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          Sample poems from Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore :           

Homeroom    Gateway Drug    Rubber    Keloid

For more poems from the book, see the Anhinga Press website...  

Poems Online:

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

Starting Today: Poems for the first 100 days (2009) - "Slinky Dirt with Development Hat"

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

32 Poems (2009) - "You are Invisible"

PoetryNet (2008) - 4 poems

VerseDaily (2007) - "The Barcode of Love" 

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

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

VerseDaily (2004) - "Fathom"

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

 

Poems in Print:

Forthcoming, Journals (2009-10)

Anti-  - Subtropics - Gargoyle - VQR - The New Republic - The Journal - The American Poetry Review

Iron Horse Literary Review

 

Recently Published, Journals (selected)

2009

Blackbird - 32 Poems - Barn Owl Review - Washington Square - The Southern Review - The Southeast Review

2008

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

2007

The American Poetry Review - Crab Orchard Review - Prairie Schooner

2006

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

2005

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

2004

Barrow Street - Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review - Third Coast - North American Review - Prairie Schooner

5 AM - The Paterson Literary Review - The Minnesota Review - 32 Poems

2003

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

2002

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

 

Anthologies

Starting Today:  Poems for Obama's First 100 Days.  Eds. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2010.  Poem: "Slinky Dirt with Development Hat."

From the Fishouse:  An Anthology of Emerging Poets.  Eds. Camille Dungy, Matt O'Donnel, and Jeff Thompson, Persea Books, 2009.  146; 181.  Poems:  "Quisiera Declarar" and "someone calls."

Poetry Writing:  Creative and Critical Approaches.  Eds. Chad Davidson and Gregory Fraser, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  Poem:  "Rubber"

The Way We Work Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace.  Eds. Peter Scheckner and Mary Boyes, Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.  196-198.  Poem:  “Job.”

Efforts and Affections:  Women Poets on Mentorship.  Eds. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008.  118-124.  Poems:  “Elegy with no Shoe-Leather Enfolded in a Love Poem,” “Sex Ed,” and “Homeroom.” 

The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor.  Eds. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden, No Tell Books, 2007.  44-45; 135-136.  Poems:  “Isotope” and “Treatise on Dwelling.”

Never Before:  Poems About First Experiences.  Ed. Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Four Way Books, 2005.  73-74; 145-147.  Poems:  “All the Pools in Queens” and “Job.”

Red, White & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America.  Eds. Ryan Van Cleave and Virgil Suarez.  University of Iowa Press, 2004.  127-128.  Poem:  “Gentrification.”  

Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets.  Eds. Rick Campbell and C.L. Knight.  Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2004.  236-245.  Poems:  “Labor Day,” “Elegy,” “They Are Always Doing Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore,” “Kinky,” and “someone calls.”

A Christmas Collection.  Ed. Mary Ann Eichelberger.  New York: July Literary Press, 2001. 32.  Poem:  “Sunset Park Preparatory Academy (M.S. 821).” 

 

Other Writing & Interviews:

Essays

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

Review of The Next Country, by Idra Novey, in Lilith Magazine (Summer 2009) 

 

Web

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...

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)

 

         

  Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches (Approaches to Writing)