Hello rosebuds,
June’s gloom has big plans for us and I have plans tonight to read poetry for the Hatchet Job reading series with my best girl, Anna North, & Guy Pettit and Rachel Glaser. Ben Fama is hosting. It’s happening tonight at Public Assembly @ 7pm. Poetry, prose & the weird shit in between.
Public Assembly [...]
My dear sea urchins and starfish,
This Thursday, I will be performing a story about my grandmother’s breasts as part of BALLS OUT COMEDY, a monthly comedy-variety show held at the Bowery Poetry Club. I’m hella nervous and hope it ain’t gonna be crickets and pity-laughs. The line-up is ill. The Bowery Poetry Club is ill. [...]
Spring is licking our faces and I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to participate in Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop’s 10th Anniversary Bash at BookCourt in Brooklyn this Monday, April 2nd. Cake and wine and gluttony and beauty starts at 6:30PM. Readings by Adam Wilson, Abby Sher, Joe Bernardo, and me will commence at 7 [...]
Have you heard? Zachary Schomburg is breaking everyone’s hearts and sheltering our knock-kneed frailty from the unpredictable and the impossible with his third book of poems, Fjords. And he’s bringing shadow puppets and violinists with him. And me! My hands do not create stirring shadows or music that follows you in dreams, but they will [...]
Hello morning glories. Octopus Books, Black Ocean, and Letter Machine are hosting a night of poetry, music, grinding burps, and art on Friday, March 2nd during the AWP conference in Chicago. I will be reading from Dear Jenny, We Are Find, but the real beauty will happen when Christopher DeWeese, Peter Gizzi, [...]