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Noticing
Doesn’t look quite real, does it? But it is, this clerodendron growing beside my parents’ driveway. I don’t know a lot about plants, though I look the names up often–for translations, for poems, for no good reason. Wikipedia tells me clerodendron’s common names include “glorybower,” “bagflower,” and “bleeding-heart,” which don’t seem real, either. Seem, at…
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Detours
So there you are in the middle of nowhere, windows rolled down and the radio starting to drain on the battery. And the wind, cold wind, hot–fast air, really, you can’t tell the temperature, but there you are, in the middle of nowhere. —To read more, check out the chapbook, available from Burnside Review…
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Reading at Cornell Store October 1
Please join me at the Cornell Store on Monday, October 1, 4:00-5:00 pm. I’ll be reading from Detours. Copies of the chapbook will be available. I’m looking forward to being back in Ithaca–it’s been a long time! Many thanks to the Cornell Latin American Studies Program and to the Cornell Store for sponsoring the event.
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Some Detours Thanks
Detours has been out for about a month now, and I want to say thank you! to a few people: To Karen McPherson (Sketching Elise), for poem-caching me in her Poetry Box– and how cool is a poetry box, right? Are there poetry boxes in your town? Check out the scheme here: http://www.utteredchaos.org/. To Ruth Horowitz (Giving Up…
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Detours (chapbook) now available from Burnside Review Press
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Detour ahead!
Detours will be out this month from Burnside Review in Portland. I’ll be blogging about Detours–and detours in general–at ¿Se enseña aquí? Do stop by!
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“Detours” wins Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Contest
My sequence of linked prose poems/flash fiction won the 2011 Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Contest, judged by Blake Butler, and will be published by Burnside Review Press later this year. More details (and how to enter this year’s contest) on the journal’s website: http://www.burnsidereview.org/contests.php
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Upcoming Reading: Wine and Word Tasting
I’ll be reading from Beyond the Islands and my novel-in-progress at Winter’s Hill Vineyard‘s 2nd Annual Wine and Word Tasting on Sat. Feb. 11. But don’t just come to hear me: our delicious blend of translators, poets, novelists, and essayists includes Karen McPherson, Adrienne Mitchell, Barbara Drake, and Kelly Terwilliger. Please plan to join us,…
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Solstice Moon
I got up at 6:15 this morning, a dark Northwest winter morning heading for the solstice, and the moonlight across the back deck was so bright, I thought the neighbors’ porch light was on. I opened the door to look, I called my daughter so she could look, too. It was read-by moonlight, and if…
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Argentina Count-Down (part 1)
I picked up a 6-week, inter-library loan on campus the other day, and the return date was none other than my departure date for Argentina. Aack! I’ve got as many to-do lists as a woman could wish for, but checking things off the lists is proving harder. So the packing/planning/copying/reserving/panicking begins in earnest. I spent…