In 2015, I worked with the chair of English & Comparative Literature Department, Joanna Brooks, to develop a “Creative Publishing & Editing” minor. I expanded the “practical… Read more “Literary Publishing & Editing Minor”
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Poetry International
Here’s some nice words folks have had for Poetry International:
“It’s like diving for pearls in pearl-infested waters.” – Fady Joudah
“Just got the most beautiful copy! This is a magnificent collection, one of a kind! Thank you so much!” —Juan Felipe Herrera
The Narrators
“There was a lot about the cycle I couldn’t tell by looking at it—like, how the rain would soak the seat through that slash in the faux leather, and I’d have a wet ass for a month. And how the chain would pop off the chain-ring unpredictably, and I’d get grease on my hands from resetting it. All I knew was that I loved that bike the second I saw it. My Polish angel explained that it was NOT guaranteed: after I pedaled it off the lot, I was on my own. 35 Euro. Sold.”–from Bicycles, Beer, and the Body
Magee Park Poets, 2015
Check out two videos from this reading in 2015, “Gemini’s ginned up as if for war–” and “America.”
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“Your ass in that chair, / there on the patio in the dark of a Wednesday, / bark of the bougainvillea eaten silent by loopers…”
