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Sunday, August 28 at 1 PM Central, 11 Pacific: Reading for Glass Lyre Press. Zoom link here.
August 8-12, 2022: I will be teaching an adult poetry workshop at Write On, Door County, in Wisconsin. More information here.
Friday, April 29, 2022 at 7 PM Central (5 PM Pacific): RHINO Reads, with Paul Tran and Teresa Dziegelwicz. Register here for the Zoom.
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“Storm” in The New Republic
My poem “Storm” appeared in the December 31, 2012, issue of The New Republic, embedded in Paul Starr’s review of The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver. Other poems in the issue: Benjamin Glassman’s “Sentimental Death Text Variation” and Allison Lemnos’ “Waiting … Continue reading
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Happy birthday, Baby T.
This is the kind of thing that delights a poet in the early twenty-first century: someone makes your poem part of a child’s first birthday celebration and writes about it on a blog.
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Swindle, the daily poetry aggregator
Via Slog, the Stranger‘s blog, a link to the online journal Linebreak‘s aggregator, Swindle, which daily collects poetry published on the Net and archives the links for seven days. They’re looking for more feeds, so drop them a line to suggest a site … Continue reading
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dA Center for the Arts Poetry Contest
dA Center for the Arts 2009 Poetry Contest David St. John, Judge First Prize: $250 Winner and Finalists will be invited to participate in an awards ceremony, reading, and reception at the dA Center for the Arts. The prize does … Continue reading
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Poems wanted for the 2009 Asian & Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Calendar
From a posting on LA CultureNet. The deadline is March 16: The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is a proud supporter of Los Angeles’ 2009 Asian & Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. This celebration will promote and … Continue reading
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 26-27
I’m thankful to be able to read all the lovely comments people have left about Felicia in the post below. If you’ve found this blog by searching for her name, please feel free to add your own comment. You can … Continue reading
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Marilyn Hacker appearing at Antioch next week!
Link to the poster with full details Marilyn Hacker will read at Antioch University Los Angeles on Saturday, March 8 at 5:30 PM in room A1000. (Antioch is all one building–next to a large parking structure!–so it’s very easy to visit. … Continue reading
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Unexpected places
Because my poem “Rope Bridge” takes as its starting place a well-known psychology experiment (Dutton and Aron, 1974), I occasionally run across mentions of it in social-science contexts such as this organizational behavior course . My friend Audrey Shafer (writer and … Continue reading
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