A Bunch of News! Magazines, Things I’m Doing, and a New Chapbook!
Hello people of the Internet!
I know it’s been like almost a year since I’ve posted anything here. It’s been a busy year of recovery and writing and generally just trying to get my shit together. I’m still working on that last one. But I’ve been here, and I’ve been making things and doing things and I hope you have been too!
I’ve had poems out this summer in Cleaver and Atlas + Alice and Banshee and Underblong and Roanoke Review and FLAPPERHOUSE and Third Coast and Hawai’i Review. You can go click those things and read most of them online, though some of them do have print editions which I hope you’ll be interested in.
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Banshee Lit Issue #5: Autumn/Winter 2017.
Earlier this year I joined the staff of Red Paint Hill and I’ve been working with them on their magazine and their books. It’s been really nice to have my hands in reading slush again, and the team at RPH is lovely. I hope you’ll check out our recent issues here! And submission guidelines are here!
Meanwhile, at Anomalous Press, the team has been hard at work on the COME AS YOU ARE anthology, a fabulous volume of works on 90s pop culture featuring poems and flash pieces from some of my favorite writers including Danez Smith, Chen Chen, Allison Joseph, Gayle Brandeis, Randon Billings Noble, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Majda Gama, Ivy Alvarez, Sheila Squillante, and so many more. The pieces in this book are exciting and funny and heartbreaking and beautiful and I can’t wait to share it with y’all. Soon! The cover was screenprinted by Ruth Foley of Sentimental Asylum (she is also a brilliant writer and Managing Editor at Cider Press Review) and it righteously murdered her husband’s old pants. RIP Jed’s pants.
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Anamalous Press, 2017.
You can preorder COME AS YOU ARE at Anamalous Press’ store, here! And a big thanks to Samantha Duncan, former Executive Editor at ELJ Editions, for helping usher this anthology into the universe!
I also just got the cover for my chapbook 17 SEVENTEEN XVII which is forthcoming from Grey Book Press! This cover was done by teen artist clementine (you can check out her Instagram here) and I am so beyond impressed. All the little details, and the links it has to the poems in the chap—it’s too much!
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Grey Book Press, 2017.
17 SEVENTEEN XVII will be available later this fall and it is such a privilege to work with Scott Sweeney at Grey Book again (they did my chapbook FIRE IN THE SKY last spring). His willingness to do another weird little book with me a huge vote of confidence. The book contains seventeen pantoums that each have a “broken” line which pushes the line count for each piece to seventeen. And I used found text from Seventeen magazine to write the poems—they’re also effectively centos. I had so much fun writing this chap and I have to shout out to Doug Luman of Found Poetry Review and Container and the Applied Poetics tools who wrote me a spreadsheet to help me write pantoums. I’m really bad at counting lines in formal poetry!
Meanwhile it’s almost October and soon we will be entering round two for THE POEMING! THE POEMING II: Revenge of Rice starts October 1st and this year Sarah Nichols, Sarah Duncan, and I will be leading a group of 35 authors creating found poetry from Anne Rice’s 35 novels. Last year we had 56 folks making poems from Stephen King’s work, and so many of the poets have reported in over the last twelve months to tell us that they’ve been successfully placing these poems in magazines and anthologies! We’re hoping that everyone has as much fun and success this year! Check out THE POEMING’s “Motherhouse” here and follow us to see some of the poems that spring from the works of Anne Rice!
So that’s what I’m up to! I hope that you are feeling equally busy and fulfilled! And hopefully it won’t take a year for me to post something here again.
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