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April 21, 2019
SOFT SCIENCE is Recommended by These Nice People!
April is National Poetry Month, and these kind folks recommended reading Soft Science to celebrate!
O, the Oprah Magazine, “17 of the Best Poetry Books, as Recommended by Acclaimed Writers for National Poetry Month”
Out Magazine, “8 Queer Books to Read in April”
The Rumpus, “What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry”
Ms. Magazine, “Poetry for the Rest of Us”
Chicago Review of Books, “The Best New Books of April 2019”
Book Riot, “Queer Poetry Collections to Read During National Poetry Month”
March 18, 2019
Interviews with the Iowa Review and Michigan Quarterly Review
Had the pleasure of doing two interviews, one with the Michigan Quarterly Review’s blog about the idea of literary citizenship and one with the Iowa Review, in which I start out by saying, “I’m not a scientist of anything but my own weird feelings.” It’s true.
AWP Events!
Here are all the things I’m doing at AWP this year, other than hiding in a corner eating clementines and CBD gummies.
Thursday, March 28
Book Signing at the Alice James Booth
2:00 pm
AWP Book Fair, Alice James Books, #3023
The Future is Femme & Queer: An Alice James Reading
w/ Shira Erlichman, Tamiko Beyer, and francine j. harris
4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Portland Ballroom 251, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
VS / Poetry Magazine Podcast Live Show!
w/ Danez Smith, Lindsay Garbutt, Kazim Ali, and Brenda Shaughnessy
10:00 pm
P:ear Gallery, 338 NW 6th Ave
Friday, March 29
Act of Gratitude: Poetry International’s 20th Anniversary Reading
w/ Sherman Bitsui, Catherine Barnett, and Jenny Minniti-Shippey
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm
Portland Ballroom 255, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Offsite Reading at the Cleaners
w/ Kenji Liu, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Jane Wong, and other readers from Alice James Books, Burnside Review, Canarium Books, and Oversound
7:00 pm doors
The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, 403 SW 10th Ave
Saturday, March 30
The Art of the Interview
w/ Rachel Zucker, Danez Smith, and Rebecca Hoogs
3:00pm – 4:15pm
Oregon Ballroom 201-202, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
The Dark Noise Fish Fry
w/ Ilya Kaminsky, Carlina Duan, Ross Gay, Alison Rollins, Noor Ibn-Najam, Tommy Pico, Hollis Wong-Wear, & members of the Dark Noise Collective. Featuring a LIVE Brew & Forge Book Fair!
8:00 pm doors
YesYes Bookstore, 1614 NE Alberta St.
March 15, 2019
Soft Science Book Releases in Detroit & New York!
We’re celebrating this weird cyborg bb being in the world!
Detroit Book Release
April 5 at Trinosophes (1464 Gratiot Ave)
Doors at 7pm, $5, free for youth
Featuring: Fatimah Asghar, Nandi Comer, Hieu Nguyen, and Cameron Awkward-Rich. Music by Vanessa Reynolds and Jamila Woods. Vibes by DJ CoCo Curious.
New York Book Release
April 13 at Books Are Magic (225 Smith St, Brooklyn)
7:30 pm, free!
Featuring Angel Nafis, Shira Erlichman, and Cathy Park Hong!
SOFT SCIENCE is on some good lists!
By juxtaposing the plastic with organic, she claims all the fallen world and achieves something new here, something rarely seen in poetry: profoundly intelligent work which makes you feel. –Lit Hub
Soft Science was included in some lists of books to watch out for in 2019!
Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”
Book Riot’s “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections of 2019”
Buzzfeed’s “66 Books Coming in 2019 That You’ll Want to Keep On Your Radar”
The Rumpus’ “What to Read When 2019 is Just Around the Corner”
October 23, 2018
Poems in Waxwing and IthacaLit
Three poems went up in the lovely journal Waxwing this summer: “DMZ Salpuri,” “They’re Cutting the Ovaries Out of Deer and Laying Them Out on Yoga Mats When They’re Done,” and “What a Cyborg Wants.”
I wrote the first poem when I was obsessed with this video, the second when I was obsessed with this news story.
The good folks at IthacaLit also ran a feature on my work, including five poems from my new book, Soft Science–three new ones and two that were previously published in print-only journals.
Also: we’re finishing work on the cover of Soft Science. I can’t wait to show yall!
January 5, 2018
May 30, 2017
Interview with the Michigan Quarterly Review
Here’s a brief write-up about Floating, Brilliant, Gone and an interview where I answer four questions about poetry / responsibility / urgency and also go on a brief tangent about aliens.
May 12, 2017
March 15, 2017
Introduction to Quantum Theory
New poem out in The Adroit Journal today! I’ve been challenging myself to write poems with more questions than answers, and this one’s definitely got a lot of questions — some of which I find mildly terrifying.
Thanks due to Martín Espada for this thought experiment (and so many others).
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