Category Archives: Les Femmes Folles: The Women

March news

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I’m up on the department’s newsletter for March 1. I have poems in The Meadowland Review and in UNL Womanhouse: The House That Feminism Built. My essay “Bicycle Face” appears in Ginger Piglet.

I have five poems forthcoming in the spring issue of Feminist Studies. My poem “Aubade” is forthcoming in Paddlefish and my poem “Our Move, My Climb” is forthcoming in The Delinquent. Later this week to promote my forthcoming chapbook, SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER, I have three poems from that collection, “Guilt Dream: Doing This to Myself,” “A Contemplation of Murder (or Desert Blood),” and “Mummy Treatment,” in Extract(s).

I read in the wonderful Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011 reading at Parallax Space in Lincoln last weekend. My collaborative broadside project has been in the show “Belles Lettres” during the month of March at the Altered Esthetic Art Gallery in Minneapolis.

Finally, SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER is set to release in June from Dancing Girl Press. There will be a chapbook launch in Chicago. So if you’re in the area, stop by for the launch. I keep giggling about the word “launch” in relation to chapbooks and books. Where exactly is the book going to be launched to? Who is doing the launching? Is it a cannon? A slingshot? A rocket? Is it, it can’t be, I think it is….Pigs in Space…..Chapbooks in Space (cue the muppet’s voice over).

LFF & Womanhouse reading

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Sunday, I read with a wonderful line up of readers at the Parallax Space that is currently hosting the show UNL Womanhouse: The House That Feminism Built.

The gallery included an actual house sewn from women’s garments that provoked, for me at least, questions about what it means to be female in today’s culture.

There couldn’t have been a better space to celebrate Sally Deskins’ fantastic book Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011 and blog. Victoria Hoyt introduced and described the project of Womanhouse and Sally offered the background on the necessity of LFF and the response it has received since it’s beginning, early in 2011. Poets and readers included current contributors to her book and blog, and likely, future ones as well, from the Omaha and Lincoln Area, such as Natasha Kessler who co-edits Strange Machine and lincolnites like Lucy Adkins and Marjorie Saiser. Check out Rex Walton’s additional photos for some of the other fantastic featured readers.

I read “The Purse” featured in LFF, “The Widow” and “This Could Be You: Tee-shirt” included in the Womanhouse book, and two poems from my forthcoming chapbook SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER.

What a great way to spend a Sunday!

A Local Reading & Interview Sneak Peaks

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Next weekend, I’m reading with nine fellow poets and writers in Nebraska, some of them featured in LFF in 201, some just featured, and some soon to be featured. I will read the poem in Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011, the two poems in Womanhouse: The House That Feminism Built, and some from my forthcoming chapbooks.

Here’s the info for the reading and a link to the flyer (LFFreadingflyer):

Reading (poetry) in the Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011 with Sally Deskins, Lucy Adkins, Jaime Bruton, Megan Gannon, Natasha Kessler, Marianne Kunkel, and Marjorie Saiser
4 p.m., Saturday March 25, 2012
Parallax Space, 1746 N Street, Lincoln, NE

I hope to see you there! Sally Deskins will be selling copies of her beautiful book and lots of other books and chapbooks from the other writers will be for sale. Actually, I just got word my book-length collection of poetry SPRUNG may be out very, very soon. Yay! If it is out by the reading, I’ll definitely read from it.

And in a chapbook blog series update, coming up soon are interviews with Grace Bauer…

…Lucy Adkin…

…and Kristy Bowen.

I’m so excited!

February News

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I have poems forthcoming in ABZ, The Meadowland Review, Interrobang?! Magazine’s, Roar, and Silver Blade. Womanhouse v4, a local woman centered exhibition, includes two of my poems in their current catalog. I have three poems in Miller’s Pond. My poem “The Purse,” that was performed in the Lit Undressed event last October in Omaha, and an excerpt from the interview “Women of LFF: Laura Madeline Wiseman” in Les Femmes Folles has been collected in Sally Deskins’ anthology of women artists and writers Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2011.

I just received my contributor’s copy of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz. It looks wonderful! And so many great poets! I’m in such good company.

Finally, in slight silly news I’m sorta in Goodnuz, a little ‘zine produced at UNL. It includes the story “Summer Study Trip Explored Mobile, New Media in Russia” on the Russia trip that I went on last summer. I’m in the top photo in Red Square and not named (which is good because it’s not a very good picture of me), but cool to be in the article.

In reading news, I’m reading in early March from my collaborative broadsides with Kate Renee. Here’s the info about the reading and the show:

Reading (poetry) in the Belles Lettres Opening
7:00-10:00 p.m., Friday, March 2, 2012
Altered Esthetics, 1224 Quincy Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Show (poetry) Broadside Collaboration with artwork by Kate Renee
March 1– 29, 2012
Belles Lettres, Altered Esthetic, Minneapolis, MN

I hope to see you there!