Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 23

Very superstitious / Ladders 'bout to fall

If blogging has taught me anything, it's taught me that I'm superstitious. I often want to write about process or what I'm currently working on, but don't because I believe I'll jinx myself. So ridiculous! I know. Anyway, I want to tell you/talk to you about something I'm working on, a little part of my process, and I'm not going to. It's not you. It's me._____In other news, I'm eagerly

Girl on a Bridge : Reviewed by Wendy Burk

at Terrain.orgExcerpt:Moving through Girl on a Bridge, we experience a general progression through time: the teenager of "Great Lash" becomes an adult becomes a wife becomes the mother of the book's final poem, "December." And yet, juxtapositions between poems tend to jar us. Sometimes, things happen backwards here, or over and over. A tender love poem is sandwiched between two poems about

"Her Body as Climax"

is included in hot off the press Issue 6 of PALABRA. I can't wait to read this issue!Featured Authors:Chantel AcevedoRicardo AcuñaSamuel ArizpeMarco Alejandro BravoWilfredo Q. CastañoYago S. Cura Blas FalconerCristián Flores GarcíaSuzanne FrischkornLisha Adela GarcíaLorraine HealyScott HernandezAdrianna HerreraManuel Paul López Jason LovatoMatt MendezJina OrtizThelma T. ReynaAndrés RodríguezJosé

Anti-'s

newest featured poet is Gregory Sherl. *

Girls to the Front

Marcus writes that by 1996, the last Riot Grrrl chapters (in DC and New York) had closed. But in a postscript, she updates us on the current activities of all the girls profiled in the book. They are professors, students, writers, artists, and activists. They are making music and zines, and working with girls, women, and the elderly. One is at work on an oral history of Riot Grrrl; another is

Sweet

Live Broadcast tonight from Dodge Poetry Festival (Thanks Cornshake!)

LENNONYC

Watch a clip from the AMERICAN MASTERS: LENNONYC, a new film that takes an intimate look at the time Lennon, Yoko Ono and their son, Sean, spent living in New York City during the 1970s. The film premieres nationally Monday, November 22 at 9pm on PBS (check local listings). In this clip see archival performance footage and interviews with the musicians and recording engineers who worked with

My Body as the Tropicana Nightclub, 1952

appears in the Summer 2010 North American Review! I received my contributor's copies yesterday. I am so honored to be included in this beautiful, beautiful issue -- it's their summer fiction issue as well as their issue celebrating Hispanic Heritage -- contributors include Chantal Avecedo, Rafael Campo, Steven Ramirez, David Wagoner and many others. I started reading it last night and so far I

Thoughts From Inside the MFA Ponzi Scheme

As for me and a lot of the classmates and writers I queried, we find this debate about whether to MFA extremely dull. "How can free time and community support be a bad thing?" "If anything, I feel more free to experiment because I'm exposed to writing I wouldn't otherwise have read." For a person who really wants to become a writer, none of this matters. She will go to school if she feels it will

Cuban Polymita , 1985

Daniel Serra-Badue