Today is the official book release day for The Erotic Postulate, my second full-length collection of poetry, and my second book with the fabulous Sibling Rivalry Press. It is also book release day for my pressmates Stephen S. Mills and Brent Calderwood, so happy book release day to all of us!
Stephen and I will be celebrating together this coming Saturday, September 20th, 3pm at Suite Bar & Lounge in NYC. Brent will also be holding a book release party on Saturday in San Francisco, 6:30pm at Modern Times Bookstore Collective. We hope to see many of you at our respective events, and if you miss us, we’ll be doing a bunch of readings in NYC and Boston the last two weeks of October, and then LA and San Francisco at the end of January/early February.
The Erotic Postulate has been long in coming–the poems in it were written between 2000-2004 and the earliest version of it as a book was my MFA thesis at the U. of Michigan. It’s been a bridesmaid a number of times along the way with book awards, but I’m okay with the delay; it made it a stronger manuscript in the end by giving me more time to revise and tweak. Now I understand Virginia Woolf’s advice to not publish a thing before age 30–I probably would be mortified if it had come out in its earliest incarnation.
So happy entering the public world day, little book. I look forward to reading from you and falling in love with your poems all over again.