ON THE CUSP: PRESS RELEASAGE AND BLURBAGE

Lady Murasaki wrote in The Tale of Genji that thirty-seven is “a dangerous year” for women. Evoking the styles of Murasaki and other women writers of the Heian-period Japanese court, Lee Ann Roripaugh presents a collection of confessional poems charting the course of that perilous year. Roripaugh, in both an homage to and a dialogue [...]

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TABULA RASA

How to crack open this brand new blog space? After such an extended blog hiatus, and a decampment to a new blog platform, it seems as if there is simultaneously much too much, and nearly not enough, to say? Plus, how to redefine/reclaim/recoordinate the blog space in the midst of all my (seemingly) incessant FaceBooking, [...]

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IN WHICH I AWAKE TO A BIZARRO TAZO TEA-BAGGING INCIDENT PERPETRATED BY THE CATS

What I Wish I Was Doing this Afternoon: 1. Writing, writing, writing 2. Reading Murakami 3. Confessing all my secrets to the river, and secretly trysting with the sky 4. Sipping absinthe in the bathtub while listening to Thelonious Monk humming in the bright gilded spaces underneath the keys 5. Transgressing What I Wish I [...]

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NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE, TOTO

I spent a very pleasant afternoon yesterday giving a reading and holding a class discussion at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp twenty minutes down the road in Yankton, South Dakota. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, but given that the YFPC is a minimum-security institution, I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to [...]

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WHAT I WAS UP TO A FEW WEEKS BACK (IN LIEU OF ACTUAL BLOG POSTING)

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FAT TUESDAY/ASH WEDNESDAY

Last night: I drive to the Catholic College 20 minutes down the road and pretend to be my Author-Function. (And isn’t that really the tricky thing about readings? That one must somehow figure out how (without being too glib about it . . . unless, of course, glibness is one of the perceived or desirable [...]

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MiPo

Come check out the Asian-American Issue of MiPoesias, edited by Nick Carbo!!

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ARTHEART BITS – T-GIVING EDITION

1. Mug Shots First things first: Aerial View of 2006 T-giving Trifle. Profile Shot of 2006 T-giving Trifle. You have now officially been trifled with. Because I’m just that kind of a girl. * * * 2. Bodies, Rest, and Motion The week before T-giving was exhilarating and crazy. In approximately a ten-day span of [...]

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MARGO-FOREHEAD

I totally enjoyed my jaunt over to MSU-Moorhead to read as part of the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. The students were terrific, and the reading and craft talk very generously attended. I was treated very kindly, and got to stay in a wonderful old B&B. Life was good. Some things I learned. The twin [...]

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OY, ENOUGH WITH THE POODLES ALREADY!

In the midst of frantically scuttling about like a deranged cockroach while attempting to get ready for an out-of-town reading, I had something kind of blow up in my face this afternoon and snowball in such a way that instead of packing, which I should have been doing, I’ve been alternately obsessing on the phone, [...]

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