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Category Archives: Poetry

Clark had shopped the week before

Read “Wonder Woman Goes Grocery Shopping as Diana Prince and Discovers that Evil Doesn’t Always Carry a Gun or Wear a Goofy Costume” by Wendy Babiak.

everything that mutes is mutual

Prick of the Spindle has just accepted two of my poems, “The Casualty Notification Officer” and “Everything that Divides,” for their next issue. Woot!

self-sufficiency

This poem was originally published in My Poem Rocks * (6 July 2009). I used words and phrases from this poem as search terms on flickr, and then selected photos from the search results (whether or not the photos had anything to do with the poem) and made the above collage. While the above pictures [...]

Werepenguin

This poem was originally published in Strange Horizons * (10 March 2008). I used words and phrases from this poem as search terms on flickr, and then selected photos from the search results (whether or not the photos had anything to do with the poem) and made the above collage. While the above pictures in [...]

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again

Read “Language” by U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin.

Praise this world, Rilke says, the jerk.

Read “Alien vs. Predator” by Michael Robbins.

Well, obviously in the interim I lost my virginity.

Last day of our poetry blog tour, Back to the Future: Christine’s interview with me.

Poetry open mic at Landmark Booksellers

I’ve been meaning to get out to some open mics and read since we moved to Nashville last summer. When we first got here I googled “open mic” and because this is Nashville, it was endless singer songwriter stuff. I pretty much shrugged and forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago, though, something reminded [...]

Nah, I had Supergirl, because even when I was a kid, I preferred a two-piece.

Day four of our poetry blog book tour, Back to the Future: Mary Alexandra Agner interviews Jeannine Hall Gailey. (Tomorrow: Christine‘s interview with me.)

it is the internally consistent world that makes the largest impression

Day three of our poetry blog book tour, Back to the Future: Mary Alexandra Agner and The Doors of the Body