Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Linebreaking

You can read my poem, "Poem for the Adoptive Mother" this week on Linebreak, as read by Chloƫ Honum. Linebreak is a great new online poetry journal and has recently featured work by Bob Hicok, Dorianne Laux, Daniel Nester, D.A. Powell, Richard Siken, C. Dale Young, and others. Check it out!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

News! News!

I haven't blogged in forever -- I've been so incredibly busy with finishing my lecture and creative thesis for Bennington (I'm graduating in June!). I also got hired to teach comp classes at Lone Star College and am looking to teach in a certain low-residency MFA program, hopefully in early 2009. The biggest news, however, is that my manuscript, Glossolalia, was just named as a finalist for the Alice James Books 2008 Beatrice Hawley Book Award!

I'm going next Saturday to Austin to see my friend and PLR contributing editor Rebecca Wadlinger's stunning full-length play "No One Else in the Woods Tonight," which will be performed at the Off Center in conjunction with the Humdrum Collective. If you're in/near Austin, come see it!

Last night was the Gulf Coast/Mary Ruefle reading at the Houston Museum of Printing History. MR read a mix of nonfiction and poems and put on a great performance. New issues of GC, free beverages, and broadsides all around. Have you checked out MR's newest collection, Indeed I Was Pleased With the World?