IT’S HERE! IT’S FINALLY HERE! A JAB OF DEEP URGENCY is out in the wild!
Breaking news! Those of you who pre-ordered A JAB OF DEEP URGENY are receiving your copies in the mail. AND I AM SO EXCITED! This chapbook, like every chapbook, I think, was a labor of love. Perhaps unlike other chapbooks, it exists because of a community of writers that encouraged me to take on a cool found poetry project. And now there’s a book. And it’s really pretty! Check out this picture of fellow Finishing Line poet LaToya Jordan‘s wee daughter holding A JAB OF DEEP URGENCY:
Check out those cutie future-poet hands!
If you haven’t yet ordered a copy, you can do so from my publisher, Finishing Line Press. If you’re local to Texas, I have two upcoming readings and I would love to meet you and read poems to you and sign books for you!
On Saturday, November 15, I’ll be at Malvern Books in Austin, TX. I’ll be reading at 7pm with fellow Austin writer Tatiana Ryckman. There will be snacks and drinks and lots of wonderful words!
On Saturday, November 22, I’ll be at The Book Spot in Round Rock, TX. This will be a celebration of both A JAB OF DEEP URGENCY and my book that came out in June, A GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICAL ABDUCTEE. I’ll be reading from both books and signing and answering questions about found poetry and bumps in the night. Make sure you show up if you’d like to get a mini found poetry kit, which I am joyfully putting together right now!
Finishing Line Press, October 2014.
Come hang out! I can’t wait to see y’all!
Very soon reading guides will be available for both books. I’ll have them on my website for educators to download, and I will also have pretty, printed versions at events. Including the above-mentioned events! Thanks to Colleen Conrad of Kealing Middle School for writing these!
And thank you to everyone has encouraged and supported me as a poet and as a writer. Especially my family, the folks at Found Poetry Review, Team Red Bird and Team Finishing Line as well as all my pals here in the Austin Writing Community and my online community at CRLiterature on deviantART.com.
IT’S HERE! IT’S HERE! IT’S HERE! I’m going to go roll around in some poems now. YAY!
