University of Chicago

University of Chicago

I’ll be at the University of Chicago for two events Tuesday Jan. 19 and Wednesday Jan. 20 2016: on Tuesday I’ll be reading poetry and talking about my (very nonscholarly) versions of Callimachus at 7pm, and on Wednesday I’ll be giving a critical talk in the History and Forms of Lyric series, at 4:30pm. The talk is called “How to Make an Anthology, or the Literary History of the Present.” If you live in Chicago perhaps I will see you...
A video/ audio reading in Scotland (sort of) with David Wheatley

A video/ audio reading in Scotland (sort of) with David Wheatley

A few weeks ago David Wheatley and I read together for the Scottish Poetry Library, in a delightful online-only real-time event orchestrated by Robert Peake and Jennifer Williams. You can now see and/or hear the whole event, or any part thereof, via YouTube, by clicking the link in this sentence. Thanks, YouTube! Thanks, Jennifer and Robert and David and tech support people! Let us know what you think, if you do check it...
All-Season Stephanie

All-Season Stephanie

My new chapbook All-Season Stephanie is now out and ready for you to order from the good folks at Rain Taxi, who published it! As the title implies, they are poems that show you (or show me) what my life could have been like if I had grown up as, and been seen as, a girl. Eowyn Evans did the art (Rain Taxi’s Kelly Everding deserves many thanks for the design). You can read a representative poem from the chapbook, “Esprit Stephanie,” at The...
See you at AWP 2015!

See you at AWP 2015!

I’ll be happy to return temporarily to Minnesota for the Associated Writing Programs Conference (AWP) in Minneapolis, April 8-11 2015. I’m doing a few things (besides seeing friends and going to poetry readings) while I’m there. You can hear me on the offsite panel organized by the London Review of Books, at Ryan’s Pub, 1410 Nicollet, 3pm Thursday. I’ll be honored to join J. Robert Lennon, Leslie Jamison, Christian Lorentzen and Emily Cooke. You can hear me read poems at the Minnesota Expat Reading sponsored by Rain Taxi at the Walker Art Center at 6:30pm (both events are free and do not require AWP badges).I’ll be reading from my brand-new chapbook, All-Season Stephanie, as well as from various full-length books of poems. If you are coming to the convention itself (i.e. if you have a badge) please do come to our Friday morning panel (at 9am) on conflicts of interest in book reviewing, with Eric Lorberer of Rain Taxi, Karen Long of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (late of the Cleveland Plain Dealer), Rusty Morrison of Omnidawn Press, and the fiction writer Brian Evenson. I’ll be signing All-Season Stephanie at the Rain Taxi booth in the exhibit hall Friday at 10:30am, after our panel...
“My 1985” in the New Yorker

“My 1985” in the New Yorker

I’ve got a poem called “My 1985” in the March 23, 2015 New Yorker. You can hear me read it aloud too. You can read about some of the things and characters named in that poem here, and here and here; you can also (though I’m not sure that I’d recommend it) hear the original artists’ version of a song that the poem...