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Joe Campana, Roberto J. Tejada, Justin Jannise, Lyric Hunter, Paige Quinones, and I will read poetry at the CAMH on July 25th at 7 pm. The event is curated in conjunction with the Stonewall at 50 exhibit on display. Find out all the details here.
Color:Story 2019 is art exhibit that exemplifies this concept– that the arts, when combined, create something greater than the sum of their parts. Artists Leslie Gaworecki and Marlo Saucedo asked poets to submit their work for this project. They chose seventeen writers and created paintings based on the selected poems.
The opening for Color:Story 2019 will be Saturday, 5 – 8 pm, at the Silos at Sawyer Yard in Gallery 200. It will be on display until March 23, 2019.
The Silos at Sawyer
1502 Sawyer Street, Houston, Texas 77007
In the realm of good news, Teeth & Teeth made the list of “Best Loved Books in 2018,” according to Headmistress Press. Thank you to everyone who purchased the book. I’m very grateful to Natalie Diaz, who selected it for publication.
Ms. Magazine published a conversation between me and Diane Furtney, another Headmistress Press poet.
My thanks to Catherine Lu for creating a beautiful radio piece about my poetry to close out National Poetry Month at Houston Public Media. You can hear the story here. It’s part of a month-long series about Houston poets called Voices & Visions.
WITS Alliance @ #AWP18 | Booth #812Tampa, Florida |March 7 – 10, 2018
Wednesday, March 7th:
Thursday, March 8th:
with Analicia Sotelo, Dorothea Lasky, Ruben Quesada, Kaveh Akbar, Eve Ewing
Friday, March 9th:
Writers in the Schools (WITS) Alliance invites current and prospective members to attend a general meeting led by Robin Reagler, Executive Director of WITS Houston. We will discuss how to start and/or expand a WITS program in your community, fundraising, strategies for growth, technology in classrooms, and more.
with Jack McBride, Niki Herd, Nicky Beer, Karyna McGlynn, Ramon Isao
with Michele Kotler (Community-Word Project), Martin Rock (Exploratorium), Abby Travis (Milkweed Editions), Thomas Calder (Mountain Xpress), Giuseppe Taurino (University of Houston Creative Writing Program)
Saturday, March 10th:
with Alicia Craven, Kima Jones, Ramiza Koya, Janine Joseph, Desiree Dallagiacomo
with Tina Cane (WITS Rhode Island), Diane Lane (Get Lit), Erin Belieu (Writers Resist), Britt Udesen (LitNet), Nina Ozlu Tunceli (Americans for the Arts)
I’ll do two book signing stints for two new chapbooks at #AWP18 in Tampa. Both will be on Thursday, March 8th, the first day of the conference.
I’ll be signing Dear Red Airplane at the University of Houston booth #1225 at 12 noon. If you’re at the Bookfair, please come thru! It would be great to see/meet you.
Get your copy of Teeth & Teeth and say hi at the Headmistress Press booth #T1932 at the #AWP18 conference in Tampa on Thursday, March 8th, at 2 pm.
A big box of my new chapbook arrived this week. I’m still feeling completely stunned by it. Teeth & Teeth is the winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize, selected by poet Natalie Diaz and published by Headmistress Press. Here’s how Ching-In Chen describes it:
Robin Reagler’s Teeth & Teeth is a wild-mouthed dispatch from the cities of mourning we all inhabit, a desperate love letter to the waiting selves which grow out of exile from normalcy. In the face of the wearing down of the body, despite loss, these poems demand gratitude for the fierce habits of the living. —Ching-In Chen
You can purchase Teeth & Teeth at Headmistress Press or amazon.com.
I’ll be reading poems at Public Poetry on Saturday, January 6, 2018, with Corinna Delgado, Amanda Ortiz, and Miranda Mahoney. Join us at 2 pm at the Jungman Branch (5830 Westheimer Road, Houston, Texas 77057) of the Houston Public Library. FREE
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April 1st marks the beginning of National Poetry Month. If you’re crazy enough to try writing a poem a day during April, home base for this dizzying enterprise is NaPoWriMo.Net. They will offer writing prompts and encouragement all month long. Write About Now is leading a 30/30 group on facebook with prompts and feedback loops. Other sources of inspiration include:
As you discover other NaPoWriMo 2017 sites, please share them in the comment section, and I will add them to this list.
The most recent issue of MAYDAY Magazine features LGBTQ poets, writers, and artists. Heartfelt thanks to the guest editors, Chad Dimock and Amy King, for including my poem “The Heights” in this issue.
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made of magic
magenta-colored plastic
this song
limps with an instep
muscling in the brass
sound with its punk mind-set
I’d say it’s like murder
with an ostentatious backstory
or it’s smashed music
sizzling like an old concept
mashing
to pulp the whittled judicious
biscuits and iconic
red eye gravy.
Here’s a list of sites with prompts to help with NaPoWriMo 2015:
NaPoWriMo
Found Poetry Review
http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/blog/pomosco-celebrating-national-poetry-month-2015/
Poetic Asides
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/2015-april-pad-challenge-guidelines
30 Day Poetry Challenge
https://www.facebook.com/30dpc
Vince Gotera
http://vincegotera.blogspot.com/
This is a list in progress so please suggest other sites, and I will add them.
It’s almost April – once again. And time to face the cruelty known as NaPoWriMo. Who wants to try writing a poem a day starting tomorrow? I’m trying to gather some muster myself. Leave me a link if you’re planning to blog your poems.
