issue Fifteen. It’s hilarious and he reads it marvelously. There’s something (a lot) to be said for actual acting ability when it comes to reading your work aloud.
“She’s cramped and tired and worried that she’ll forget the special song she’s supposed to sing.”
Here is “Birthday Cake” – a prose poem by Maura Stanton in the online literary magazine Matchbook from way back in November 2009.
I’ve received the happy news that two prose poems have just been accepted at the online journal Toad for their upcoming issue. I’ve really enjoyed the three issues of this journal so far, with some of the highlights for me being the poems of Matt Hart, Keith Leonard, and Mary Biddinger. Rivet-rivet.