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Poems Online:

Audio/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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

 

 

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