I'm so excited to report that my second full-length collection of poems (W)HOL(L)Y ISLAND (yes, it's had many titles, bear with me) is to be published by Gold Wake Press in 2014!
Gold Wake produces beautiful books and I'm so happy to be in such fine company, namely the lovely Hannah Stephenson's! Check out their books here: http://goldwakepress.com/
I'm thrilled for so many reasons but maybe chief among them is the notion that I might get to move on to a new project.
In honor of the book, I give you "A Sailor's Life." If you love me, you'll listen:
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The Next Big Thing (Yeah Right):
And thanks, Sophia Kartsonis and the lovely Catherine Pierce as well!
What is the working title of the book?
How We Came Ashore
Where did the idea come from for the book?
Monhegan Island, which is a tiny rock in the sea, ten miles off the mid-coast of Maine, Shakespeare's The Tempest (of course), Rossellini's film Stromboli, Powell and Pressburger's film Black Narcissus.
What genre does your book fall under?
Verse
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Tilda Swinton as Ferdinand, Deborah Kerr as me, Steve Coogan as Ariel, Bob Dylan as Prospero, Joan Crawford as Caliban.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
What terrible wind; what trees!
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
About a year.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
My husband, who first proposed we go to the island, then Shakespeare, who's more than just my Facebook friend.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
It will make you fall in love with Maine all over again! There are couplets! There are lobster traps!
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
The chapbook will be published by the lovely Kristy Bowen and Dancing Girl Press in 2013.
I tag: Hannah Stephenson, Kristi Maxwell, Matt McBride, Charlene Fix, Natalie Shapero
And thanks, Sophia Kartsonis and the lovely Catherine Pierce as well!
What is the working title of the book?
How We Came Ashore
Where did the idea come from for the book?
Monhegan Island, which is a tiny rock in the sea, ten miles off the mid-coast of Maine, Shakespeare's The Tempest (of course), Rossellini's film Stromboli, Powell and Pressburger's film Black Narcissus.
What genre does your book fall under?
Verse
What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
Tilda Swinton as Ferdinand, Deborah Kerr as me, Steve Coogan as Ariel, Bob Dylan as Prospero, Joan Crawford as Caliban.
What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
What terrible wind; what trees!
How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
About a year.
Who or what inspired you to write this book?
My husband, who first proposed we go to the island, then Shakespeare, who's more than just my Facebook friend.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
It will make you fall in love with Maine all over again! There are couplets! There are lobster traps!
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?
The chapbook will be published by the lovely Kristy Bowen and Dancing Girl Press in 2013.
I tag: Hannah Stephenson, Kristi Maxwell, Matt McBride, Charlene Fix, Natalie Shapero
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Bad and Weird Choices
So it's the first full day of winter vacation. I still have tons to do for CCAD (that will come later this afternoon) but in the meantime, I wanted to make a record of all the ridiculous and unpublishable projects I have rotating their rotisserie of uselessness in my head so that when none of them see the light of day I can laugh at myself even harder later, then cry.
1. A poem about Henry James in Venice (project about dead white guy #1).
2. A long poem/verse play about Benjamin Britten and the writing of A Ceremony of Carols during his transatlantic sea voyage on a Swedish cargo ship called the Axel Johnson (project about dead white guy #2).
3. Essays about Cincinnati and theft especially about Cincinnati's own George Remus (project about dead white guy #3)
4. Play in which two frequent museum and gallery-goers (i.e. Josh and Lesley) discuss famous works of abstract, conceptual and performance art (plotless and ineffectual project that will include some dead white guys #4).
And then there's that collection of poems I need to make better so maybe someone will like it.
1. A poem about Henry James in Venice (project about dead white guy #1).
2. A long poem/verse play about Benjamin Britten and the writing of A Ceremony of Carols during his transatlantic sea voyage on a Swedish cargo ship called the Axel Johnson (project about dead white guy #2).
3. Essays about Cincinnati and theft especially about Cincinnati's own George Remus (project about dead white guy #3)
4. Play in which two frequent museum and gallery-goers (i.e. Josh and Lesley) discuss famous works of abstract, conceptual and performance art (plotless and ineffectual project that will include some dead white guys #4).
And then there's that collection of poems I need to make better so maybe someone will like it.
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