Live Every Day Like It Begins With a Walk of Shame Press

Here are the intros from the last Bad Shadow Affair reading of the season:

When I read Kathy Goodkin’s poems I feel like I’m a five year old in love with all the things most adults can no longer access. I think this has to do with a willingness to interact with wonder instead of stifling it with names. Her poems play TV tag and Red Rover with ghost-soldiers. But these poems don’t just hang out in the playground, they’re slipping into the woods behind the gym to smoke, they’re changing outfits in the bathroom stall, they’re beheading daffodils like an early frost before the first bell rings. Kathy’s poems access the unpredictability of movement, they are the eyes blinking at you from within the recess of a black tree.
Link: http://www.jetfuelreview.com/?page_id=1094

Laura Eve Engel’s poems rub up against you but not like a cat does to your leg. More like a new kind of planet made from the vapors of snake venum, ransacked museums, the breath you use to melt the ice in the keyhole. This new kind of planet does not hesitate or demur; its proximity will scare astronomers and astrologers, politicians and businessmen. But not you, you who let this planet press letters into your back with its meteoric fingers, spelling out how admission is different than confession as a thousand milkweeds explode.
Link: http://www.inknode.com/users/lauraeve
I love this one: http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/features/you-love-desperately/

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Jennifer Pilch sent me this painting by Clare Grill and I LOVE IT because it's within a frame and too much all at once:

You Just Got PreSchooled Press

Just found this poem written by a 4th grader from when I did Writers in the Schools in 2010. Kids are the best poets:

Ode to Hammocks
By Jake

Hammocks have the insane power to cure thoughts
like surgeons can fix a patient.
Hammocks are a rainbow of colors in the sky.
A hammock is a pirate ship on the open sea.
Hammocks are like a tough spider web.
A Hammock can catch prey and hold the prey
for hours like a prison can hold prisoners.
Hammocks are my favorite place to be.

Something like Springtime Press

Shadow play / friends on planet Mars / backyard necklace siesta:

Entrance for Crushers Only

Thanks to Sampson Starkweather, Paige Taggart, Ben Mirov, and Selah Saterstrom for reading at our Bad Shadow Affair series last night. You crushed it.

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This is what it looks like when I get ready for an interview with all my notes:


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I have the word honkytonk stuck in my head. Yes, it's one word.

Olga NightPony Press

Have a chalky poem on a blackboard up here:
http://www.flying-object.org/2013/04/its-my-decision-41/
Thanks, Flying Object (And Guy Pettit & Keith Newton). I believe I tagged Andrea Rexilius so a poem of hers should be up on this site soon, too.

Wonder Was Born in 1914 & Died in 1981 Press

Sommer Browning took me to a diner & then the oldest cemetery in Denver. Then we spent some time in a Walgreen's parking lot before meeting up with the lovely poets Jennifer Denrow, Kathy Goodkin, Tina Celona to go to the Walnut Room and the Mile High Distillery. How are so many awesome writers in Denver? Glory, clearly.

Did I Lend You My Copy of Beasts of The Southern Wild? Because I Need It Back, Please Press

I hope you come to these two events today. Because an audience would make the event noticeably better:



Renowned poet and critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis will visit Denver University tomorrow Wednesday, April 10. We are very excited to have her. She will give a talk and reading. Hope to see you there!


Talk - 4pm: On Drafts, Sturm Hall 281

Reading - 8pm: Sturm Hall 281


Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the author of the long poem Drafts, begun in 1986, and collected recently in two books from Salt Publishing-- The Collage Poems of Drafts (2011), Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (2010). Her newest book is Surge: Drafts 96-114 , published by Salt in 2013. Transcending poetic schools and binaries in poetics with an odic verve and analytic intensity, Surge is the provocative, open-ended ending to Drafts, DuPlessis's twenty-six year project in the long poem.

Other volumes include Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004). Her recent book Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2012) is part of a trilogy of works about gender and poetics that includes The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice and Blue Studios: Poetry and its Cultural Work, both from University of Alabama Press. She has published three other critical books on modern poetry, fiction and gender, eight other books of poetry, and three co-edited anthologies as well as editing The Selected Letters of George Oppen. She has been awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a residency for poetry at Bellagio, and has held an appointment to the National Humanities Center. DuPlessis is Professor Emerita of English at Temple University.

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I teach during the reading but I will be there for the talk.

New Denver Quarterly TOC is being copy edited. The latest issue, Spring 47.3, should be romping inside your mailbox right now. I need to update the DQ website this week.