Last year, interviews and reviews editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Sarah Ann Winn, invited me to interview poet Maggie Smith for their March issue. A big fan of Maggie Smith's work, I eagerly agreed. It was such a pleasure to reread her two most recent collections, Good Bones and The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and to have an …
I had such a wonderful weekend presenting at the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference reading with Stacey Balkun, Sally Rosen Kindred, and Donna Vorreyer on "Reinventing Ever After: Women Reclaim the Fairy Tale in Poetry"...
Last summer, editor-in-chief Carolyn Turgeon invited me to write an article on St. Hildegard of Bingen for the medieval-themed winter issue of Faerie Magazine. Since I'd traveled to Bingen in 2014 to research Hildegard for THE BOOK OF GOTHEL, I was excited about the assignment. St. Hildegard is a fascinating, complicated figure. Over the past four years, …
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I'm grateful to a number of people to be packing my bags this week! There's the National Endowment for the Arts, which funded the two-week fellowship and stipend I've received to Vermont Studio Center to work on my novel-in-progress, THE BOOK OF GOTHEL. There's my Dean, who was kind enough to allow me to participate …
I’m excited to share the release of the latest issue of Border Crossing, the online journal I co-edit with Julie Brooks Barbour as part of our work with the Lake Superior State University creative writing program. As fiction editor, I’m especially eager to share the work of a Danish writer I discovered this year in translation: Adda Djørup. The editorial board was blown away by …
My poem, "Louisiana Disaster Recovery 3.0," appears in the latest issue of Gulf Coast. I'm so grateful that it found a home in a journal so close to my hometown because it's about the floods my family and friends suffered in the greater Baton Rouge area last fall. The poem was written for a multimedia dance/art/creative writing concert …
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I'm chairing the SFPA's poetry contest, this year, and it opens today! First, second, and third place prizes will go to the best speculative poems in each of three length categories. All forms and styles of speculative poetry are accepted. You can read more about the contest rules on the official contest website. This year's judge is …
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I received my contributors' copies of Cimarron Review in this afternoon's mail. It's an honor to have two poems from the full-length poetry manuscript I'm working on appear alongside work by Karen Skolfield, Sidney Wade, and Edmund White. Highlights for me, in addition to work by the above-mentioned poets, included Katherine Kaufman's prose poem, "The Foxes," and Miriam Cohen's wonderfully …
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