Category: publication
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Coming May 31st
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on…
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My Ariel
I caught the first copy of My Ariel as it slid off the glue machine a few weeks back. My son caught the second (see video below!). The book is alive and kicking–pub date is officially September 18th, which happens by chance to be my mother’s birthday. This is more relevant than I thought it…
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Death & Co.
The latest from My Ariel is up. Thanks to Mark Bibbins at The Awl. The dead bell, the dead bell Every Christ a clap of bad behaviour, Ballsy as Blake, a birthmark Of meat, a red frill of privilege. Baby eaters all, a sweet girl In a white cage. Such a useful future Looming, the men…
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The Jailor
The latest poem from my new Plath manuscript is up at The Walrus. Thanks to Damian Rogers for choosing it. If they look familiar, they should be: they are re-visions, ghostings, confrontations, and responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. “The Jailor,” The Walrus “I am no Lady, Lazarus,” Rusty Toque “Little Fugue,” The Awl “Thalidomide,” “The Rabbit Catcher,” The Malahat Review “Couriers,” “Cut,”…
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New book spring 2014
MxT, or “Memory x Time,” is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief. These poems mourn the dead by turning memories over and over in their hands, by invoking other poets, by appropriating science, by studying the history of elegy. Devastating, cheeky, allusive, hallucinatory: this is Queyras…
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