I had a great time hanging out with Evan Burger for this interview. Apparently I give very little context in verbal conversation. Hm!
I made a video to go with a poem on Jubliat! Sources: Billion Backed Records, Jeweled Queen, Chuck Jones, and Oprah!
Here are the slides from my craft talk at the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival! That was FUN!
"Solar Punk" is what's been missing from my life! It very well might help me manage the constant anxiety and cynicism I have about the demise of our planet. Consider kicking in a few bucks to get the ball rolling on this anthology, edited by two very cool Iowa State CWE students, then we can all submit to it!
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I've long been a fan of Jubilat and am honored to be in the new issue with Ana Božičević, Kaveh Akbar, Anne Boyer, Camille Rankine and many more bada$$es.
My day at the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was a cavalcade of awesomeness. My talk on humor in poetry had a good crowd including Tim Seibles and David Tomas Martinez. I didn't know RuPaul was talking behind me on a slide the whole time.
Kimiko Hanh woke us up and gave me a million things to think about. Can't wait to try writing my first zuihitsu. Then a wonderful reading by students from all over the state. My fave title: "I am a Dodecahedron" (Booyah!)
Then a cosmic panel on the body with Robin Coste Lewis, Jericho Brown and my NYU guru Mark Doty. Then Robin's reading of a lifetime (I didn't cry but almost did), which I had to follow :S, then Jericho and Mark shared the stage. I mean WHAT?!
Got to meet the lovely Ellen Bass, too! Thank you, Marie and Jen and Jeffrey McDaniel, for having me and for putting on such a WONDERFUL festival. I lived a lifetime of poetry in a day, and, to quote Jericho, I am so very grateful.
Poems don't write themselves. Somebody's got to do it, and this summer, it could be you. Dive into poetry writing with an 8-week course for all skill levels.
Every Wednesday from 7-8, we'll read and discuss poems by exciting contemporary poets on a variety of themes, then we'll write poems (or drafts of poems that can be revised later) based on prompts and share our work. This will be a safe, supportive space in which we will be feel free to tap into our secret wells of creative irrationality. We'll cover a new topic in every session including venues for publishing your work.
After the last class on June 29, we'll have an open mic DMSC at which you can share your poems with an audience. Take 1 class or all 8. Single sessions are $15 each; sign up for all 8 at a discount price of $100.
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Thank you, Molly Schultz, for this great article about last night's reading in the Daily! You rock!
