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Poems Online:

Audio/Video

Smartish Pace/32 Poems AWP offsite reading (March 2012) - "Miracle Blanket" and "Walmart Supercenter" (video)

SIU Edwardsville Reading (Oct 2011) - video of me reading here, here, here, here, and here

The Poets Weave (2011) - audio from Indiana Public Media of me reading six poems here, here and here

PBS News Hour (2011) - "Miracle Blanket" (video)

Indiana Review (2010) - "Yiddishland" and "Niagara" (audio)

From the Fishouse (2006) - 6 poems and audio Q&A

 

Text

The Rumpus (2011) - "Walmart Supercenter"

Poetry Daily (2011) - "Campaign Speech"

Verse Daily (2011) - "Instructions for Vigilant Girls"

The Academy of American Poets (2011) - "untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"

Poetry Daily (2010) - "Ideal Cities"

Verse Daily (2010) - "May the World to Come Be Neon, Be Water"

Painted Bride Quarterly (2010) - "Inconsequential Alchemy"

Subtropics & Verse Daily (2010) - "To Whom It May Concern:"

Virginia Quarterly Review (2010) - "Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish"

Slate (2010) - "Big Box Encounter" (with audio)

AGNI (2010) - "The Book of Dissolution" and "Niagara"

Anti- (2010) - "January Towns" and "With/out"

Diode (2010) - "Poem With/out a Face" and "Small, Generic Night Towns"

Conte (2010) - "Instructions for Cyclists Contending with Evil" and "Clarifications Designed to Correspond..."

Cavalier Literary Couture (2009) - "Petaluminous" and "O Edinburgh"

Blackbird (2009) - "The Upstairs Notebook" and "Treatise on Travel"

Barn Owl Review (2009) - "Preventing Teen Cough Medicine Abuse"

32 Poems (2009) - "You are Invisible"

PoetryNet (2008) - 4 poems

Verse Daily (2007) - "The Barcode of Love" 

Slate (2006) - "Vinyl-Sided Epiphany" (with audio)

Verse Daily (2004) - "Fathom"

Slate (2003) - "Not a Poem About Driving at Night" (with audio)

Anhinga Press (2003) - sample poems from Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore

 

Poems in Print:

Recently Published & Forthcoming, Journals (selected)

2012:  Sou'wester - Gulf Coast - Waccamaw - 

2011:  Barrelhouse - Virginia Quarterly Review - Salt Hill 27 - Painted Bride Quarterly - Crab Orchard Review

2010:  The Journal - Iron Horse Literary Review - Virginia Quarterly Review - Barn Owl Review - The New Republic -

           The American Poetry Review - Indiana Review - Gargoyle - Ninth Letter - Cave Wall - Tin House

           Whiskey Island - Subtropics - Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2011

200932 Poems - Barn Owl Review - Washington Square - The Southern Review - The Southeast Review

2008The Florida Review - Indiana Review - Alaska Quarterly Review - Shenandoah - Nextbook.org - Redivider

2007The American Poetry Review - Crab Orchard Review - Prairie Schooner

2006Tampa Review - Hotel Amerika - BLOW - The Kenyon Review - Hotel Amerika

2005Mid-American Review - 32 Poems - Crab Orchard Review - Gargoyle - Redactions: Poetry & Prose - Nashim

2004Barrow StreetBorderlands: Texas Poetry Review - Third Coast - North American Review - 32 Poems -

           Prairie Schooner - 5 AM - The Paterson Literary Review - The Minnesota Review

2003Sewanee Theological Review - Mid-American Review - Clackamas Literary Review - Lake Effect

2002The Cream City Review - The Southeast Review - The Madison Review - Poet Lore - The Southern Review

 

Anthologies

Best American Poetry 2011 (Scribner, 2011).

Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010). 

From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009).

Poetry Writing:  Creative and Critical Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008).

Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008).

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor (No Tell Books, 2007). 

Never Before:  Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005).

Red, White & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America. (University of Iowa Press, 2004). 

Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets (Anhinga Press, 2004).

 

Other Writing & Interviews:

Essays

"This is not a Requiem for Detroit," Virginia Quarterly Review 87.2, Spring 2011 (Ruin & Rebirth Issue).

"On Rita Dove," first printed in Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008), reprinted in Callaloo 31.3 (2008), and selected for Best African American Essays: 2010 (Bantam Dell, 2010).

 

Web

A Tribute to Adrienne Rich at the VIDA website (April 2012)

An Introduction to Rita Dove's poems at Persimmontree Magazine (January 2012)

"In the Poetry Contest Gulags" at aboutaword (November 2011)

Guest blogging at the Best American Poetry blog (Nov 28, Nov 30, Dec 1, Dec 3, Dec 5 - 2010)

Piece on Marjane Satrapi for the Delirious Hem blog on women's poetics (May 2009)

Essay on my own Poetics as Poet of the Month, PoetryNet (August 2008)

 

Interviews

An interview with Weston Cutter at the Kenyon Review blog (July 2011)

An interview with Brian Brodeur at How a Poem Happens on "Miracle Blanket" (December 2010)

An interview with Robert Lee Brewer at the Poetic Asides blog (November 2010)

A conversation with Danielle Mebert at In Verse the Feet Went Bare blog (October 2010)

A 3-part interview with me by Sara Gelston at the Ninth letter blog (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 - August 2010)

An Interview with me by Serena Agusto-Cox at Savvy Verse & Wit (May 2009)

...and a longer version of the same interview on the 32 Poems blog (May 2009)

 

 

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