A birthday post to round-up the latest news and happenings:
The big news is that I’ve signed the contract for my second release from Sibling Rivalry Press, The Erotic Postulate. It will be out in September 2014 along with Stephen Mills’ second book, Brent Calderwood’s first book, and Douglas Ray’s anthology of queer Southern writing. It will be an epic week for poetry, and I look forward to the readings and events the four of us will cook up to promote the titles.
A bit about The Erotic Postulate: it’s technically my first book, the first poetry mss I ever completed. It grew out of my MFA thesis at Michigan and the core poems in the book were awarded the Hopwood at UM. The book’s been long in coming: it was a finalist for the National Poetry Series back in 2005 and then went on to be a bridesmaid in contest after contest. When it makes its debut next year, it will have been 10 years since I completed the project. I haven’t re-read the book in a while, and have resisted the urge to, so that when galley time comes I can really re-live those poems again and see how I relate to them at this point in my life. And I’m excited to work with Bryan at SRP again. Watching Skin Shift come into being as a book was a magical experience, and I already feel the tingles when we start to talk about the direction we want to go with TEP.
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There’s a new review of Skin Shift by Tory Adkisson over at The Rumpus.
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An upcoming reading: Tuesday, July 30th, Sibling Rivalry Press will be featured in the Word for Word reading series at Bryant Park. I’ll be reading with Bryan Borland, Seth Pennington, Stephen Mills, D Period Gilson, Joanna Hoffman, and Collin Kelley. Bryant Park is a few blocks from my office. I’ve seen so many readings there over my years living in NY, it’s exciting to finally be on the other side of the microphone. And it’s Bryan Borland’s birthday that day, so come celebrate!
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Dear Marilyn: happy birthday to us. xo