Mothertruckin' essay
Saturday, September 21, 2013
I am pleased to have an essay on motherhood featured over at Rattle & Pen. Many thanks to the editor. I am in some great company over there!
Text from Mom: "Never defy a witch."
Monday, September 16, 2013
(It wasn't directed at me. She was referring to using her mind powers to get a flight canceled when she didn't want to travel. Once when she was younger she said, "I'm going to make that streetlight go out," then pointed at it, and it went dark. So. You know.)
Publication news
Monday, September 02, 2013
I'm pleased to announce that my second full-length book, What Is a Domicile, will be published by Noctuary Press in spring 2014! I love the mission of this press, and I'm very excited to be working with them. (My first full-length book, from Brooklyn Arts Press, will appear in early 2014.)
And in chapbook news my collaborative chapbook with Todd Colby, I'm Glad I Know You, is now up online as the first digital publication from Poetry Crush. Yay!
Five for Wednesday
Thursday, July 25, 2013
1. This episode of the Waltons. It scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid. I wasn't sure it was real. It's real.
2. This Mary Ellen Mark picture of Lily Tomlin and Tom Waits, which I continue to find oddly heartening.
3. The New York Poetry Festival is this weekend. Stain of Poetry has some wonderful readers appearing at the festival on Saturday: Emily Toder, Monica McClure & Gregory Crosby. Yes!
4. I'm happy to announce that Todd Colby & I have a collaborative online chapbook forthcoming through Poetry Crush! Details TBA soon.
5. My Florida sojourn is coming to an end. Goodbye and hello from me & E. from Florida and soon from Brooklyn again.
2. This Mary Ellen Mark picture of Lily Tomlin and Tom Waits, which I continue to find oddly heartening.
3. The New York Poetry Festival is this weekend. Stain of Poetry has some wonderful readers appearing at the festival on Saturday: Emily Toder, Monica McClure & Gregory Crosby. Yes!
4. I'm happy to announce that Todd Colby & I have a collaborative online chapbook forthcoming through Poetry Crush! Details TBA soon.
5. My Florida sojourn is coming to an end. Goodbye and hello from me & E. from Florida and soon from Brooklyn again.
Word Balloon
Monday, May 20, 2013
by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby
Some days you learn a lot about eye shadow or about how
the medication inherent in cosmetics makes the heart grow fonder,
or softer, or more medicated. If you really believed this was your life
and not an ever-evolving state of emergency, you might blend into
the horizon like a warm knife into butter on a boat in the Indian
Ocean. But I digress. There are programs designed to help you lift
weights while buying fruit or to help you smooth out your fear of death
with a straightening iron. In my own program, I loom for hours
over the advertisements in the back of The New Yorker, which
is sort of like stabbing myself in the face. Don't forget the world
is full of things like overly tall trees, impudent starlings, toxic puddles,
and, when you really get down to the brass tacks, some rather molten
leftovers from the time of the burnt wafer. I mean I'm all over
the enlightenment tip, pausing in doorways to die and be reborn
108 times a day. It's only fair to tell you how far I've come to tell you
of the odd course at our flanks, jumping from year to year. In fact,
I've come from the the past to tell you. You are hearing the voice
of someone who no longer exists or never really did. You are filling
your shoes with sand in an attempt to appear more carefree and
useless. My advice: Take off your angst like taking off a coat made
of angst. I'll meet you there or anywhere they still let me in.
Some days you learn a lot about eye shadow or about how
the medication inherent in cosmetics makes the heart grow fonder,
or softer, or more medicated. If you really believed this was your life
and not an ever-evolving state of emergency, you might blend into
the horizon like a warm knife into butter on a boat in the Indian
Ocean. But I digress. There are programs designed to help you lift
weights while buying fruit or to help you smooth out your fear of death
with a straightening iron. In my own program, I loom for hours
over the advertisements in the back of The New Yorker, which
is sort of like stabbing myself in the face. Don't forget the world
is full of things like overly tall trees, impudent starlings, toxic puddles,
and, when you really get down to the brass tacks, some rather molten
leftovers from the time of the burnt wafer. I mean I'm all over
the enlightenment tip, pausing in doorways to die and be reborn
108 times a day. It's only fair to tell you how far I've come to tell you
of the odd course at our flanks, jumping from year to year. In fact,
I've come from the the past to tell you. You are hearing the voice
of someone who no longer exists or never really did. You are filling
your shoes with sand in an attempt to appear more carefree and
useless. My advice: Take off your angst like taking off a coat made
of angst. I'll meet you there or anywhere they still let me in.
Poetry month news
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Check out the blogs of my friends Lauren Gordon and Annmarie O'Connell, who totally killed it during NaPoWriMo.
Also, poetry will continue after April. This Stain of Poetry reading on May 31st featuring Lee Ann Roripaugh, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Kathleen Rooney, and Lynn Melnick stands to be amazing! It will be my first time back hosting (with co-hosts J. Hope Stein and Jenny Zhang) since the baby was born.
Cathlamet Prize
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
I'm pleased to announce that I've won the Cathlamet Prize from Ravenna Press, and my chapbook Crown will be published as part of their Pocket Books series. I'll keep you posted on when the chapbook will be out. I'm really happy that this manuscript has found a home with Ravenna Press!
Elizabeth Bishop
Friday, April 19, 2013
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| Elizabeth Bishop House, Great Village, Nova Scotia |
The blog of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary has linked to my April 11th piece about staying at the Bishop House. What an honor. Check out the blog for interesting posts about Bishop and Bishop scholarship, like the Wonder Questions, posts exploring the connections between the work of Elizabeth Bishop and other writers, artists, and musicians, including people like Orwell! and Nabokov!
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