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On Plath’s Lady Lazarus & I am No Lady, Lazarus
You’ll find my essay on working with Plath’s Ariel, here in particular the poem “Lady Lazarus” which among other things, I ran through a randomizer to create my version. Full essay over on LitHub and excerpted from “Sina Queyras on Sylvia Plath, ‘Lady Lazarus’” from The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems…
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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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Introducing Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
It’s my pleasure to announce the publication of this lovingly compiled and edited Nicole Brossard Reader from Coach House Books. I worked closely with Genevieve and Erin, but Alana Wilcox is the true Brossard champion and deserves so much applause and praise for the work she has done to bring vital feminist experimental voices–such as…
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Ongoing Mentorship
I will be on sabbatical as of January 2022 & unable to take on any new students until January 2023. I’ll attach an email subscription very soon–I would like to have a sense of how many people will come. This list will also be used to update you on the next sessions and also send…
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Merci Room of One’s Own
I published my first (or second…) poem in Room Of Own’s Own some…omg…some…thirty years ago? Is that possible? Must be. I was chuffed then and I’m chuffed now with this review from Adele Barclay. Thanks Room, thanks, Adele, thanks to all who have read and read poetry and respond.
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Students are coming! Save the date.
Featuring Renee Gladman, Danielle Dutton, Karen Solie, Oana Avasilichioaei, Stephanie Bolster, Tess Liem–more names to come!
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New Poems Up
Several poems from My Ariel, my new manuscript, are up across the Internet. If they look familiar, they should be: they are re-visions, ghostings, confrontations, and responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. I’ll be writing more about the project (like why on earth, and are you insane?), but not until next summer, when I have some time to…
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MxT reviewed over at Poetry
MxT generates its force through the perpetual denial of this promise. Over and over, the poems present a detached and clinical façade, only to have it break down or prove useless. For example, “A Manual for Remembering” instructs the reader on ways to encounter memory while remaining safe and insulated: “When remembering it is best…
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