May 2013
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reading
I will be reading as part of the Headless: A Body of Text-Based Performers this Tuesday night, 5/21, in Logan Square w/ all sorts of awesome people, including a handful of dgp-ers. Would love to see you there!
I have a new interview up at Women’s Quarterly Conversation, in which I talk about some of the poems in the upcoming girl show and all manner of other randomness…
BIRDFEAST
There are a few more pieces from my newest project apocalypse theory: a reader over in the latest issue of BIRDFEAST…
April 2013
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365 Project
This year, I’ve decided to participate in a 365 Days/365 Photos project, posting one daily image that documents everyday randomness. You can follow along with me here...
apocalypse theory: a reader
A handful of pieces from a newish project apocalypse theory: a reader are among the newest offerings up over at Jet Fuel Review.
isabel of the wreckage
Too much iron in the soil and the grass won’t grow. Impatiens will falter, swelter in the dusty kettle. Too much metal in the water and doors swell in their frames. Spoons bend backwards and the kitchen smells of fever.
Sediment in the iced tea, and a girl begins to see things. Bluish shadows peeking from beneath quilts. Flies gathering at her hem. Yesterday, she bled...
March 2013
5 posts
new prints
A whole batch of new prints are currently available from the Circularity Series in the shop, here..
from the fever almanac
sangria Not red, not exactly. More like dawn, or the illusion of it. Hummingbirds, humidity. Azaleas splitting in your palm. In Texas, the nights are sueded, starlit. There is no language for the soft of your hands, their thunderous braille. Bruises ripen on my wrists like plums. Nevertheless, I am sly, scarlet-lipped. Gathering light in the folds of my dress. Crossing my sevens polite and...
women write resistance
I am excited to be a part of this amazing anthology, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence just out from Hyacinth Girl Press and edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman.
women publishers roundtable
Yours truly talks poetry and publishing with a host of other fine woman-powered presses over @ delirious hem. Check out the first installment, here..
http://tinyurl.com/a25gp85
the shared properties of water and stars
Kristina Marie Darling, the force behind {noctuary press}, is over at the Best American Poetry blog talking about upcoming books, including a sampling of mine:
http://tinyurl.com/a2vzzqu
Kristy Bowen’s the shared properties of water and stars presents a compelling narrative in the guise of mathematical word problems. I’m excited by the ways Bowen blurs the boundaries between...
February 2013
5 posts
lunchtime poetry
I will be reading with a couple of dancing girl authors, Sara Tracey and Sacha Siskonen next Monday at Harold Washington College @ 12:30pm. (Harold Washington College, Lake & Wabash, Rm 1115). I’m thinking I might read from havoc and debut some of my newer, shiny poems. So if you like poems about homewrecking and apocalypse theory, you should come listen.
A selection of small postcard paintings from the ghost landscapes project are hitting the walls on the 3rd Floor of the CC library in the Art of the Library Series. Check out some samples, here..
The NEXT Next Big Thing
I talk a little more about my upcoming release, the shared properties of water and stars due out in April from Noctuary Press, here…
There are a number of things that created the sort of inspirational soup from which the storyline of this project developed, including marathons of American Horror Story, my love of Gregory Crewdson’s photography, a simultaneous fascination and...
projectile
is pleased as punch to have the inaugural spot over at Projectile, a new publication dedicated to “non traditional writing with a feminist bent.” The selections are some of the text pieces from my ghost landscapes project…
circularity
sneak peak at a new collage series I’ve been working on the last few days..
see more here….
January 2013
2 posts
the next big thing
So happy to be invited to take part in The Next Big Thing, a self-interview series about authors and their books. I talk a little about the forthcoming girl show..
I was also intrigued by the idea of these entities as being a transformative space, a place that existed beyond the typical circumscribed life of most women, a transgressive space that allowed a bit more freedom, yet was also...
I just posted some photos of the exhibits that are currently up right now, including pieces from both radio ocularia and the unusual creatures series. Take a look...
December 2012
3 posts
So very happy to have my pieces chosen for a 2012 Best of Spittoon Award!
news!!!
My prose-oriented project, the shared properties of water and stars, has been picked up for publication by the new Noctuary Press and is due out in early 2013, along with books by Carol Guess and Eva Heisler . Some details on this exciting new venture are below
Noctuary Press is a small independent press that focuses on female writers working with cross-genre prose forms (such as flash fiction,...
Spittoon: Posterior Spider
New pieces from beautiful, sinister arefeatured in the latest Spittoon. The entire manuscript is due out from Maverick Duck Press next summer, so stay tuned…
November 2012
2 posts
unusual creatures
some pieces from my newest project, unusual creatures, will be hitting the walls in the Art of the Library winter show.
from havoc
movie of the week
Whatever it is you’ve done, Meredith Baxter-Burney is crying in the shower. Made off with the husband, stolen the child. Everybody loves a victim, especially the blonde, pretty kind. Even when she’s stuffing chocolate donuts down her throat in the Safeway parking lot three at a time. Everybody loves a martyr in blue pajamas, throwing up in her white, white...
October 2012
4 posts
I have a couple of pieces from beautiful, sinister in the latest issue of Fifth Wednesday. On Friday, November 16th, we’ll be celebrating its release with a reading @ The Book Cellar here in Chicago..details here..
PoetryCrush Exclusive
My short piece confessing my desire to get it on with TS Eliot is up over at PoetryCrush’s 12 Dead Poets (I’d Like to Fuck), check it out..
radio ocularia
A segment of collages from radio ocularia, a forthcoming artists book project, will be on display as part of Columbia College’s alumni on 5 exhibition on the 5th floor of Columbia College Library, 624 S. Michigan from now through mid-January. To get a peak at the series, check out my flickr…
September 2012
3 posts
WomanMade Gallery
Back in July, I had the treat of reading from Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan at WomanMade gallery with a group of other editor/curators here in Chicago. Here is a poem from that afternoon…
publication news
My chapbook, beautiful, sinister will be released by Maverick Duck Press next summer. Stay tuned for a sneak peak in the upcoming issues of Spittoon and Fifth Wednesday (print)…
August 2012
3 posts
more from the forthcoming girl show (Black Lawrence Press, 2013):
spectacle in which a woman becomes a heliotrope Pain is by far the loveliest aphrodisiac, the loveliest of distractions. After a cup of coffee, a lime, she tastes pennies. Is dazzled by the angle of the trapezist’s legs slicing the air. She fingers the pearl buttons and calls him out to the lawn where the moon floats like an...
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July 2012
4 posts
more from girl show @ past simple…
You chew through a box of pencils til the throbbing stops. Bad ears. Bad dreams. Like the drowned, only bone dry.
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a new interview on all things dancing girl press….
“I feel like the rise of the internet actually has SAVED chapbook presses, making them easier to sell, easier to market, easier to distribute than they have ever been before. With a move toward digital content, I feel like chapbooks, which in many ways, have persisted because of their handmade-ness, the physicality of them, and as...
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a teaser
from my forthcoming collection, girl show (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
My dreams are populated by silver horses, loosened from their reigns and stomping through the azaleas.
read the rest @ La Petite Zine…
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Rob McLennan interviews me about the dancing girl press chapbook series at his blog.
June 2012
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new poems in stirring →
She’ll still be good in bed. Adept at karoake and drinking mai tais from glasses shaped like cats and dragons…
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a teaser from IHATEYOUJAMESFRANCO
Everyone has a secret life, even you James Franco. Perhaps you spend a lot of time staring at people and the sidewalk and wondering what dark little inner turmoil they have. I’m sure there’s mother issues just rattling around in there somewhere, or maybe a missing father, a broken engagement. Maybe even the dark black ribbon of neglect. Perhaps you deal with it by binge-eating Oreos...
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blackmail fantasy
On Thursday, I take a train to a town with a gas station and one stoplight. Wear a black coat and dream all night about wolves skirting the parking lots. My hope is a single bright balloon caught in January trees, a fakery, a delightful amnesia. Needless to say, you’ll do what I want because of the lingerie and possibly because I can fit an entire apple in my mouth without gagging. Still, I cry a...
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open letter to the muse
Dear alphabet. Dear spark.
My head is dull like a shell with the ocean in it. When you left me in the restaurant, I scoured the dictionary for days. Kissed men until my teeth hurt. Craved margaritas and the salt on the back of your neck. O my barbwire. My broken key. When you went south wearing my blackest dress, I looked in every hotel room from here to Knoxville. Cried in the shower. Found you...
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a house which is a kind of falling
The proliferation of s’s in your words make me jittery, which is to say, there are worse things than this weather. Me, I’ve been hiding objects in my mattress instead of burning them. Tiny glass kittens, dirty dishes. Writing love letters and stuffing it to the seams. Darling, I’m so dry these days I could turn to sand, but I have a plan, which is a sort of cartography ...
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from the care and feeding of mermaids
At first she will be hungry. A midwestern sort of hungry that will set her gorging on pretzel rolls and footlong hotdogs. Emptying the refrigerator of ketchup packets and tiny pats of margarine. Do not panic. It will be a midwestern sort of wanting when she looks at you, her lips chapping around her straw, filled with cracked riverbeds and sycamore trees. She will move you neighborhood by...
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