PRESS Breaking the Ice With Pints and Poetry @Wall Street Journal The first hour involved cocktails at the Housing Works Bookstore and Café in SoHo. Then there were readings by Colson Whitehead (“Sag Harbor”), Emily St. John Mandel (“The Singers Gun”) and poet Amy King, who runs a popular poetry group on Goodreads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 20…
The WOM-PO (Discussion of Women’s Poetry) List was started in December 1997 by Annie Finch with an invitation to a small group of poets, critics, and lovers of women’s poetry. These people in turn invited other people to join, and the list has grown into a well-regarded international listserve by spreading through these networks. In…
BlazeVOX [books] & Its Poets: An Offsite, Really Hip, unAWP Reading: Thursday, March 1, 2012 6:00 pm until 8:30 p.m Revolving Door presents a spectacular sampling of BlazeVOX poets … setting out to dazzle 100% of the masses–that’s 99% + 1%. Among the poets who will prove themselves worthy sparks of divinity are: Amanda Auchter…
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Articles (click titles) on The Count @ VIDA: 1.) The Lack of Female Bylines in Magazines Is Old News – Katha Pollitt @ Slate 2.) Being Female — Eileen Myles @ The Awl 3.) How To Publish Women Writers: A Letter to Publishers about the VIDA Count — Annie Finch @ Her Circle 4.)…
Watch the Kathleen Hanna clip. Read the manifesto. I can’t help it. I keep saying I won’t write this post. It’s not worth it, I’ll appear rude, my knowledge is limited, etc. But I’ve decided to put it out there, after a cursory read and setting the book aside in annoyance. The Gurlesque anthology, GURLESQUE:…
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 7:00PM-10:00PM Dusie Pussipo Stonecoast Femiganza Location: at Packing House Center for the Arts, 835 E. 50th Ave. Denver, CO 80216 Cost: FREE! Everybody welcome! Website: http://controlgroupproductions.org/ Featuring: Bronwen Tate, Ann Bogle, Jennifer Karmin, Marthe Reed, Annie Finch, Amy King, Cara Benson, Mackenzie Carignan, Danielle Pafunda, Deborah Poe, Ana Bozicevic, Teresa Carmody,…
“Amy King” Doll So I commissioned a woman artist, Beth Robinson, to make dolls of Ana and me to christen our new home. Robinson’s work has begun to be featured in galleries and written about in art publications. Not sure the photos do them justice — in person, they just rock. If you’re…
Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 6:30 p.m. Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street — Room 510 New York, NY WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) presents readings along with a panel discussion on the state of women’s literature today. Participants, all of whom…
WHETTING EXCERPTS: …In queer poetry, desire blooms, and yes, I may just marry my dog— …Beyond that debate, we remain, in all our queerness, anomalies writing aloud the unimagined territories that language spearheads and explores. They may fear adventure in my world, but I inhabit theirs in multiple ways—and am them. …Queer poets especially locate…
Please don’t take another long drag on your ciggie and nonchalantly claim that the editors of Publisher’s Weekly didn’t know they were selecting books solely by men for their Top 10 Best Books of 2009. I will hurl dragon fire and burn your little house of cards down. One need only peruse the “brief reviews”…
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CONTEMPORARY QUEER POETS Grow this list – Proliferate! Redistribute! I initially started this list as one for contemporary queer poets, but it has grown to include the living and the dead, the post-poet, the fiction and non-fiction, the bent, the bendable, and more. Thanks to all who’ve contributed so far! Please feel free to add…
VISIT EOAGH NOW! A PANEL, READING, & EXHIBITION CHARLES OLSON: LANGUAGE AS PHYSICAL FACT Tenney Nathanson Cole Swensen Steve McCaffery Barbara Henning Anne Waldman A CHAPBOOK Nothing is in Here, by Andrew Levy READINGS/ARTICLES An Interview with Kevin Killian, by Tony Leuzzi TEXT FOR A CUL-DE-SAC, by Wystan Curnow & Lawrence Weiner The Functional Art…
[YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpteWcREVVA] NOT JUST FOR THE LADIES, THINKING GUYS DIG IT TOO! One of the few kick-ass feminist publications produced by and for a younger generation, here’s their mission: Mission We seek to be a fresh, revitalizing voice for feminism, one that welcomes complex arguments, showcases witty and whip-smart critiques of popular culture, and refuses to…
Next Year’s Judge, Prof. & Poet, Ms. Lucille Clifton (Drop her a line, someone? Pass the link on below.) Well, with one press in particular. Anyone have similar experiences with contests and publishing? Consider an excerpt from the account of Stacey Lynn Brown: “Anyway, back to my story. Everything was hunky dory with this press,…
The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series is all ready to rumble! By that I mean our reading schedule for the rest of the year has been finalized. Let’s take a peek at July’s line-up but without the pictures that you get to see at The Stain of Poetry blog: July 25th @ 7 p.m.…
I have just updated the GOODREADS ¡POETRY! Group with some new folders that include: INTRODUCTIONS ~~~ MY BOOK / POEM IS PUBLISHED! ~~~ ADVICE – QUESTION FOR YA! ~~~ I APPRECIATE POETRY CRITIQUE ~~~ YOU’VE GOTTA READ THIS POEM! ~~~ CALLS FOR WORK – SUBMIT! ~~~ POETRY WRITING SUGGESTIONS ~~~ PLEASE HELP ~~~ RECOMMENDED BOOKS…
I am teaching a Writing Poetry course this July, and while I have a curriculum in place, I’d like to change things up a bit and try out some exercises that have worked well for others, which is where you come in. Plus, there are PRIZES! * My students will range in age from 18…
AMY KING 