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Eastern Iowa Review Issue 8, Chock Full of Prose Poems, Is Out
With a whole big section of prose poems! Check out Eastern Iowa Review’s latest issue here! My prose poems, “Soprano” and “Shayna” are here. To see all the poems, click on the pretty cover of Eastern Iowa Review’s Issue 8 … Continue reading
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Poem of the Day: “Errata” by Charles Simic
Errata Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like a police-whistle Where it says table read horse Where it says horse read my migrant’s bundle Apples are to remain apples Each time a hat appears think of … Continue reading
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News in Prose Poems
Eastern Iowa Review has accepted two of my prose poems (“Soprano” and “Shayna”) for their next edition–check this billboard for details later on! In the meantime, check out the journal–for writers, they are interested in lyric essays and prose poems, … Continue reading
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Screwing Up, Importantly
So I was wondering if maybe you’re putting a load of crap into that one idea that’s bothering you so much, wondering if you could Screw Up so very Importantly. What I mean is this: suppose it is bothering you that … Continue reading
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How I Kiss Her Turning Head, Chapbook or E-book, Available Now!
My prose chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press, is a book with several sketches and short works of fiction about the obsessions and dark thoughts of mothers and babies; it is available for three … Continue reading
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Asunder
meet me in front of a jazz club in new orleans; there i’ll kiss you hard. you have been lover to me through lives upon deaths, your fingers spread in my hair, your demolition kiss a wrecking ball … Continue reading
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The Rings
The Rings My husband was a carpenter with hands so big he could wrap them all the way around me. Since I had put off getting my husband’s wedding ring until the day before the wedding, the artist made … Continue reading
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How I Kiss Her Turning Head, Now Available as fabulous and beautiful Ebook!
My prose chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press, is a book with several sketches and short works of fiction about the obsessions and dark thoughts of mothers and babies; it is available for three … Continue reading
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Halloween
This is for you, a message thirty years later from “Esmeralda the Gypsy,” who read your palm that Halloween, that brilliant, cold fall night when the whole university was out in costume. The maple candy melted in our mouths, and … Continue reading
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Carl Nelson’s Review of How I Kiss Her Turning Head —thank you Carl!
Maternal Horror Jennifer Woodworth’s newest book, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, which is just out by Monkey Puzzle Press, is a most gentle jaunt into the genre of Maternal Horror. ‘Maternal Horror’ is a term I have had … Continue reading
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And now for something completely different, A MixTape!
The really nice online lit mag Little Fiction|Big Truth has a cool feature–their authors make up a mixtape of tunes they listened to while writing the stories in the books they have just writtten. I liked Andrew F. Sullivan’s MixTape … Continue reading
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The New Bop Dead City Is Out!
This lit mag is a nice collection of stories and poems including a powerful three-part poem by Daniel Tobin, the poem “Bar Joke” by Allyson Whipple, and Liz Grear’s story, “The Inside of My Elbows” and several others, not to … Continue reading
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Poem of the Day: The Problem with Burning Down Your Own House by Amorak Huey
This poem has it all–it’s smart and funny and great with conversation and is so goddamn beautiful you will want to cry. Continue reading
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“Avra” by Jennifer Givhan–Poem of the Day
Another poem to feel for days. Jennifer Givhan’s lovely, singing, surprising Avra. Check it out.
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Poem of the day: “Coyote Girl” by Kristina Lucenko
You’ll still be feeling it (in the best way) days later: “Coyote Girl” and other poems by Kristina Lucenko
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How I Kiss Her Turning Head still available!
Monkey Puzzle Press, publisher of my chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, is sadly closed, but my little book is still available from me. Just drop me an email — jen at fish clamor )dot( com. They’re $10, free … Continue reading
Notes on Movies and Favorite Essays
A good poem is the news of a single soul; a good film is the news of maybe a thousand souls. This fact occurred to me a couple years ago and I’ve been trying to catch up on movies ever since. Continue reading
On trying to submit 3-6 poems located on 3-6 devices or WAIT!!!
The inexorable sadness of passwords, after Roethke….plus Dolor, for old time’s sake Continue reading
Heikki Huotari’s book Truth Table soon to be released!
Heikki Huotari’s magnificent lyric poems just released in his chapbook _Truth Table_. Detsils to come! Continue reading
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Wondering about the grammar of another language, say, Dutch,
Does “Who’s on first” even work in Dutch? Continue reading
Some Music I Love: Alela Diane’s album To Be Still
Sometimes I run across something so wonderful I have to pass it on. I don’t really write real reviews very often, but love to share stuff that I’d want to know about myself along with some of the stuff i … Continue reading
A stranger’s wonderful poem-a-day blog
Someone Else’s Wonderful Poem-of-the-Day site! Look what I found! A wonderful site, starring many prose poems and some others, too. Beautifully curated; don’t miss it if you need a little snack.
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Tagged Finest poem read all day, poem of the day, The farmer's son
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Look at this yummy treat found by accident today! Desert Love Poem by Dominika Wrozynski
Found on internet. Surely is published somewhere. I will never find it again it is too deicious not to share from the blog where i found it, a poem of the day blog. Stsnd by. I will find it! Continue reading
Failed Tweets, 1
The Unreliable Narrator is so much fun in 1st person! Not really. OK maybe. 3 liars walk into a bar & the 2nd one is a fish. #failed_tweet 1, #amwriting
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First Book Review By Total Stranger
Originally posted on Fish Clamor:
Small Press Picks reviewed my book, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, and I do not even know the reviewer. Check out the book discussion questions–what fun! Never in my wildest dreams….!
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How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press!
Originally posted on Fish Clamor:
My first prose chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press, was released on May 31, 2014! Get yours now! Available from Monkey Puzzle Press. They have a free sample, too. Tasty!
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Monkey Puzzle Press Announces Winners of their 2013 prose Chapbook contest!
Monkey Puzzle Press announced the results of their 2013 Prose Chapbook contest in their blog, here. I was thrilled that my How I Kiss Her Turning Head (which used to have a different title) won an Honorable Mention. I’ve read … Continue reading
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How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press!
My first prose chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press, was released on May 31, 2014! Get yours now! Available from Monkey Puzzle Press. They have a free sample, too. Tasty!
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