Alsace-Lorraine

Things not to watch before you've swallowed your gulp of coffee

2012-02-03T07:06:00.003-05:00

I have to say, I would rather watch this (though I've been to open mics AND organized events that sounded like this and have had to pretend I wasn't feeling very well just so I could lay my head in my arms and hide my laughing face) and its quieter-but-equally-douchey dramatic-chanty cousin-styles than watch someone like -me- read -- timid and as though the words are fighting tooth-and-nail not

Groundhog kicks the Honey Badger's a-yass! Groundhog Don't Care!

2012-02-02T06:20:00.000-05:00

Part 2- The Unbearable Lightness of Being Way Cool

2012-02-01T21:31:00.000-05:00

1.) The Gloucester, MA cottage of an 89 year-old woman. (So beautiful. Look through the entire tour to appreciate how hard you're going to work in the next 50 years to make yourself as cool as this woman.) 2.) That one Swedish couple/Stockholm episode of House Hunters International. 3.) Lower Dens has a new album and I'm more convinced than ever that Jana Hunter is a musical god. I hope

Niedecked

2012-02-01T20:12:00.002-05:00

As the impulsive marriage testifies, Niedecker was by no means reclusive like Emily Dickinson, to whom she has often been compared. On the contrary, however bookish and intellectual she may have appeared to her friends and neighbours, she also seems to have inherited some of her father’s gregariousness and erotic energy. A loner in high school and later at Beloit, she especially loved being

reposting for niina p!

2012-01-30T07:31:00.001-05:00

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS It's Complicated: Feminists Write About the Misogynist Art We Loveed. Judy Berman and Niina Pollari "Listening to the Sex Pistols, trying to figure out if 'Bodies' was really an antiabortion song, I discovered that it was something even worse. It was an outburst of loathing for human physicality, a loathing projected onto women because they are babies and have abortions

The poet. Age 27 and seven eighths. Looking 37, maybe.

2012-01-29T20:42:00.003-05:00

You get the blurry version. But also the version in which the photographer (& that'd be M) finally said some something worth smiling about: "Just one more!"

Projective Industries (go'on and gitcha some)

2012-01-29T14:16:00.003-05:00

just checked my mail to find the most amazing little package: G.C. Waldrep's Szent László Hotel. Not only is the book positively FAT with verse, but it's a handsomely made AND it came wrapped like a birthday present. I'm doubly excited because Waldrep's name is one of those I see all over the flippin' place but I don't know much about (pardon my ignorance). So here is a 50+ page

Salt Ballads publication announcement from Hyacinth Girl Press

2012-01-27T17:37:00.001-05:00

may be read right here! Hyacinth Girl publishes some pretty original stuff, and so far no two chaps are alike. I'm excited- I'm pretending Edith would totally approve. The chapbook will not be available for a while, but you can start getting excited for it by reading translations in Poetry Magazine's archives and by ordering the upcoming issue of Burnside Review when it becomes available. <3

Luscious Veg!

2012-01-24T21:05:00.002-05:00

"...that separates them from the small potaters..." We try to eat veggies raw when we can, but there are some you simply cannot eat raw. No matter how much hummus you slather all over them. Some of our favorites to cook around here: turnips, Brussels sprouts, and good ol' brown-variety potatoes. This is how we do it. Where olive oil is called for, I use about third to half less than what's

Scenes from a notebook

2012-01-22T00:33:00.002-05:00

which I rediscovered in a junk drawer earlier this evening. I think the notebook is from late spring to late summer 2010, but it picks up again in December, 2010 when I was making lists of stuff I'd need for my new apartment. Anyway. Misspellings, ill-ogic, and all! What it looks like when I jot down something that's been on my mind (or when I really have been peeling leeches off my legs). You

revisiting favorite coffee in favorite coffee's mug

2012-01-21T12:24:00.005-05:00

Last night M and I went out at separate points within the same hour (he got dinner for us, I walked Loki). The meteorologists spent all morning/afternoon doing their best to scare the shit out of us with these "wintry mix, freezing rain, sleet, ice, don't die!" forecasts. The storm was nine hours late arriving, and when it did, it'd been reduced to an eerie, soft, slushy rainshower that made a

the REAL poetry

2012-01-19T11:53:00.001-05:00

Alphabetofyourlove.

2012-01-08T10:25:00.003-05:00

Thoughts and news. a.) Happy 2012. b.) My holidays were brilliant- hope yours were, too. c.) What's new with you? d.) These are my items for your agenda: d) I'm working toward veganism. This is difficult (no, really difficult): I am Midwest born-and-bred and dairy is my favorite food group. But it kills my stomach, ravages my complexion, and stuffs me up. Rather than "take a lactose

Little bitty children listen.

2011-12-18T18:44:00.002-05:00

Shit makes me so happy. Just sayin'. <3

So perfect I could spit.

2011-11-23T21:37:00.000-05:00

Inspiration Sources: Marimekko, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, Michigan State Flag, Finnish National Flag and the publisher's own spot-on perceptiveness.

Merry Loki.

2011-11-20T19:08:00.001-05:00

I'm sorry. I'm one of those pet owners who puts her pet in clothing. The difference might be that my dog thinks he's a person, so he really does enjoy wearing accessories and sweaters. When I took his sweater out of the utility closet last week, he danced around in a circle on his hind legs like he would if I were twirling a dog treat over his head. Bless his fool heart.

:)

2011-11-19T12:06:00.000-05:00

Notes on Fees

2011-11-15T00:26:00.007-05:00

I've been reading over this blog post by Gian Lombardo (it's been stuck on my screen all evening- I keep coming back to it, getting upset by it and taking a deep breath and walking away kinda thing- so, GL, if you have a site meter that says I've spent an age at your blog, I promise I've been doing other stuff, too. Eating dinner. Teaching a yoga class. Losing a job. [Really. It's been a long

On Wind 2

2011-11-14T12:10:00.000-05:00

The paper flies up then down as the wind repeats. repeats its birdsong. -Barbara Guest

On Wind 1

2011-11-13T16:32:00.000-05:00

The earth is a place for warriors And for the grace of winds, a steady grace which When it forms, forms only what is still. -Bernadette Mayer * It's very windy this weekend. I'm pretty sure the winds are bringing winter. Late this past week, we had snow. Today's back up to 68 degrees. Makes it difficult to determine what-scarf, if-tights. Everyone's waiting for the first icy blast, but

"We are freshwater people..."

2011-11-11T13:49:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday, Mr. Vonnegut!

Schweeeet!

2011-11-06T09:11:00.002-05:00

My poem, 11:39AM, Grand Haven, has been nominated for a Pushcart! It's my first nomination. Maybe it will be my only-ever nomination-- I'm honored to be considered and, on more of a personal note, I'm pleased that this particular poem was given this distinction. It's a poem I'm really nuts about. When I first wrote it, I let it sit for a few months and ended up removing maybe half of the parts

recent favorites

2011-11-05T11:03:00.000-04:00

Quickly, adventures in lit journal reading: 1. First I want to say that the November issue of Poetry is so amazing. Seriously, I think it's my favorite issue ever. The poem "If" by John Rybicki was the first one I opened to and it kinda stopped me in my tracks. It was nice to feel stopped. There was a lot of this stopping and re-reading in this issue. Mostly, they were poems that I would

Reading

2011-10-31T19:25:00.001-04:00

Here is a video of my reading at the Cultural Society 'do. I (like basically anyone) dislike seeing myself on film, but since I was so nervous about reading that I barely remember having actually done it, I am happy to have a little memento for sure. Big thanks to ma fellas in the front row (M, Matt and Steven) for being so easygoing and smiley. I remember that much. Everyone else beyond them

We'd like to text you a Happy Halloween.

2011-10-30T18:58:00.000-04:00

Stalling writing.

2011-10-26T12:26:00.000-04:00

You know that thing that happens when you have so many projects "due" in a few days that you actually take a vacation day from your day job to fell them all in one swoop but you end up cleaning your apartment and listening to post-but-pre-neo-psychedelic rock, instead? <3

Hearts are not made up.

2011-10-23T21:14:00.000-04:00

Sink Review 8

2011-10-18T13:23:00.001-04:00

Go see my poem about Grand Haven (last year... but, basically, it was the same Grand Haven this year) at sinkreview.org. See also poets Eric Amling, Nathan Austin, Jason Bredle, Molly Brodak, Francesca Chabrier, Jackie Clark, Marisa Crawford, Ian Dreiblatt, Garth Graeper, Ben Fama, Brian Foley, Kate Greenstreet, Ben Pease, Leigh Stein, and Mathias Svalina. If you see them all right now, you'll

"I like nature that dwarfs me."

2011-10-16T19:33:00.000-04:00

"The Slide" at Shades.

I bought myself a little present

2011-10-14T19:01:00.002-04:00

to celebrate my week. Actually, we're going camping now and that's kind of a celebration, too, ifyouaskme. You should see what I bought, though, in case you get inspired to celebrate your own amazingness. Paige Taggart is having a half-off sale on her jewelry. Of course, I bought the one that reminds me of all my favorite sailors. <3 Go read Paige's work in the latest Interrupture, where she

Best Week Ever kinda thing.

2011-10-13T07:43:00.000-04:00

New York was really lovely. I keep trying to put in a few pictures, but they're showing up sideways. Then I came home and found out I'll be included in Poetry Magazine's centennial anthology. I think the idea is something like 100 years, 100 poems. Which is kind of ridiculous when you consider who has been in that magazine in the past 100 years. So look for that in 2012 from the University of

NYC

2011-10-03T18:12:00.000-04:00

So come see me here, probably in the four o'clock hour (give or take), reading with quite an amazing group of poets in honor of The Cultural Society's birthday. Like, so amazing that I truly wish I could just take a seat in the back and watch the entire thing anonymously because I'll probably be stifling bug-eyes and fangirl squeals. (No, seriously.) I need you there to remind me that it's not

New Interrupture

2011-10-02T11:07:00.000-04:00

w/ work by Dana Oldfather, Sampson Starkweather, John Gallaher, Brooklyn Copeland, Ben Kopel and Matthew Suss, Rob MacDonald, Matthew Gavin Frank, Sarah Bartlett, Eric Lemay, Charmi Keranen, Charlotte Seley, Matthew Johnstone, Dustin Luke Nelson, Adam Tavel and Jon Cone, Iain Britton, Paige Taggart, Phil Estes, and Anna Rosen Guerico. My favorites so far are the pieces by Oldfather and Britton

ES (via SK)

2011-10-01T10:59:00.000-04:00

Nobody can deny that my writing is poetry; I will not claim that it is verse. I have tried to impose a certain rhythm on some poems and in that connection found that I only possess the power of word and image under complete freedom, i.e., at the expense of rhythm. My poems are to be taken as careless sketches. As to the contents, I let my instincts build while my intellect watches. My

So far a rainy fall.

2011-09-25T12:54:00.000-04:00

The boys of summer. Ignoring fall this morning. I love Sundays at home. Here's what: 5 Minute Vegan Pancakes. DIY no-sew wrap. Progressive Heavies record (which I bought from the $1 bin along with some Queen and Roxy Music at the James Dean Festival up in Fairmount yesterday). We listened to this while we ate pancakes this morning. It's a really sweet mix. 2PM yoga. Featuring dolphin pose

Reading Poetry.

2011-09-20T21:11:00.001-04:00

So I got my October issue of Poetry today. The plus side: there were essays in there by non-poets on poetry that were better than any of the poems I've read so far in the issue (including the Armantrout-- I always feel like I'm *supposed* to like every single thing she does, and, trust me, I play this mind-game with myself where I try to trick myself into it-- but she's kinda hit or miss for me

At the ripe ol' age of 27.5

2011-09-19T18:40:00.001-04:00

I do not deserve 8 stars at Coldfront, but I will cherish every one of them. Thank you for the kindness and the insight and for spreading the word about what a fine product alice blue turns out in-print. <3 Copeland mixes natural observation with (perhaps) confessional verse about a relationship between the speaker and the “you” that suddenly appears—and then dominates—the experience. This

Love me right & you will never ever starve.

2011-09-18T10:20:00.000-04:00

Get thy bearings.

2011-09-17T23:41:00.000-04:00

"the zero degree noiselessness of death"

2011-09-10T10:19:00.002-04:00

Someone got here by Googling the title phrase. CREEPER. :) I'm so busy. I'm too busy to blog properly. Every weekday I get up at 6, get ready to go to my full-time dayjob, then from that (at 5PM) I go to part-time job (which usually involves me getting plenty of exercise, so I don't complain), then I come home when M comes home between 8 and 9 and I have about three hours of either packing/

O no dear that's where you're wrong.

2011-09-02T18:24:00.001-04:00

On the Friday of a very emotional, exhausting week that ultimately brought me slightly closer to the one I love, emotionally and physically (as in, he is now installed and his laundry is my laundry and my sleep is his sleep and we get kicked in the legs by the same cocker spaniel). Love is raw sometimes. Sometimes you look at your man and you think, "What if we aren't on the same page?"

One more.

2011-08-29T23:34:00.001-04:00

Since I'm always comparing poems I like (or don't like) to things that are not poems. Since it came onto the scene (and slipped away... after countless knock-offs, including the one I purchased from the Burlington Coat Factory) I have loved this suit. And some of my very favorite poetry has reminded me of it. An antiquey take on the classic Chanel suit hit the runway, as tweeds in grey, nude

On a morning I am bombarded, frazzled and considering a drop of Tanqueray in my whey smoothie.

2011-08-24T11:46:00.001-04:00

But some fun things you might-probably already know about: Shira Dentz's interview on The Rumpus: Back to “Patriarch Sky” for a moment—I felt that representations of the female body/sexuality that are all over our media, including billboards, seep into our consciousnesses and become our sky, so to speak, and control women through the conflicting responses these representations provoke in

This week last year.

2011-08-22T11:32:00.003-04:00

This week last year I in a car accident that caused more damage to my car than my car (which was brand new this week last year) was worth. This was the day before I was going up to Grand Haven, which I am doing this week this year in a few days. Then, this week last year, I went into the hospital for my P.E. This week last year I wrote one of my favorite poems I've ever written. Then I didn't

Lau Nau for you and me.

2011-08-17T20:59:00.000-04:00

his copper arm / made to curve

2011-08-16T22:39:00.001-04:00

To pick up where I left off in the last post (O? Suppose you'll just have to read it, won't you, then?), go read this new online journal (brimming with new perfectly tangible verse), Loaded Bicycle- especially this (and another) by Idra Novey: Across the way, God the Bandit has his copper back to the garden, his copper arm made to curve as if it were escaping into the earth. You'll also find

Stuff to dig when you aren't really hip the New Irreverence but like a little cream in your coffee just the same.

2011-08-13T08:52:00.001-04:00

Jason Morris in Puppyflowers 11 goes something like this: This one went in a little blue book, on the cover I wrote “THE FEELING OF RECOGNIZING A PERFECTLY OBVIOUS EXPLANATION,” Sad examination write it backwards, fit in living & sitKeep your boots tight, clobbered by sunlight. It (The Sun)feels comfortable, going in my ear giving us over to order again Barbara Maloutas at Tarpaulin Sky had

This is how I dance. But usually without shoes and with extra headbands and deodorant.

2011-08-11T21:57:00.002-04:00

So hot.

Life's so peachy when you're keen, jelly bean.

2011-08-10T19:01:00.002-04:00

I want you to go read this great interview with Jennifer Denrow, author of the book that gave me nightmares the first night I read it. I love this interview because Jennifer makes spot-on, intuitive sense, the same way her book makes spot-on, intuitive sense. If you don't know what I mean by that, I mean: "The gloriously roariously human-to-human strand of intelligence that comes out on paper

You sound like a hillbilly / we want folk singers here.

2011-08-09T22:34:00.000-04:00

People love this meditation track.

2011-08-08T18:34:00.001-04:00

Usually in my yoga classes I read poetry (yeah, probably your poetry) when people are settling into savasana/relaxation. I came across this piece somewhere (probably on Last.FM, which I sometimes leave running while I read/edit) and have used it in place of reading (you can't read over the voices)- I swear, people melt over it. I've always been asked what it's called, who it is, how I found it.

3 Cheap Gifts (Happy Unbirthday to me!)

2011-08-07T21:27:00.000-04:00

Not everything cool and inexpensive comes with a shipping and handling charge and an Etsy feedback survey (no offense- you know I love my Etsy sprees). I recently in-person purchased these amazing(ly cheap) finds and want to recommend them. Wholeheartedly and openhandedly. Disclaimer: since I am 27.5 years old, "cheap" means less than $20. I only give gifts to people I love or want to thank for

Irresponsible Reviews for the Casual Reader: Joshua Ware

2011-08-07T10:45:00.009-04:00

For an explanation, see this one. I should emphasize that the words "irresponsible" and "casual" aren't meant to bring down the property value of the publishing press or the author of the book. They're more a reflection of my knee-jerk mind-flex heart-strung first-order style of reading and reacting to a book. Personally, I think that's more fun (and helpful) than an overly intellectualized

Vuyelwa Carlin

2011-08-01T21:06:00.003-04:00

I'm having one of my "excuse me, you're amazing" minutes just now. Why aren't more people talking about her?? Did you know about this poet?? I didn't! I can't wait to dig in! Read more Vuyelwa Carlin. Buy her stuff. (From the source. Or if you're poor stick her name in your Amazon search bar the way I did.)

Quality Quantified :: Chicagotimes

2011-08-01T19:58:00.000-04:00

#marymarywhyyabuggin *1 We had a really great time in Chicago. Luckily, the Printers' Ball was on Friday night (which is when we got into town and in any social state after hiking all the way up to Rogers Park to our rented apartment) (which was really sweet, ps- if you're want a place to stay, use airbnb and use Colleen!) because it gave us all of Saturday and Sunday to be lazy, city-style (

My favorite novelist. Sounding like a tit.

2011-07-23T22:45:00.001-04:00

"Let us sit down, smoke our mariHUAnah- an admirable thing in itself but not the end of anything--" What a sweet old man.

Peaceful Cohabitation Between Two I-Need-My-Space Types.

2011-07-23T17:02:00.003-04:00

Can it happen? In 660 square feet? Keep your fingers crossed! :) M is spending the next week packing and moving stuff over. We are in Chicago from Friday to Sunday- the last days of his lease on his own apartment. The last time I was there, he hadn't moved so much as a fork out of the bathroom (yeah, you read that correctly). I'm refusing to go over there until it's desperate-crunch-time (I've

Leafy greens and losing weight.

2011-07-20T07:15:00.001-04:00

Did you know it's been in the upper 90s here all week? It's probably been that hot where you are, too. My electricity bill was 30 dollars more last month than usual. It might be 30 dollars more than that this month. That's okay because in the winter time, I don't mind freezing. I figure it balances out. As of a few days ago, I've been a practicing vegetarian for a month. It's been a month of

The Monday of my inner 14 year-old. xo

2011-07-18T22:23:00.000-04:00

Just sayin!

2011-07-17T20:26:00.001-04:00

I'm sorry, but Roseanne Conner was a great mom. Kirsten Dunst has cute teeth but is an awful actress. Scarlett Johansson doesn't even have cute teeth. That Mumford & Sons song with the words "fucked it up" and "my dear" is really lame, even more lame when you're in a place where everyone starts singing it passionately all together. I always think "d-bag" when I see someone holding a Miller

Brown eyes.

2011-07-16T18:00:00.000-04:00

If you sit on my porch I will offer you a drink and tell you all about it.

2011-07-10T21:26:00.002-04:00

Last night M and I ducked over to his grandmother's cottage on the same lake to get some firewood. She was still up, so we went inside and talked. She's 92 years old and one of the sharpest, kindest people over the age of 60 that I know. I don't really have "grandparents" in my life. I love other peoples'. I don't remember the last time I met one so old who was so with-it. Once she realized she

People like to rib me

2011-07-08T09:46:00.001-04:00

by calling me both "Ayn Rand" and "Pollyanna." My own boyfriend hascalled me both in the exact same conversation.I don't claim either character. I outgrew Ayn Rand in high school justlike you did. And Pollyanna's just plain obnoxious.But I like to think that I get called both because people recognizethat I expect the world to fend for itself, and I'm ever-optimisticthat it *can.*I think this

Yoga Playlist

2011-07-07T12:10:00.001-04:00

It's floaty and accessible and pleasant (lots of pretty coverversions). My class last night loved it, if you're looking for afloaty, accessible, pleasant Thursday mix.Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - "Around My Smile"Trespassers William - "Red"Arthur H and Feist - "La chanson de Sattie"Harry Nilsson - "Mother Nature's Song"Lindsey Buckingham - "I Am Waiting"Fiona Apple - "Across the

Cell phone vignettes

2011-06-26T09:13:00.000-04:00

The Ballad of John and Yoko

2011-06-23T12:09:00.001-04:00

I'm posting this here, too, because some people who read this aren'tfollowing/friendly on the other social networking timesucks! Theschedule's filling up for the Chicago stay, but I would still love tosee you! We're there for the Printers' Ball, but we're getting inFriday night and will be in the city through Sunday late afternoon.That's July 29th and 30th.And we just booked our fall trip- which

Irresponsible Reviewing for the Casual Reader

2011-06-19T10:37:00.000-04:00

I've received some meaty stuff in the mail recently. And I've received some of it not-so recently and I've received some of it lately but it's not new stuff. It's been a busy reading season. I think it's important to "review" stuff even if it isn't brand new. These days, if a book from 2007 stands up quality-of-content-wise in 2011, it's pretty amazing. I know the just-published period is the

Look at this amazing thing someone said about my poems.

2011-06-16T21:45:00.000-04:00

Freke Räihä wrote an incredibly nice review of Laked, Fielded, Blanked for Tidningen Kulturen. I was, like, OMG, really?!I'm a fan of the little pink chit he's got posing on the cover! ---Don't neglect to order a copy, my dears. It's a sweet little book. It will bring couples closer together. The stars and the moon and continents, too. And that's before you've even read any of the poetry.

Did you know about Anne Shaw?

2011-06-06T22:21:00.000-04:00

Until this week, I did not know about Anne Shaw. Now I'm all, like, "Holy Anne Shaw!" I'm so late to these parties. But I'm glad I found out about Anne Shaw. I just ordered her book from 2007. I wish I could twitch my nose and make it appear two minutes ago. In the meantime, if you did not know about Anne Shaw, you need to read these poems. Don't worry, there won't be a quiz. Night in the

Habits and Practices and Poetry

2011-06-05T09:41:00.004-04:00

Yeah Hi. I'm so sure this is my horoscope today: Even if you're already eating organically and practicing yoga, it may be time to make minor improvements to your daily regimen. This means you, Brooklyn Copeland, the Eve of your Departure for the Madsite of Sin that is Bonnaroo. (Naw. I threw that last sentence in there.) (Seriously, though. What does it mean? I run five times a week. I

Horse Less Review #9

2011-06-03T08:28:00.001-04:00

I got to peek at this to check my proofs, and OMG. It's MASSIVE. And so full of A-Game. The whole thing flows so beautifully and is so dense with high-level grounded in real-level and so much space on the page and so much mot juste-ing and bothering-to-articulate-precisely and self-seriousness without the hangover. Even poets who I usually gloss over absolutely captivated me (I don't feel bad

Laked, Fielded, Blanked is NOW available from Alice Blue Books!

2011-06-02T12:57:00.001-04:00

I got copies last night and MAN are they lovely! If you go here:http://www.alicebluereview.org/books/copelandchap.html :you can order one for your very own. So please do. Amber Nelson worked long and hard on those suckers. No lie. And I slaved over the poems contained therein. For years. YEARS. Mmmhmm. I don't know how to tell you about my excitement about all this. I'm so happy with this work

Translatin'

2011-06-01T15:17:00.001-04:00

The June (translation) issue of Poetry went live today. In it, you can find some short translations (by me) of Edith Sodergran. You can also listen to the Podcast of the issue (as you can every other recent issue), and you can hear me reading the poems. And in between reading the poems, and the editors' smart commentary (they're so lovely! omg!) you can hear me elaborate-- again (as in, compared

One method.

2011-05-31T22:33:00.002-04:00

"Say you or I better to filter sand through voice and grit crunch" -Mark Dickinson

Yes You May

2011-05-25T15:35:00.000-04:00

Are you the spring / are you the mess. Are you the concerned neighbor with the pretty way with words. Were you drunk. Are you the box that makes me laugh every time I go to buy cereal. Are you the peanut butter batter. Are you the dog recovering nicely. Are you an accessory to my navy-blue-shirt-dress obsession. Are you the view over the first cup of coffee. Are you one of

Things

2011-05-18T07:01:00.004-04:00

a.) Loki is sick. I had to take him to the animal hospital Sunday because he starting screaming bloody murder when I took out for his morning dump. He never does that. He's dramatic sometimes, pathetic, yes. But he doesn't complain unnecessarily about his comfort. He's kept it up till this morning (he's right now curled up in my spot on the bed, of course)- we'll see how he does today. I feel

Filters Subconscious and Intentional

2011-05-15T10:37:00.008-04:00

Last week, I received three very different publications which, upon lining them in my pile, made me realize just how overriding (?) my "place" filter is when buying and reading new poetry. Even in my from-the-hip reviews, I tend to remark upon the setting (or the sense of setting, with which I sometimes have to grapple or even invent for myself if the poet has been negligent). The "where" is how

Something's on your mind.

2011-05-08T22:57:00.000-04:00

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Big Mamas everywhere, happy day to you! (& some news!)

2011-05-08T10:23:00.001-04:00

I have a cake in the oven for mine. She wanted a peanut butter cake this year-- I have never made a peanut butter cake (icing, sure), and didn't have much time this weekend to find a good recipe. So I swallowed some snobbery and went with a recipe that got reviews that describe a cake like my mother would flip out over- it happens to be a doctored box mix cake. Ugh. (Just recently, I was at M's

TAIGA A Five Dolla Holla!

2011-05-07T12:10:00.001-04:00

As mentioned, in honor of springtime and in TAIGA going out to Brooklyn to be among some really lovely books in Farrah Field and Jared White's Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Issue A is on sale for FIVE buck$ pp. Get yourself one while the sale/supplies last... You can go to taigajournal.com to find out more about the issue. Unsolicited submissions will be invited from poets who order a copy.

A sincerely satirical note upon watching my bf avoid my rainbowgasmic Anthropologie salt cellar at dinner.

2011-05-07T09:03:00.000-04:00