Monthly Archives: October 2009

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I just received my contributor’s copy of Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Word published by San Diego City Works Press. It’s such a great anthology! My poem “Chanticleer,” in this amazing book, is also included in my forthcoming chapbook my imaginary from dancing girl press. Lavanderia includes such writers as Tatiana de la Tierra. I met Tatiana when she spoke here at the 2007 No Limits conference. (The call for the 2009 conference is here).

Also, Poemeleon‘s just released their special issue on gender, which includes three of my poems. It’s such a great issue! Check out the work by Davi Walders and Jeannie Hall Gailey.

Illuminations nominated my poem “Wife Brand” for the 2010 Pushcart Prize.

Sure makes for good news.

Matilda in South Dakota

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I’ve just returned from Spearfish, South Dakota where I presented in the 2009 Western Literature Association Conference, “Lecturers, Matriarchs, Writers, Outdoorswomen: Voices from the Placeless Women of the West.” Joining me in the panel were two great writers, a poet scholar on “The Yellow Wallpaper” and a prose writer on gender. I read poems on Matilda Fletcher, the 19th century lecturer and suffragist from Iowa. She too spoke in South Dakota, over a hundred years ago. It was a fantastic panel. Thank you all who attended and who stopped by to say hello after the talk!

Because the conference was in the beautiful Black Hills, I did spend some time site-seeing. I made it over to Devil’s Tower, to Mount Rushmore, to the Bad Lands, and a few other spots, here and there. Even driving through South Dakota I couldn’t help but to think, what an amazing country.