New poems in Papirmasse!

I've never met Kirsten McCrea, but I'm pretty much convinced she is one of the most amazing humans ever. Kirsten is a visual artist living in Montreal and she's the art-smarts behind several supercool projects.

First, there's The Hot Topic Project:

... in which Kirsten painted a portrait of every person named in the Le Tigre song "Hot Topic." Be still my heart. Read more about the project here!

And then, there's Papirmasse, a mail-art subscription through which, for $5 per month, you receive work by a different artist/writer pair each month for a year.

I'm happy to be November's poet--two poems from Slope Move plus one poem from a new series, "The Frames", will be featured in the issue. Check out my interview on the Papirmasse blog!

Candy

Because life IS crazy! And because I LOVE Iggy, in every incarnation. Also, this is totally part of the soundtrack for Slope Move. All that separation anxiety! Even the video is all separate spheres-esque.

I sort of imagine that when Kate Pierson joins in, even though she's singing the same chorus, she's actually kinda eye-rolly about all of Iggy's shirtless wallowing. Eff off guy, you blew it.

The News in Neon

**My first book of poems, Slope Move, is forthcoming from Coconut Books in 2012!**

It's a book-length poem about, well, leaving.

More specifically, it's about the act of separation: from an "other", from the self, & from linearity (i.e. the splits that occur within narratives--through shifts in time, perspective, & memory.)

Also poems about bird-hating, co-dependency, Liz Phair songs, & Chicago.