tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58422156759635028722024-03-05T18:25:10.752-05:00Goose HillFrom the Desk of Lindsay LusbyLindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-3541572319806508282019-12-25T21:45:00.000-05:002019-12-25T22:37:12.222-05:00On the end of a year & a decade: 2019<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this last month of the year, I've had five <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/poems.html" target="_blank">poems </a>accepted by three different literary journals and two new <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/reviews.html" target="_blank">reviews</a> of my book appear in <i>The Cincinnati Review</i> and <i><a href="https://www.harbor-review.com/catechesis-a-postpastoral" target="_blank">Harbor Review</a></i>. I also completed the letterpress printing of the Rossetti Prize broadside for <i>American Literary Review</i>, designs for four more <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/broadsides.html" target="_blank">digital broadsides</a>, and the initial edits & contributor proofs for <i><a href="http://www.washcoll.edu/cherrytree" target="_blank">Cherry Tree</a></i>'s sixth issue. <i>Whew!</i> It's been an amazing and overwhelming and utterly fulfilling year</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">; and I'm riding into the new year on 2019's coattails. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />One of my favorite December inventories will always be reflecting on a year's worth of personal accomplishments and progress. By the time the end of the year arrives, it's so easy to forget all that happened just a few short months ago. Making a list has a way of bringing it all into perspective. Here's my roundup for the year:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I released my debut full-length collection, <i><a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">Catechesis: a postpastoral</a></i> (The University of Utah Press, 2019).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had six poems accepted for publication in four literary journals. One poem published in <i><a href="https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/32.1-winter/spring-2020/" target="_blank">Gulf Coast</a></i>, and five forthcoming in <i><a href="http://constructionlitmag.com/" target="_blank">Construction</a></i>, <i><a href="https://newsouthjournal.com/" target="_blank">New South</a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.museajournal.com/" target="_blank">Muse/A Journal</a></i>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had one poem reprinted by the <a href="https://poets.org/poem/you-are-my-lucky-star" target="_blank">Academy of American Poets</a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I gave ten <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">poetry readings</a> at nine venues in three states. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wrote six poems and one (my first!) lyric essay.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wrote & published my first book review in <i><a href="http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/83/lusby_r.php" target="_blank">The Cortland Review</a></i>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I designed nine <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/broadsides.html" target="_blank">letterpress broadsides</a> for the Literary House Press and <i>American Literary Review</i>. I also designed 15 <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/broadsides.html" target="_blank">digital broadsides</a> for six poets—a new freelance graphic design venture for me. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And since the end of this year also marks the end of a decade, I've decided to zoom out even further with my list-making. In January 2010, I was 23 years old. I had graduated from college about a year and a half before. I was working full-time as a library assistant at the public library in town (where I had worked part-time since high school). I was renting the apartment attached to my grandmother's house on Goose Hill with one cat and one dog</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—and I had just recently started this blog. I was writing poems as much as I could and actively submitting them to literary journals, but I hadn't yet received my first acceptance (which wouldn't come until fall 2011). So much has changed since then; and so much is still left to change in the next ten years. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wrote & published one full-length poetry collection and two chapbooks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wrote & published 38 poems in 23 magazines and anthologies.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I made & published seven visual poems in two magazines.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I won two poetry contests—one for an individual poem and one for a full-length manuscript. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wrote my first lyric essay. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I co-edited & published two poetry anthologies for the Literary House Press.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I helped found a literary journal for the Literary House Press, then edited & published six print issues. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I helped edit & publish three illustrated letterpress chapbooks for the Literary House Press.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I designed (or helped design) a total of 53 letterpress broadsides—49 for the Literary House Press and four for private clients. Of these, I also printed 22 myself on LHP's Vandercook 4.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I helped found & run a young writers' conference for four summers. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I gave two panel presentations at two literary conferences. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I helped organize & run a booth/table at five AWP Conferences, repping our literary center and selling books, broadsides, & journal subscriptions. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I gave 17 poetry readings & talks at 13 different venues. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I co-hosted a public type-in & letter-writing event in my hometown with a good friend. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I helped found, organize, & run an annual book festival in my hometown.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm incredibly proud of all I've accomplished in the last decade, of how many writing goals I've been able to realize. But at the same time, I'm already feeling the pull of the tide of the next ten years. Change (and the need for it) electrifies the air around me and those I love. It makes me both anxious and excited, but I'm looking to the future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's a lot left to plan and do in this next year, the start of a brand-new decade, but here's some of what I've got lined up so far: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />As always, if you or your program/reading series/bookstore/library/etc. would like to have me come for a visit, please reach out to me at</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" target="_blank">my e</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" target="_blank">mail address</a>! I'm currently looking at dates for</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">summer & fall 20</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">20</a> for poetry readings, talks on poetry craft, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm wishing all of you a happy, healthy, & poetry-filled new year! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xo</span></div>
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-21025472895937620412019-11-16T00:50:00.000-05:002019-11-16T00:55:00.715-05:00Fall is for poets (but so is winter)<i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Titles are hard. It's been another busy couple of months since my last update. Here's a quick recap of the fall so far: </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">September and October were full of readings at home and in the Philadelphia area. I celebrated my dear friend Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's book launch for her collection <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44671354-the-many-names-for-mother" target="_blank">The Many Names for Mother</a></i>. And Julia and I read with our friend Nancy Reddy for our (M)other(ship) events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I visited a very welcoming English 101 class at Washington College and talked to them about <i>Catechesis</i> and poems and fairy tales. They were such a smart, curious, and very insightful group. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was also lucky enough to receive two very generous book <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/reviews.html" target="_blank">reviews</a> for <i>Catechesis</i> so far this fall. Here are some highlights: </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jessica Drake-Thomas, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://thisweekiread.home.blog/2019/10/21/this-week-i-read-lindsay-lusbys-catechesis/" target="_blank">This Week, I Read</a></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In Catechesis, Lusby not only subverts liturgical catechesis via creating her own transfiguration narratives and imagery, but she also offers a bad-ass tribute to Silence of the Lambs and Alien, two thrillers featuring female protagonists pitted against evil. Whether composing "traditional" poems, or crafting visual poetry, Lusby deftly creates, deconstructs, and bridges high and low culture.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've also been lining up some <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">readings and talks</a> for Winter/Spring 2020. There are still some potential events in the works, but this is what I've got on the books right now:</span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">University of Utah Guest Writers Series: A Reading by Kimiko Hahn & Lindsay Lusby</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, January 16 at The University of Utah, Finch Lane Gallery in Salt Lake City, UT.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Life After the Book Deal: A Talk about Publishing & Marketing </b><i>(working title)</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—Saturday, February 1 at the Kent County Public Library in Chestertown, MD.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>The Turning Wheel Reading Series</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—Thursday, February 13 at DogStar Books in Lancaster, PA.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>NHCC Meet the </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>Authors Reading Series</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—February 2020 (exact date & time TBD) at North Hennepin Community College in Minneapolis, MN. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>University of Cincinnati Clermont Poetry Series</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—Wednesday, April 8 at UC Clermont in Cincinnati, OH.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last month, my poem "Presswife" was published in the new issue of <i><a href="https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/32.1-winter/spring-2020/" target="_blank">Gulf Coast</a></i>. Such a big, gorgeous volume and my poem about historical American women, letterpress printing, and the Japanese fairytale, "The Crane Wife," gets three whole pages to herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've been taking on a number of freelance broadside design jobs lately, building up my graphic design portfolio. I've had the pleasure, so far, of working with poets: Mary Ardery, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Justin Hamm, Kelly Grace Thomas, and Amie Whittemore. I'm hoping there will be many more to come! For more info about my broadside design services, you can check out my website <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/broadsides.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Issue 6 of <i><a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree</a></i> is currently in production. After a busy open reading period, we've accepted incredible poems, stories, and essays from a whopping 49 contributors</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—even our first translation</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">! I've been busy compiling contributor bios and publication contracts, arranging the issue specs with our printer, overseeing the work of our Production Intern as she completes the initial layout and typesetting of the volume, and various other managing editor tasks. Soon it will be time to perform the deep proofread, compile proofs and style sheets, and send the proofs out to the contributors</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">—all </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">before the Winter Holiday Break. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My final piece of news is that I will be serving as a preliminary judge for the <a href="https://www.tupelopress.org/dorset-prize/" target="_blank">2020 Dorset Prize</a> from Tupelo Press. For the month of January, I will be knee-deep in poetry manuscripts and I am so thrilled to have this privilege. The contest deadline is December 31, so if you have a full-length poetry manuscript ready for sending, I hope you'll consider submitting it to this contest. All submissions will be read blind (without identifying information). And the final judge for this year's contest is the magnanimous Maggie Smith! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For now: the moon is waxing, the autumn is waning, and the days are getting shorter, darker, and colder. Every season is a poet's season. Stay cozy!</span></div>
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My book<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—<i><a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">Catechesis: a postpastoral</a></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—has taken me to a few new and familiar places this summer. I got to meet my book for the first time in Hillsborough, NC at the <a href="https://bullcitypress.com/reading-series/previous-readings/" target="_blank">Bull City Press House Party Reading</a> on July 27. They were sent ahead directly from the printer and my Bull City Press hosts even wrapped the box in Christmas paper for me! I got to open it among some wonderful new friends and then read from it to a very gracious audience, alongside <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jonathan-farmer" target="_blank">Jonathan Farmer</a>, <a href="https://fourwayreview.com/consent-by-jennifer-funk/" target="_blank">Jennifer Funk</a>, and <a href="https://bullcitypress.com/authors/c-t-salazar/" target="_blank">C.T. Salazar</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Back home in Chestertown, MD, I hosted family and friends for my hometown book launch on August 15 at the Rose O'Neill Literary House. Poets & friends <a href="https://www.erindorney.com/" target="_blank">Erin Dorney</a> and <a href="http://www.sallyrosenkindred.com/" target="_blank">Sally Rosen Kindred</a> shared the mic with me! There was a gorgeous pistachio cake with my book cover on it, carnivorous plants, delicious cheeses, fruit, & veggies. Even my nephew Phoenix (my youngest, cutest fan) was there to celebrate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also debuted my letterpress broadside there, featuring one of the poems in the book and original art by fabulous artist & friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/greyfoxgirl/" target="_blank">Emily Kalwaitis</a>! Printed by me in the Lit House print shop back in May. (There are still copies available! <a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" target="_blank">Email me</a> if you want to buy one!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last weekend on August 24, my book and I drove up to Philadelphia for the first (M)other(ship) reading with <a href="https://www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com/" target="_blank">Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach</a> and <a href="http://www.nancyreddy.com/" target="_blank">Nancy Reddy</a> at <a href="https://anovelideaphilly.com/" target="_blank">A Novel Idea on Passyunk</a>. We read a wide range of poems about mothers and motherhood, mine being about MU/TH/UR (the ship computer in <i>Alien</i>), a fairytale girl who gives birth to an apple, and a few new poems that examine the mother-daughter dynamic in <i>Poltergeist</i>. A Novel Idea is a <i>fabulous</i> little indie bookstore owned and run by <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/12/18/a-novel-idea-on-passyunk/" target="_blank">two fabulous people</a>. I had such a wonderful time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Julia, Nancy, and I will be giving the second of our (M)other(ship) readings next week: Wednesday, September 4 at 7:00 p.m. at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA. I hope you'll join us! If it's anything like the first one we gave, I promise you won't be disappointed. I've got <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">a few more readings</a> lined up for this fall, as well:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>The Many Names for Mother</i> Philly Book Launch with Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Isabel Díaz, Laura Eve Engel, Olga Livshin, Maya Pindyck, & Michelle Whittaker—</b>Friday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. at L'Etage in Philadelphia.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>(M)other(ship): A Mother of a Poetry Reading with Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach & Nancy Reddy—</b>Saturday, October 12 at 5:00 p.m. at The Bookplate in Chestertown.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Zed's Poetry Series & Open Mic—</b>Friday, December 6 at 6:00 p.m. at Zed's Cafe in Silver Spring, MD.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've got a few events lined up so far for early 2020 as well, but I'm always up for booking more! If you'd like me to read in your town or at your institution, please <a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me</a> and we can work out some details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even with all of this extroversion and book release mayhem going on, I've managed a little bit of new writing and good news for new writing this summer. My poem <a href="https://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2018/08/on-summer-writing-and-fall-reading.html" target="_blank">"Presswife"</a></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">—</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that combines women of early American history and printing and witchcraft and the Japanese "Crane Wife" folktale</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">—</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been accepted for publication in the next issue of dream journal <i><a href="https://gulfcoastmag.org/" target="_blank">Gulf Coast</a></i>! I'm so happy that this particular letterpress-lady poem (which took several months to write and is a whopping three pages long!) has found such an amazing print home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also wrote my first-ever lyric essay this summer! It's called "You Never Think It Could Happen to You: A Reckoning with True Crime" and it explores the sudden POV shift to second-person in the witness interview segments of true crime shows, while delving into what draws me so strongly to true crime TV and movies, my relationship with my mother and my Catholic upbringing, and how the idea of violence shapes us as women. It ended up at 1,867 words</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">—</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is a lot for a writer of (almost) entirely short poems. I've started sending it out to literary magazines over the last month. I had such fun playing with poetic ideas in this more expansive form</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">—</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm excited to work on a second lyric essay some time soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, that's all for now. Fall is coming and I have a beautiful book to walk into the next season with. Thank you so much to <a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">The University of Utah Press</a> and Hannah New and Kimiko Hahn for this incredible gift. There are so many obligations left that I must rise to meet in these next few months, but I will take every moment that I can to marvel at this gorgeous object and to feel how lucky I am to be here now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>P.S. If you've read and enjoyed </i>Catechesis <i>and maybe have a few words to say about it, I'd be so grateful if you'd leave a review for it on </i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43319805-catechesis" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Goodreads </a><i>and/or </i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catechesis-Postpastoral-Shahid-Prize-Poetry/dp/1607816970" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Amazon</a><i>. All of these little things really help my little book to flourish in this big world.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-72531032527658819262019-05-22T18:10:00.000-04:002019-07-11T01:40:06.454-04:00On looking up and looking ahead<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And just like that, here comes summer. Somehow, it is almost time for my book</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—my debut poetry collection</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—to be released. I've been reviewing</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a second round of proofs, as well as the full cover, and it's all looking amazing! <i><a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">Catechesis: a </a></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">postpastoral</a></i> is due out next month; and the closer we get to June, the less real all of this feels. I think it will only be truly real to me when I have the finished book in my hands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although my Chestertown book launch party in August is easily the event I'm most excited for this summer and fall, I'm also really looking forward to a mini reading series that I'm doing with friends and poets Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Nancy Reddy: "(M)other(ship): A Mother of Poetry Reading." Julia and Nancy will be reading their incredible poems about motherhood (some of which are featured in Issue 5 of <i>Cherry Tree</i></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/subscriptions.php" target="_blank">get a copy</a>!), and I will read my <i>Alien</i> poems about the ship computer MU/TH/UR, as well as my fairy tale poems about the "Girl who Gave Birth to an Apple." I might even be able to read some of my new <i>Poltergeist</i> poems about ghost-fighting mom-badass Diane Freeling. Here's the official event series description:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>You think you know poems about motherhood? Poets Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Lindsay Lusby, and Nancy Reddy bring you poems that are almost animal, slightly alien in their grit and intensity. From the vulnerability of the maternity ward to the horror of the space vessel </i>Nostromo<i>, the word "Mother" takes on many meanings, all of them simultaneously strange and familiar. This poetry reading and book-signing will even include a writing exercise for the audience. Join us!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In setting up all of <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">my events</a>, I also created all of my own event posters and tour graphics. I'm mostly self-taught from on-the-job experience, but it's work that I enjoy doing; and it's definitely come in handy now that I need to market myself at a professional level without having any budget to pay for it. After seeing my work, a poet-friend asked me to make a tour graphic for her as well</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">which is when I realized others (who also don't have agency representation or a marketing team) may have need for a service like this. So I've begun offering <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/graphic-design-for-poets.html" target="_blank">my services as a freelance graphic designer</a>, specifically for poets (and writers) looking for event marketing and book tour graphics. I'm currently offering two flat-rate packages at reasonable prices; but since accessibility is one of my main goals in doing this work, I am also open to negotiating custom rates or mutually-beneficial barter agreements for those with tighter budgets. If you're a poet or writer in need of my graphic design services, just let me know! You can fill out one of my online <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/graphic-design-for-poets.html" target="_blank">forms</a>, or send me an <a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've also recently begun making and selling <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/vispo-originals.html" target="_blank">VisPo Originals</a>: originals of one-of-a-kind visual poems. I've sold one so far, and there are three others completed and available on my website. I'll continue to make more, as time and inclination allows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although I'm primarily taking on these side ventures because I enjoy the process of making them, I must admit that my other goal is to earn enough money to offset some of the new expenses I'll be taking on in the promotion of my book: traveling to non-paying reading gigs (for which I am still <i>very</i> grateful), printing promotional materials like business cards, catering for my hometown book launch, a few new outfits for giving readings in (my wardrobe has gotten pretty shabby lately), even the up-front costs for buying additional author copies of my book before I'm able to sell them at readings & signing events. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now that the spring semester is over, I've been having a much-needed week off work to recuperate. I'll be heading into the print shop at the Lit House tomorrow to print the letterpress broadsides for my book launch. I'm still looking to book additional reading events for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020. And in the meantime, I'm also trying to get more new poems written, when I'm not at my full-time job or doing promotional work for <i>Catechesis</i>. I've gotten the first three <i>Poltergeist </i>poems written, and I'm working on a fourth now. Here's to a productive and (if possible) restorative summer! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I received the first proofs of my book a few weeks ago, made my corrections, and returned them to the press last Friday. We are currently on schedule for the book to be released in June! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've solidified plans for my hometown book launch party & reading! Poets and friends <a href="https://www.erindorney.com/" target="_blank">Erin Dorney</a>, <a href="http://www.sallyrosenkindred.com/" target="_blank">Sally Rosen Kindred</a>, and <a href="http://www.emmasovich.com/" target="_blank">Emma Sovich</a> will join me on <b>Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.</b> at the Rose O'Neill Literary House to officially welcome my book to world. We will each read a few poems, then there will be a book sale & signing, as well as refreshments. Mark your calendars! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last week I received word that the first review for <i>Catechesis</i> has been lined up with a fantastic literary magazine. The reviewer will take a peek at the current proofs and the review itself should appear some time in the fall in this magazine's next print issue. And speaking of magazines, <i>Catechesis</i> made a brief appearance in the March/April issue of <i>Poets & Writers</i>, thanks to a lovely ad from The University of Utah Press. (The <a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">preorders </a>are already coming in!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://uofupress.com/ali-poetry-prize.php" target="_blank">The 2019 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize</a> is now open for submissions! If you are a poet currently looking for a publisher for a finished full-length manuscript, you should absolutely take your chances with this contest. The deadline for submissions is April 15.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last weekend, Mychael Zulauf interviewed me for a new episode of the <i>so . . . poetry?</i> podcast. We had a long conversation about almost-everything poetry: from writing books and individual poems to editing both poetry and prose in literary journals to our mutual love of the chapbook as a form. If you want to listen, you can find <b>Season 4, Episode 4: "The Symphony of the Book"</b> online <a href="https://soundcloud.com/sopoetry/season-4-episode-4-the-symphony-of-the-book?fbclid=IwAR1SIcUgLvJWlTlsLw_5VfG8tqL_nBngKtZIuUnBMF1TQo2KaM2cBiDhniI" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Somehow the annual <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview" target="_blank">AWP Conference</a> is only a week and a half away now! I'll be there in Portland, OR from <b>March 27-30</b> with my Rose O'Neill Literary House team. We'll be in the Bookfair at Booth 6054 with our books, broadsides, and Issue 5 of <i>Cherry Tree</i>. Stop by to see us! Maybe <a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/subscriptions.php" target="_blank">subscribe</a> to <i>Cherry Tree</i> while you're there?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And just today I received the good news that I have been selected to read as part of the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/eastern-shore-voices/salisbury-poetry-week-reading-featuring-jane-satterfield/2257240227847944/" target="_blank">Eastern Shore Voices Poetry Reading</a> on April 4 at 7:00 p.m.</b> in the Worcester Room at Salisbury University, alongside Michael Blane, Beth Dulin, Dolores Hoffman, Jane C. Miller, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nancy Mitchell,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Adam Tavel, Stephen Scott Whitaker, and Salisbury's 2019 Poet-in-Residence, Jane Satterfield. If you're on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, please join us for this ensemble reading event to kick off this year's National Poetry Month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With my first book on the way, I've been hard at work on writing new poems. I have three poems about women in letterpress printing (and letterpress printing in women) making the rounds in the lit mag slush piles. Hopefully one or more of those will find publication homes in the next few months (fingers crossed!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My newest writing projects are a clear continuation of the work I began in <i>Catechesis: a postpastoral</i>, but I do hope that these poems will move in new directions and make new discoveries.<i> </i>I've been experimenting with a series of visual poems that collage image and text erasures from <i>Olcott's Field Book of the Skies</i> (Putnam, 1954), <i>The Occult: A History by Colin Wilson</i> (Random House, 1971), and a book of wildflowers. Most recently, I've landed on a new mini-project: writing poems about the 1982 horror film <i>Poltergeist</i>, using lines of dialogue from the movie for poem titles. I've completed the first poem, "We were wondering if you had experienced any disturbances lately." And I'm beginning the drafting of the next one, "This house has many hearts." </span></div>
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-63137759758937964872019-01-26T14:42:00.003-05:002019-01-26T14:43:14.256-05:00On my book promotion and booking me<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In anticipation of my book's release in late spring, I am beginning to work more on some promotion and marketing, which is an inextricable part of being a publishing writer now. I've started putting out the word that I am booking readings and other events for Fall 2019 and Spring 2020, so others can get in touch about booking me or putting together joint readings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm going to start initiating conversations with some other poets and writers with whom I would love to read and venues I'd love to visit. I'm also working on planning my official hometown book launch reading/party for </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Catechesis</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, which will probably be mid-August. For now, if you would like to book me for a reading, or you know someone else who might, or if you want to plan a joint reading with me, </span><a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">send me an email</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and let's get talking!</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm also doing some other little fun things like designing and ordering book business cards! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book promotion circus is just getting started and it's very exciting, but I can also see that it's going to be an exhausting ride. I'm just doing my best to keep up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then there are the days that beautiful things arrive in the mail and I know I can stick with it. A couple weeks ago, the official Spring/Summer 2019 Catalog from The University of Utah </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Press showed up in my mailbox. Check out page 6!</span><br />
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-62489232781967803552018-12-24T00:45:00.002-05:002018-12-28T01:19:51.036-05:00On 2018 and my year in poetry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These end-of-year personal inventories are something I really look forward to once December arrives. Some years feel so incredibly long because of everything that manages to happen in world news in a twelve-month period</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so it becomes really easy to forget about the things I accomplished just a few months earlier<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 16px;">—</span>especially when my work life is so busy that it feels like I barely manage to lift my head up enough to work on any of my personal goals. These inventories give me back a much-needed sense of perspective that I can </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so easily</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> lose sight of. So, here are all of the poetry accomplishments I managed this year:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had poems published in print journals <i><a href="https://www.passagesnorth.com/issue-39/" target="_blank">Passages North</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.cincinnatireview.com/issue/15-2/" target="_blank">The Cincinnati Review</a></i>. My first visual poems were also published online in <i><a href="http://www.dreampoppress.net/lindsay-lusby/" target="_blank">Dream Pop Press</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.duendeliterary.org/lindsay-lusby" target="_blank">Duende</a></i>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My second chapbook was published by Porkbelly Press in April: <i><a href="https://porkbellypress.com/poetry/blackbird" target="_blank">Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</a></i>. Each copy is hand-stitched with a beautiful letterpress cover. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In September, <a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/live/galleries/3877-a-reading-by-dr-kimberly-quiogue-andrews-amp" target="_blank">I read from this new chapbook</a> alongside fellow poet Kimberly Quiogue Andrews at the Rose O'Neill Literary House. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In November, <a href="https://twitter.com/lindsaylusby/status/1061466686895857664" target="_blank">I gave a poetry publishing talk</a> with James Allen Hall at the Kent County Public Library. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I actually managed to earn a little money from poetry this year too! I got paid for a magazine publication, for giving a public talk about poetry, and I sold quite a few signed copies of both of my chapbooks. All in all, it ended up being a few hundred bucks that I didn't have before. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a 9-month hiatus following the completion of my first full-length manuscript, I finally broke through and wrote four new poems, three of which I really, really like. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In August, Kimiko Hahn chose my full-length manuscript <i><a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">Catechesis: a postpastoral</a></i> for the <a href="http://uofupress.com/ali-poetry-prize.php" target="_blank">2018 Agha Shahid Ali Prize</a> at The University of Utah Press! It is scheduled for publication in spring 2019. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This final item is obviously the biggest thing to happen to me this year (or any year up until now!). To say that I never expected this would be an understatement. Since then, <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/publications.html" target="_blank">my book</a> has gotten a gorgeous cover, an ISBN, a foreword from the magnanimous Kimiko Hahn, and blurbs from three incredible poets: Matthea Harvey, Sara Eliza Johnson, and Joyelle McSweeney. Here's that cover, which I am absolutely in love with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cover designer at The University of Utah Press took elements from two of my visual poems and then recombined them in this new and captivating way. I love the color too. By this time next year, my book will be a real object I can hold in my hands. <a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/catechesis/" target="_blank">But it is available for preorder directly from the publisher right now!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This has been a HUGE year for me. There are so many good things from this past year that I am so very grateful for. There was also a lot of stress and struggle in my work and personal lives, but I'm grateful for that too. My writing goals for 2019 are: to successfully launch <i>Catechesis</i> into the world, to plan some readings for after the book is out, and to write as many new poems as I can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wishing you all a happy end-of-2018 and a happy new year. Thank you, friends! </span></div>
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-1914779765608936892018-11-03T00:28:00.001-04:002019-11-13T00:57:45.817-05:00"Practice Makes Published" & other upcoming poetry events<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On Saturday, November 10, I will be giving a talk on poetry & publishing with my good friend and colleague James Allen Hall at 11:00 a.m. at the Kent County Public Library in Chestertown! Do you have questions about how to get started with publishing your poetry and how to go about getting it out in the world? Then please come to our event and bring your questions with you! James and I will be giving advice from our experience on both sides of the fence</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as writers and as editors. I'm finishing up my notes and handouts this weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In other news, book production for <i>Catechesis</i> is moving along at a very steady pace! I've secured blurbs from two dream poets. The University of Utah Press has sent me a draft of a cover design that I absolutely love, as well as a sneak peek at the foreword Kimiko Hahn has been writing for it. Soon the U of U Press 2019 catalog will be out with the very first preview of the book as object<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—as more than just manuscript.</span> All of these beautiful and exciting things will be revealed soon, but not quite yet. It's all happening so very quickly, and also not fast enough. I am ecstatic and anxious and thrilled and exhausted. I just. Can't. Wait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We've also been discussing details around my upcoming reading at the University of Utah to celebrate the release of the book, by invitation of the U of U Creative Writing Program. I will be reading from <i>Catechesis: a postpastoral</i> alongside the amazing Kimiko Hahn on January 16, 2020! So, if you can make it out to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Salt Lake City, please mark your calendars and save this magical date. Here's hoping I don't faint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I just received a slightly-belated yes from a third dream poet for blurbing my book!! I'm definitely going to faint. xoxo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This past month has been the most wonderfully surreal one of my life. I've been working on my U of U Press author questionnaire with things like cover art ideas, names of writers to ask for blurbs, and drafting some promotional copy for the book. The latter was quite a challenge</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thinking about my own work from the outside, as a reader and a marketer. But it ended up being a pretty fun exercise. I feel like I have a better understanding of my own work now; and I'm better able to explain what my work is "about":</span><br />
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follow, what would they tell us? “A girl has two choices: / to be a tree or /
to be the forest.” </i>Catechesis
<i>combines Grimm fairy tale with understated horror movie and the Book of
Revelation to construct a vision of the lush green dangers and apocalyptic
transformations inherent in girlhood. This lyric lore, which includes curious
diagrams and collages of the botanical and the anatomical, contains hidden
instruction to prepare girls for the hazards ahead. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>In retelling them alongside other Grimm-style stories, the poet turns
horror classics </i>The Silence of the Lambs<i>
and </i>Alien <i>into macabre fairy tales in
their own right. There is violence and decay here, but also a wild, overgrown
beauty. Mothers and fathers are as much a part of this treacherous landscape as
the carnivorous flora and shape-shifting fauna; and their effects are just as
devastating. Framing all of this within biblical
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Catechesis</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> <i>is a hybrid
collection of textual and visual poems that examine belief and obsession. They
explore the ways beauty leads to danger and how danger births another kind of
beauty, in a cycle of creation and destruction. This book holds its mythology
close; but it holds its truth even closer. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am incredibly grateful to Kimiko, to The University of Utah Press, and to all of my friends and mentors who helped me get here, especially Jehanne Dubrow, James Allen Hall, and Emma Sovich. </span>Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-71005104262439403272018-08-15T01:38:00.000-04:002018-08-15T01:47:13.685-04:00On summer writing and fall reading<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Somehow it's already mid-August. I've spent most of the summer laboring (read: obsessing) over the writing of a single new poem. "Presswife" frames the story of six colonial American printers' wives who took over the business when their husbands died as a kind of retelling of one of my favorite fairy tales, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuru_no_Ongaeshi" target="_blank">"The Crane Wife."</a> It weaves (fairytale pun intended) together letterpress printing, strong women of history, and fairy tale, with a diction and narrative that leans toward the witchy. And I'm <i>almost</i> finished writing it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was another busy summer at the Rose O'Neill Literary House, the highlight of which was our third annual <a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/programs/the-cherry-tree-young-writers-conference/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree Young Writers' Conference</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—a 4-day, 3-night marathon with 16 (amazing!) high-school creative writers. We also spent a little time in the print shop, printing one brand-new broadside and the second edition of a bestseller broadside. Now, we're two weeks into the open reading period for <i><a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree</a></i>'s fifth(!) issue and hip-deep in submissions. I love that the coming of fall has now become synonymous with wading through a tide of new submissions for the next issue of <i>Cherry Tree</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Coming up this fall, I have two poetry events that I'm very much looking forward to. In September, I'll be reading from my new chapbook alongside friend and colleague Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, whose new chapbook <i>BETWEEN </i>has just been published by Finishing Line Press. Our <a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/live/events/20764-a-tea-talk-with-dr-kimberly-quiogue-andrews" target="_blank">Literary House Tea & Talk</a> will be on <b>Wednesday, September 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Rose O'Neill Literary House</b>, and there will be refreshments! Then in November, I'll be giving a talk on poetry and publishing with another friend and colleague, James Allen Hall. <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">"Practice Makes Published: Getting Your Poems into Print"</a> will take place on <b>Saturday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. at the Kent County Public Library</b>. This will be an interactive discussion that encourages audience questions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My last few bits of news from this summer: another of my <i>Alien </i>poems has been accepted for publication! "You are my lucky star." will be published in the winter 2018 issue of <i><a href="https://www.cincinnatireview.com/" target="_blank">The Cincinnati Review</a></i>. I'm so thrilled about this! I can't wait to see the print issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And although I missed it when it was published originally, I recently found a new-to-me review of my first chapbook! Reviewer Angelina D'Roza wrote some very generous words about <i>Imago </i>over at <i><a href="http://sabotagereviews.com/2016/03/21/imago-by-lindsay-lusby/" target="_blank">Sabotage Reviews</a></i> back in 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a sweltering summer, the promise of fall's fresh coolness and newness is more welcome than just about anything. Until it arrives, I'll be dreaming of chai lattes and flannel shirts and ghost hunting shows.</span>Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-9170602550649435572018-05-09T23:59:00.001-04:002018-05-10T00:14:19.938-04:00On my (national) poetry month<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The past month has been so full of personal poetry goodness! Here are some highlights:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On April 11, my second chapbook <i>Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</i> was released from Porkbelly Press! It is a beautiful handmade book with a letterpress cover & stab binding. Copies are available for purchase <a href="https://porkbellypress.com/poetry/blackbird" target="_blank">directly from the publisher</a>. If you are interested in reviewing this chapbook, you can <a href="mailto:lindsay.lusby@gmail.com" target="_blank">contact me</a> about a review copy. If you've read & liked it, please feel free to leave a review on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39981451-blackbird-whitetail-redhand" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>. (Thank you so much to fabulous fellow poets Sally Rosen Kindred & Kate Gaskin, who have already done so!) I'll also be reading from this new chap for a <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">Tea & Talk event</a> on September 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Rose O'Neill Literary House with poet, colleague, & friend <a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/live/profiles/12604-kimberly-quiogue-andrews" target="_blank">Kimberly Quiogue Andrews</a>. Kim's new chapbook <i><a href="https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/between-by-kimberly-quiogue-andrews-nwvs-141/" target="_blank">Between</a> </i>is out very soon from Finishing Line Press!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On April 15, I received news that my poem "Wait a minute, there's movement. It seems to have life</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">organic life" was nominated for <i>Best New Poets 2018</i> by the wonderful <i><a href="https://twitter.com/PassagesNorth/status/985583614732722177" target="_blank">Passages North</a></i>! This is my first such nomination and I am thrilled. I've submitted the poem for consideration and crossed my fingers. And then, shortly after my April birthday, four of my graduating Lit House students presented me with the best gift I've ever received. In secret, they letterpress-printed a limited-edition broadside of this poem of mine, on which they then drew and watercolor-painted each illustration by hand. <i>And how perfect is this illustration?!</i> Caroline, Brooke, Casey, & Mallory: you are some of the best & kindest people I know, and I'm going to miss you all</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And on May 1, five of my visual poems were published in the new <a href="http://www.duendeliterary.org/lindsay-lusby" target="_blank">States of Mind Issue of <i>Duende</i></a>! Four are from my series called "The Dragon," which are botanical/anatomical collages based on the movie <i>Alien</i>: "(false dragonhead / plate 170)," "(jack-in-the-pulpit / plate 2)," "(round-leaved sundew & venus flytrap / plate 74)," & "(swamp pink / plate 35)." The other is from my series "Lamb of Law," which applies the same ideas to <i>The Silence of the Lambs</i>: "(hooded skullcap / plate 171)." All are part of my full-length manuscript <i>Catechesis: a postpastoral</i>, alongside their textual poem companions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then this past weekend, I finished up my latest poem for the <i>Women's Work</i> letterpress-lady-poems project: "Girl as Vandercook 4 Proof Press." And now I've begun sending out a batch of these new poems to literary journals. I'm excited to see where these end up, and to keep writing more of them! </span><br />
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<br />Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-45581219417359014532018-04-07T20:44:00.001-04:002018-04-07T20:44:49.029-04:00On letters from the editors<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's been a year since I finished writing my first full-length poetry manuscript <i>Catechesis: a postpastoral</i>. It's been a little less than that since I started sending it out to open reading periods and book contests. And it's been a fairly vulnerable process, more so than submitting individual poems to lit mags, to which I've mostly numbed myself after ten years. Every time I submit my manuscript to another press, I'm sending out four whole years of my writing life at once. It feels like I'm sending Everything That Means Anything To Me; this project that has been the center of my creative life for so long that I didn't know what to even try writing about when it was finally completed. And, of course, it's the first time I've ever done this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've now submitted my manuscript to 24 book contests and open reading periods. I've spent $529 on submission fees. From these, I've received thirteen form rejections and there are nine places that I'm still waiting to hear from. But there have been two particularly bright spots for my little book-in-the-making in the past few months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In November, I received the news that <i>Catechesis</i> was named a <b>semi-finalist</b> for the 2018 Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press by way of this lovely letter, which also included a short personal note from series editor Ron Wallace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then just this week, I received another one of these letters, this one telling me that <i>Catechesis</i> was named a <b><a href="https://www.tupelopress.org/2018/04/06/the-results-of-the-2018-dorset-prize/" target="_blank">finalist</a></b> for the 2018 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press, judged by Dana Levin! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, neither of these yields anything as tangible as a publishing contract. But the encouragement and validation is a much-needed boost. It is permission to continue believing in the value of this book I've written, that it's only a matter of time until it makes it to the right press and the right editor at the right time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All this and my new chapbook <i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/175960719/chapbook-pre-order" target="_blank">Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</a></i> will be released </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">in only a matter of days </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">from the amazing Porkbelly Press, where they are having a <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WickedLittleHeart" target="_blank">20%-off-orders-of-$20-or-more sale</a>. <b>Happy National Poetry Month!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-42258703698940215122018-02-10T23:30:00.003-05:002018-02-12T20:49:08.684-05:00On Pantone & printing & poems<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">On February 1, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Dream Pop Press</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> published </span><a href="http://www.dreampoppress.net/lindsay-lusby/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">my first two visual poems</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> in their </span><a href="http://www.dreampoppress.net/winter-2018/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">Winter 2018 Issue</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">! "</span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(lady's thumb / plate 45)</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">" and "</span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(nightshade & bittersweet / plate 173)</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">" are both poem-collages from my </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Silence of the Lambs</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> series. The latter of these even made the front of the issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In other good news, I've also finally broken out of my 9-month writing slump. My new pieces are feminist letterpress/printshop poems for <i><a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/in-progress.html" target="_blank">Women's Work</a></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">—</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">my in-progress collaborative chapbook with fellow poet-printer <a href="http://www.emmasovich.com/" target="_blank">Emma Sovich</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's a funny feeling picking up an old project again. But I feel even better equipped to write these poems now that I've had a few more years to steep in broadside printing and letterpress love. I'm especially excited about the poem I'm working on right now, titled <b>"Girl as Pantone Matching System."</b> It's all about ink-mixing and menstruation. It's made up of short lyric sections that are each titled with a different PMS number</span><i style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">—</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">all of which are, naturally, different shades of menstrual blood. Writing alongside my Pantone formula guide has been such a strange and fun combination of my two favorite art forms. </span><br />
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<br />Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-36787668001095404512017-12-31T17:48:00.001-05:002017-12-31T20:47:20.183-05:002017: the best of a bad year<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This has been a stressful, overwhelming, and horrifying year for most of us as we stare daily into the void of the pre-apocalypse. Although keeping calm hasn't been an option, we have been carrying on. So, reflecting on everything I've accomplished in my writing life this year has been a welcome boost.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My second chapbook <i>Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</i> was accepted for publication at Porkbelly Press and <a href="https://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2017/12/on-letterpress-love-and-chapbook-covers.html" target="_blank">it is in production right now</a>. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had new <i>Alien</i> poems accepted in <i><a href="http://passagesnorth.com/" target="_blank">Passages North</a></i> and <i><a href="https://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2017/11/on-alien-and-account.html" target="_blank">The Account</a></i>, two journals that I admire. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2017/07/on-successful-experiments-and-my-sudden.html" target="_blank">My first visual poems were accepted for publication.</a> These five pieces will appear in an upcoming issue of <i>Duende</i>. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So despite all of the terribly traumatic global goings-on, 2017 has been a huge writing year for me. My writing goals for 2018 are not modest, but they are fairly simple: I'm hoping that my full-length manuscript will be accepted for publication at a great small press and that I will get a lot of new poems written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope 2018 greets all of us with open arms. Happy New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My new chapbook </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://porkbellypress.com/catalog/chapbooks/2017-2/lusby/" target="_blank">Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</a></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is getting a letterpress cover and I am just thrilled! One of my favorite parts of my job at the Rose O'Neill Literary House is getting to create designs for and print </span><a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/programs/the-literary-house-press/our-broadsides/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">letterpress broadsides</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of other writers' work. Because of my (very happy) time served as letterpress-bridesmaid, it really is so personally meaningful and exciting to be the recipient of the letterpress treatment for the very first time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It will always be such an honor to have another artist render a visual impression of my textual work. This black and white, letterpress cover is the pitch-perfect opening into <a href="https://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2017/02/blackbird-whitetail-redhand.html" target="_blank">my new chapbook of fairytale poems</a>. I think the only thing that would make it <i>more</i> perfect would be red endpapers: Black(ink) White(cover) Red(endpapers). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's available now for pre-order <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/175960719/chapbook-pre-order" target="_blank">here</a>. It should be ready for release in early 2018! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This week, my contributor's copy of Porkbelly Press's new limited-edition anthology <i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/559042072/bramble-thorn-limited-edition" target="_blank">Bramble & Thorn</a></i> arrived at my door. I have three fairytale-girl poems in this collection alongside twenty-one other fantastic poets, including Sally Rosen Kindred, Phoebe Reeves, Sonja Johanson, Rebecca Macijeski, Sarah Ann Winn, Donna Vorreyer, Jenn Givhan, and E. Kristin Anderson. This is such a beautiful little hand-bound book full of poems about fierce and dangerous fairytale women and girls in their dark forest landscape. The lush cover art is from photographer <a href="http://www.oliviarosephotography.com/" target="_blank">Olivia Rose Edvalson</a>. It's also available now for <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/559042072/bramble-thorn-limited-edition" target="_blank">pre-order</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've always been a poet with a fairytale aesthetic and I've gradually been finding and connecting with more and more fellow faerie-poets. Finding a home among these poets and fairytale-minded publications like <i><a href="https://fairytalereview.com/" target="_blank">Fairy Tale Review</a></i>, <i><a href="https://www.faeriemag.com/" target="_blank">Faerie Magazine</a></i>, and the anthologies and chapbooks at <a href="https://porkbellypress.com/" target="_blank">Porkbelly Press</a> feels like I'm right where I'm supposed to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have <a href="http://theaccountmagazine.com/article/lusby-two-poems-17" target="_blank">two new <i>Alien</i> poems</a> out now in the <a href="http://theaccountmagazine.com/current-issue-2" target="_blank">Fall 2017 Issue</a> of <i>The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought</i>! "What's the story, Mother?" and "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?" are the first and third poems in my series inspired by the Ridley Scott movie. An extra fun part about publishing in this journal is that the editors also ask for and publish an "account" of the poems, describing some aspect of the thought process behind the writing of them. I enjoyed digging back into the seed ideas for these poems and rediscovering those influences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am so grateful to editors Tyler Mills, Brianna Noll, and Christina Stoddard for supporting these little poems and for taking such care with them. I'll be spending time with this new issue of <i><a href="http://theaccountmagazine.com/current-issue-2" target="_blank">The Account</a></i> this weekend, reading all of the amazing poems, stories, and essays inside by contributors like Lee Ann Roripaugh, Paul Otremba, Lisa Marie Basile, and many others. If you have a few spare moments, check it out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Happy fall, poetry people! I am currently a couple months into a post-book writing dry spell. I'm trying to be patient and ride it out, but it's hard not to be frustrated at going so long without writing any new poems. Fortunately, there are a few things coming up this fall that I'm excited about and are keeping me going:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two of my <i>Alien </i>poems will be in the Fall 2017 issue of <i><a href="http://theaccountmagazine.com/" target="_blank">The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, & Thought</a></i>! My poems "What's the story, Mother?" and "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?" will be published in November, along with an account describing the ideas that went into the writing of these poems.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My three poems "Trespass," "Trade," and "Tremble" will be published in a new anthology of "fanged and fierce women and girls" from Porkbelly Press called <i><a href="https://porkbellypress.com/catalog/anthologies/bramblethorn/" target="_blank">bramble&thorn</a></i>. The anthology is currently in the final proofing stages and will be released this fall. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My second chapbook <i>Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</i> is now in the layout stages at Porkbelly Press. I'm so excited to see a cover design sometime soon. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/175960719/chapbook-pre-order?ref=shop_home_active_6" target="_blank">It's already available for pre-order too!</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While I look forward to each of these wonderful things, I'm keeping very busy sending out my full-length poetry manuscript <i>Catechesis</i> to book contests and small press open reading periods, as well as sifting through submissions for <i>Cherry Tree</i>'s fourth issue. <i><a href="http://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree</a></i> closes for submissions in just a few more hours, and then we'll be making final decisions on pieces to include in the issue, sending out responses, and diving right into issue layout and production. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm still hoping that a poem or two will come soon. But I'll settle for some cool fall weather, if that's what I can get. </span></div>
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-27546575514686676892017-07-04T20:52:00.003-04:002017-10-01T02:05:27.992-04:00On successful experiments and my sudden excitement<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am so thrilled to share that the first <b>five </b>of my <a href="http://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2017/05/on-visual-poetry-and-vivisecting.html" target="_blank">visual poetry</a> (or <a href="http://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2015/08/poem-as-collage-collage-as-poem.html" target="_blank">poem-collage</a>) pieces have been accepted for publication! "<i>(Hooded skullcap / plate 171)</i>," "<i>(false dragonhead / plate 170)</i>," "<i>(jack-in-the-pulpit / plate 2)</i>," "<i>(round-leaved sundew & venus flytrap / plate 74)</i>," and "<i>(swamp pink / plate 35)</i>" will be appearing in a future issue(s) of <i><a href="http://www.duendeliterary.org/" target="_blank">Duende</a></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More than being excited, it is such an incredible <i>relief </i>to have this new experimental work validated by other editors and publishers. Making these pieces was a great leap for me—I did not have a map for how they should be and how they would fit with with my purely textual work. I am also unfamiliar with the landscape of publishing such hybrid pieces. I was confident in my need to create them because the impulse came from the same place that pushes me to write a particular poem about a particular thing with those particular words. But after that, it was like sending out my first poems again. I had no internal sense of their worth outside of what they meant to me on a personal level. It was the first time in years that<span style="line-height: 115%;">—</span>after asking myself: "Is this any good?"—I had no tools to measure or determine the answer. I was taking a big artistic risk and I had to continue taking that risk to find out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because these visual poems are an integral part of my full-length manuscript, it is even more important to me that these pieces are granted some outside legitimacy. I have begun submitting the manuscript to presses and contests, and of course, having visual art pieces (let alone <i>full-color</i> visual art) in the book has made it an even more challenging process. I read the guidelines very carefully to make sure manuscripts containing visual art are even able to be considered, because of limited printing budgets, because of press and editor tastes and preferences. If I am still unsure, I will query the press before submitting and spending a not-insignificant submission fee on a prospect that will be turned away without being read or honestly considered because of these very real and understandable conditions. It narrows my pool of possible publishers considerably. That being said, Pleiades Press actually has a <a href="http://pleiadespress.org/about/visual-poetry-series-submission-guidelines/" target="_blank">Visual Poetry Series</a> that I am very excited about. I already submitted the manuscript there, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another challenge I've had to address—because these visual poems are mixed-media collage pieces—is determining whether my use of copyrighted materials qualifies as fair use, and therefore, whether I was legally <i>allowed </i>to publish them as my own creative work. This is such a fuzzy area that some publishers don't want to tangle with it at all, just to stay on the safe side (which, again, shrinks my pool of possible presses). But I did my research here, with the help of poets who work in erasure and other areas of found poetry. I found a few helpful resources <a href="https://graphicartistsguild.org/tools_resources/fair-use-or-infringement" target="_blank">here</a> from the Graphic Artists Guild and <a href="http://archive.cmsimpact.org/sites/default/files/documents/pages/fairusepoetrybooklet_singlepg_3.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> from the Center for Social Media at American University and <a href="http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/about-found-poetry/" target="_blank">here</a> from <i>Found Poetry Review</i> and <a href="https://janefriedman.com/permissions-and-fair-use/" target="_blank">here</a> from Jane Friedman's blog. What I learned from all of these, is that the determination of fair use of copyrighted materials (which means you don't have to seek permission from the copyright holder to use and publish it) comes down to four main points:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The <b>nature of the original work</b>, such as whether it is <b>more factual than fictional</b>."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<b>How much</b> of the original work was used."</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since I used small pieces from various factual source materials to create a new transformative work that is creative rather than commercial (I'm not selling it on T-shirts, etc.) and has no affect on the potential market for the original work, I've determined, without a doubt in my mind, that these visual poems qualify as fair use. It doesn't mean I'm <i>not </i>a little nervous, with this being entirely new territory for me. But I've done my homework here. And of course, wherever any of these are published, citations for the source materials will always be included. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of this is to say, that it's definitely been a challenge working in this new area that is part poetry, part visual art. So this new validation means even more to me because of it. Thank you so much to <i>Duende </i>for taking a chance on me and my experiments. Keep an eye out for their appearance in the near future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last month I finished my second series of six poem-collages. <a href="http://ontopofgoosehill.blogspot.com/2015/08/poem-as-collage-collage-as-poem.html" target="_blank">The first were paired with my <i>Silence of the Lambs</i> poems.</a> These are paired with my <i>Alien</i> poems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used the same source materials for these as I did for the previous series, which are primarily <i>The MacMillan Wild Flower Book</i> and <i>Gray's Anatomy</i>. Using the same sources helps to connect both series, make them part of a greater narrative that is explored in my full-length manuscript, <i>Catechesis</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wait a minute, there's movement. It seems to have life</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">organic life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We've got this far</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">we must go on. We have to go on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With these last poem-collages wrapped up, I finally decided to take a new leap: I've submitted them for publication to a number of literary magazines as <b>visual poetry</b>. I sent a batch of them to <i>Poetry Magazine</i>, <i>The Journal</i>, <i>A Bad Penny Review</i>, <i>DIAGRAM</i>, <i>Duende</i>, and <i>Maudlin House</i>. Fingers crossed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Visual poetry is such a vague and open category of creative work. It's so hard to determine what makes a visual work "poetry," except that a poet made it. It must intersect with a poem or a text in some way. Dissect a poem or text or experience. Vivisect it with the scalpel of a visual, mixed-media language. Cut open words and living, breathing images spill out. I've shared here slices of my six new <i>Alien </i>poem-collages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I'm on an <a href="http://www.lindsaylusby.com/events.html" target="_blank">interactive panel discussion</a> next week at the <a href="http://www.poetrybytheseaconference.org//schedule2017.htm" target="_blank">Poetry by the Sea Conference</a> in Madison, Connecticut. I will be talking with Jehanne Dubrow and Moira Egan about the intersection of poetry and perfume, which will end with a writing prompt and Q&A. If you're planning to attend the conference, please come to our panel on Friday, May 26 at 8:30 a.m.!</i></span><br />
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-24562001589629126692017-04-22T21:51:00.001-04:002017-04-24T15:28:32.292-04:00Good news for National Poetry Month!<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">First piece of good poetry news: l</span>ast weekend I finished the
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collection! It is a total of 27 poems and 12 poem-collages: fairytale-girl
poems, <i>Silence of the Lambs</i> poems & collages, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Alien<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>poems & collages. I'll give the manuscript a little breathing room,
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movement. It seems to have life</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">—organic life" has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2018 Issue of <i><a href="http://passagesnorth.com/" target="_blank">Passages North</a></i>! This is the first out of my six <i>Alien</i> poems to be taken by a literary magazine, so it is very encouraging for the rest of the series. Riding the high of this acceptance, I've just submitted the remaining five poems to another crop of journals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After nearly four years of working on this manuscript, it's a very strange feeling to be finished. I've been entirely project-focused in my writing for such a long time now, but I no longer have a project on my desk or even waiting in the wings. I'm itching to get back to writing new poems but I have no idea what direction they will move in. Writing the <i>Catechesis</i> poems has made me so much more confident in my voice and style, my relationship with language. There has been so much self-discovery and growth. But for the first time in a few years, I don't have a ready subject. I'm both nervous and extremely excited about what comes next. I'm going to try pulling back a bit and waiting for the next project to float to the surface.</span><br />
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-82103017348476656852017-02-23T21:00:00.002-05:002017-10-01T02:06:41.666-04:00Blackbird Whitetail Redhand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are fifteen poems in this chap, all of the poems about my three </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fairytale-girls</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from my nearly completed full-length manuscript: the Girl with no Hands, the Girl with Cloven Feet, and the Girl who Gave Birth to an Apple. Although they are a significant chunk of the larger manuscript (and there are certain publishing downsides to this), I decided after much internal deliberation that these poems deserved to have their own separate platform, showcasing them as a tightly-woven group. After talking with a close poet-friend, I found that I could make them distinct in both manuscripts by changing up how they were ordered. <b>That's when I realized I could have my chap and eat it too.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Blackbird Whitetail Redhand</i> is what <i>had </i>been the entire first section of my full-length manuscript. Letting them cozy up together in a chapbook allowed me to try out new ideas for ordering the larger manuscript, ideas that I had so far resisted. I broke my fairytale-girls up and wove them throughout. Now they appear as a sort of refrain in the manuscript, one that changes a little each time. The themes, images, language can talk more easily with the other sections, illuminating different ideas as they are bridged from one section to another. I love what this chapbook has allowed my larger manuscript to become. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am incredibly happy with the way all of these little poem decisions turned into this new chapbook. And I am especially excited that it is now with Porkbelly Press and editor Nicci Mechler. They create such beautiful handbound books (with a general design sense that I am in love with) and I truly cannot wait to see what this manuscript becomes in their capable hands. </span></div>
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Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-68599415882518429562016-11-16T00:53:00.001-05:002017-10-01T02:09:18.658-04:00On book launches and launching poems<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the past two months we've held two launch events for newly-released <i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780937692233/still-life-with-poem-contemporary-natures-mortes-in-verse.aspx" target="_blank">Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse</a></i>, which I co-edited with my friend Jehanne for the Literary House Press; we've waded through over a thousand submissions for the third issue of <i><a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree</a></i>; and although I haven't been able to get much new writing done, I did manage to send out a batch of poems to thirteen literary magazines. I'm pretty exhausted!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On October 18, we hosted the first book launch at home at the Rose O'Neill Literary House with readings from contributors James Arthur, James Allen Hall, Leslie Harrison, dawn lonsinger, and Dora Malech. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then on November 9, we held a DC launch at the Arts Club of Washington! We had readings from James Arthur, Sandra Beasley, Kim Bridgford, James Allen Hall, Dora Malech, and Jason Schneiderman. After the readings, Sandra (our host & contributor) called me to the stage and I answered a few questions about the editorial process. After a heartbreaking election night, this evening of poetry and fellowship was just what all of us needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We ended our most recent reading period for <i>Cherry Tree</i> on October 15, but we only finished reading, evaluating, and responding to all submissions on November 10. This third issue is going to be an especially strong and very full one! We are very excited for all of the amazing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction we will be publishing this time around. Our beloved Production Intern Caroline Harvey (<a href="https://www.washcoll.edu/live/news/9012-interns-report-still-life-with-poem" target="_blank">who also worked at my side as Literary House Press Intern last spring</a>, playing a crucial role in helping to bring <i>Still Life with Poem</i> into the world) has just set to work laying out the new issue, which will be heading to print in early January in preparation for its debut at an early <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview" target="_blank">AWP Conference in DC</a>, February 8-11. We have so much in the works for AWP this year, so stay tuned for updates!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With all of this and more happening, it's been especially difficult over the past couple of months to get any of my own writing and other poetry work done. I managed to complete my fourth <i>Alien</i> poem in early October, but I haven't yet begun the fifth and it is really beginning to weigh on me. Soon, I tell myself. In all of the busyness I've felt the need to create a to-do list for my poetry work to ease my worries here: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As you can see, I <i>have </i>begun to cross things off the list! I'm hoping to have a chapbook manuscript (part of my full-length manuscript-in-progress) ready to send out to presses by January. The poems are there and finished, but it needs a new title that I just haven't been able to grasp yet. I've gotten so far as generating a word cloud with the entire text to help loosen up some title ideas. The manuscript is three five-poem sections, each focused on a different fairy-tale girl. So I'm thinking the title could be a list of three simple, but evocative nouns? But that may just be because I love <a href="http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/horse-flower-bird/" target="_blank">Kate Bernheimer's <i>Horse, Flower, Bird</i></a>. And despite it clearly being the most commonly used word in the manuscript, I'd also like to <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/06/14/books-girls-girl-in-the-title/85830278/" target="_blank">avoid using the word "girl" in the title</a>, if at all possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This past weekend I submitted the first four <i>Alien</i> poems (a respectable little batch) to <b>thirteen</b> literary magazines. <i>Whew!</i> And I'm doing my best to aim high, since I write so slowly and rarely have many to send out:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A Public Space</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Bennington Review</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Collagist</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Crazyhorse</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Iowa Review</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Journal</i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>New Ohio Review</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I crossed my fingers, kissed these poems good-bye (for now), and have moved on to the next items on the list. We'll just have to see if I manage to write these final two <i>Alien</i> poems before the new year. I'm hopeful, but entirely exhausted. Which seems to be my whole outlook on life at this moment in time: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">emptied out, but still there's hope. </span><br />
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<br />Lindsay L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12631191626450189503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5842215675963502872.post-2192117988210527882016-09-23T21:49:00.002-04:002017-10-01T02:10:56.732-04:00Starry-eyed at the Sky Stage<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The September 22nd reading at Frederick's brand-new <a href="http://www.skystagefrederick.com/" target="_blank">Sky Stage</a> was an amazingly fun evening. A crew of present and past Chestertonians came out:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I read a fairly large batch of work: some fairy tale girl poems, some <i>Silence of the Lambs</i> poems, and even a few <i>Alien</i> poems. I was happy to discover some fellow horror movie fans in the intimate audience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And because my copy arrived on Tuesday, I showed off the brand-new Autumn 2016 issue of <i>Faerie Magazine</i> (based out of nearby Baltimore) and read my fairy tale girl poems published there. Really, if you don't subscribe to this gorgeous full-color magazine, you should.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rae gave a fantastic reading of her short stories. Her collection <i><a href="http://www.quarterlywest.utah.edu/iss_72/iss_01_title_02.html" target="_blank">The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals</a></i> is also well worth buying when your next payday rolls around. Each of our readings were punctuated by some perfectly moody, live bass guitar by musician Jake Warrenfeltz. And then the stage was opened up to the audience and we had a lively open mic session with friends, and new friends, to round out the evening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then after having a magnificent time, just before leaving Frederick for the drive home, we found this last little message from the universe: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm taking this as a sign. Thank you to Rae, <a href="http://frederickartscouncil.org/" target="_blank">Frederick Arts Council</a>, and the Sky Stage Reading Series for such hospitality and fellowship. I can't wait to see you all again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because it was also the first day of fall, Rae heroically read the McSweeney's classic<a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers" target="_blank"> "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers"</a> during the open mic. It was, unironically, the best thing ever: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And just like that, the summer has passed and September is here again. (Thank God</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bring on sweater weather!) Although they came very slowly, I did manage to get two more <i>Alien</i> poems written before Labor Day. And I'm once again wading through <a href="http://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/guidelines.php" target="_blank">submissions</a> for <i><a href="http://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/cherry-tree/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree</a></i>, but this time for our third issue! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This fall I will also be participating in two poetry reading events. Here are the details:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://thedoctortjeckleburgreview.com/introducing-first-sky-stage-reading-event-9-22-16-7pm-59-s-carroll-st-frederick-md/" target="_blank">Sky Stage Eco-Urban Reading Series</a></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Featuring Rae Bryant & Lindsay Lusby </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thursday, September 22 at 7:00 p.m.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.washcoll.edu/live/events/11879-still-life-with-poem-a-literary-house-press-book" target="_blank">Still Life with Poem: A Literary House Press Book Launch</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Featuring James Arthur, James Allen Hall, Leslie Harrison, dawn lonsinger, Lindsay Lusby, Dora Malech, and Jason Schneiderman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Tuesday, October 18 at 4:30 p.m. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Rose O'Neill Literary House, 407 Washington Ave., Chestertown, MD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And speaking of readings, during our first <a href="http://www.washcoll.edu/centers/lithouse/programs/the-cherry-tree-young-writers-conference/" target="_blank">Cherry Tree Young Writers' Conference</a> at the Lit House in July, I read some of my <i>Silence of the Lambs</i> poems as part of the Intern & Staff Reading. Here is a video of me reading two of those poems: </span></div>
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My last bit of news is that all five of my "Girl with Cloven Feet" poems have now found print homes! Back in June, I told you that "Girl with Cloven Feet," "Trade," and "Trigger" were accepted by <i><a href="http://www.faeriemag.com/collections/subscribe" target="_blank">Faerie Magazine</a></i> for their <a href="http://www.faeriemag.com/products/issue-36-autumn-2016-print" target="_blank">Autumn 2016 issue</a>. That issue should be hitting magazine stands very soon! And then this week, the last two poems "Trespass" and "Tremble" were snagged by <a href="https://porkbellypress.com/about/" target="_blank">Porkbelly Press</a> for their upcoming anthology <i><a href="https://porkbellypress.com/catalog/anthologies/bramblethorn/" target="_blank">bramble&thorn</a></i>. They will also be reprinting "Trade" here. I can't wait to see all of the pieces that end up in this anthology whose fierce-fairy-tale-women premise is all of the things that I love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy fall, everyone! May you have your fill of cooler days and cozier nights, and all of the creature comforts that go along with them.</span></div>
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