My poetry collection, The Night Is What It Eats, won the Elixir Press Poetry Prize! I’m so thankful to Editor Dana Curtis and judge Jennifer Franklin choosing my manuscript, and extremely happy to join the poets (many whose work I’ve admired for years) in the Elixir Press catalog
Doubleback Books is thrilled to release Joy Ladin's Impersonation, a collection of poems that chronicles the speaker's messy, mysterious, profound, and idiosyncratic gender transition.
Download your free copy today! 🎉
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"are
there
enough
pink constellations for you
to trace
astronaut,
am I fodder"
from "Dear" in Manuela Williams chapbook "Ghost in Girl Costume"
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Ghost in Girl Costume presents the outward and inward gaze of the female body and soul. Delving into womanhood and vulnerability, these #poems peel back the layers to reveal the ghost within the girl costume.
Read the full #chapbook now for free!
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In this month's blog, Danielle Hanson stresses getting clear on why we write. 💬 @daniellejhanson#georgiawritersassociation
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Recommend: I Will Not Name It Except to Say by Lee Sharkey
"Soon, I’ll be the only keeper of the memories that made a family.
I don’t trust myself with that much treasure
but here I am, holding out my arms and smiling. . . "
https://t.co/qwQqKizGJI
Recommended: @MonicaYoun's Blackacre. Her immense attention to language and language play makes the poems twinkle.
Gold flecked, dark-rimmed, opaque—
like a toad’s
stolid surprise—
the lake never blinks
its hazel eye. . .
More: https://t.co/NZEr1qmhMy
Recommend: @estebanjrod11 The Valley. Honest and real. The details are perfect, exact, telling. The book is just lovely.
. . .my father’s dressed like he’s about to mow
the lawn but instead of a trimmer he wields
like a soldier a metal detector . . .
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Join us on Wednesday for this month's workshop, Business Management Tools for Writers, honest by @daniellejhanson! Workshop topics will include creating mission statements, writing an elevator pitch, setting SMART goals, and more! https://t.co/jokhxxW7if
Recommend: The Wild Fox of Yemen is a book of otherness. The language is broken, out of sorts. But the speaker is not. This is a beautiful book.
There is a golden retriever being trained
to chase kids at the border. There is another
by a fireplace,
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Very excited for next week's workshop, Business Management Tools for Writers, honest by @daniellejhanson! Workshop topics will include creating mission statements, writing an elevator pitch, setting SMART goals, and more! https://t.co/jokhxxW7if
Check out this wonderful interview with @DoublebackP author Wendy Carlisle about her newly re-released collection Discount Fireworks! https://t.co/CrTYNrG6iC
"O, the long kickstand evenings, the white plastic fringes.
O, the pinstripes, the bells, the chrome handlebars.
O, shush of the summer traffic, the slap of a joker in wire spokes."
From "Bicycle" in Wendy T. Carlisle's Discount Fireworks
Download here:
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