New Sales! New Magazines! Happy Fall!

Hi guys! I hope you loved Banned Books Month as much as I did! Holy wow there were so many fabulous guest posts. And I learned a lot, even as someone who considers herself pretty knowledgeable about banned books and censorship.

Speaking of which, I had a really great time at this Banned Books Read-Out at Malvern Books, where I read a scandalous section of Deenie by Judy Blume. Here’s a group photo courtesy of Stephanie Kipp McLain:

L-R: Mark Smith, Me, Andrew Hilbert, Tish Hinojosa, Sarah Bird, and Loriene Roy.

And here’s me, just, you know, reading some Judy:

Photo by Stephanie Kipp McLain.

Woo banned books! The Read-Out was hosted by Malvern Books and Loriene Roy and was a fundraiser for the Freedom To Read Foundation. I’m so pleased to have been able to read alongside such wonderful writers and advocates of intellectual freedom. Thank you!

So while I was letting all these awesome guest posters take over my blog, a LOT of stuff happened. The biggest news miiiiight be the cover reveal for my forthcoming chapbook PRAY, PRAY, PRAY: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night:

Front and back cover of PRAY, PRAY, PRAY. Art by Nicci Mechler.

You can preorder the book from Porkbelly Press now! Click on the cover or follow this link to the Porkbelly Etsy page and reserve your copy. All preorders will come with some swag. You know, tiny raspberry beret clips and bookmarks. (Or as Nicci and I like to call them, princemarks.) If you’re in Austin or the surrounding area or you just want to come hang out in Austin, we are launching PRAY, PRAY, PRAY at Malvern Books on October 25th! I’ll be joined by several other poets with their own Prince poems. For more info, visit the event page either at Malvern’s website or on Facebook. Hope to see you there! Bring all your friends!

So as if I couldn’t be more pumped, I also somehow managed to sell two more chapbooks in September. Seriously. I can’t even.

My chapbook FIRE IN THE SKY collects three long poems created by scrambling lyrics from Lana Del Rey albums and then erasuring the scrambled texts. Warning: this book discusses sexy things and has a lot of swear words. So it’s definitely not intended for a YA or children’s audience. BUT. I am very excited. Grey Book Press will be publishing FIRE IN THE SKY  in early 2016. And I can’t wait to share it with y’all!

My second chapbook sale of September is SHE WITNESSES, which collects selected poems from Found Poetry Review‘s PoMoSco project, including three pieces from the AWP JamPoRee. So…there are a couple of Prince poems here. Because a) Prince and b) AWP was in Minneapolis. SHE WITNESSES will be coming out with dancing girl press in May or June of 2016. I couldn’t be more thrilled to work with dgp!

Parenthetical Issue 9, September 2015.

Meanwhile, I published poems in the print journals Room and (parenthetical) in September, which you can buy by clicking the links. (You can also read (parenthetical online for free.)

I also had several pieces in the following online journals:

The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society: “Do Liberate” and “Because it was the holy night”

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: “Use the Narrow Edge”

Abyss & Apex: “I Love All the Space Photos” and “Do not forsake”

So. I think that’s all the news. If you needed an extra news, there’s a Goodreads Giveaway going on for review copies of PRAY, PRAY, PRAY. Go here to enter!

Thanks for reading, y’all. I’m sure you’ll hear from me soon. I have things to say.