Axl and Bowie and Everyone We Know
Flying Object featured my poem as the 12th installment of IT’S MY DECISION, complete with amazing background images. Thanks to Lauren Ireland for choosing it!!
Belladonna* Benefit & Auction
Support innovative & experimental feminist writing at Belladonna*’s Annual Benefit Perfomance & Auction, this Tuesday the 13th!
Halloween Poet Parade!
Halloween Poet Parade, hosted by Bloof Books!
A parade of poets through the West Village, on the eve of All Hallows’ Eve.
Costumed performances by…
Hanna Andrews
Shanna Compton
Marisa Crawford
Nada Gordon
Becca Klaver
Jennifer L. Knox
Mark Lamoureux
Sharon Mesmer
K. Silem Mohammad
Danielle Pafunda
Jennifer Tamayo
Map with route and reading points will be available at a later date, but we will likely be hitting Washington Square Park, Jefferson Market & Library, and other public spots in the West Village. (March with us, or meet us along the way.)
Start/End stop:
THE FOUR-FACED LIAR
http://www.thefour-facedli
165 West 4th Street,
(Between 6th and 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
Phone: (212) 206 8959
OPEN MIKE portion after parade finale.
(Sign up at the event. Costumes encouraged!)
Experience Has Made Me Rich & Now They’re After Me
I have a new poem in the latest issue of Black Clock!
& a section of a long poem in the new Sink Review!
xoxo,
Marisa
Back to School
Happy end of summer! Is your New Kids on the Block backpack stocked with a fresh pack of #2 pencils and a shiny new Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper? Well, good!
Here are some important things to make your back-to-school season even more magical:
1. Poet/high school teacher/California dreamboat Matt L. Rohrer’s fantastic new chapbook Probability of Dependent Events is available for free download over at Beard of Bees. It also mentions binder clips, pencils & other various back-to-school ephemera.
2. Kate Durbin wants your dirty underwear. You should probably give them to her.
3. Belladonna*’s first reading of the season is this Tuesday 9/13: Our Material Lives: Feminism and Poetry at Various Ages. Starts at 7:30 at Dixon Place in NYC.
4. Courtney E Martin’s piece in the new issue of Guernica looks at Beyonce, Nas & the Politics of Utopia. Yes please.
5. Lizzy Acker reads from Monster Party on KQED’s The Writer’s Block. Let her sweet stories of alien sex & Sister, Sister soothe you to sleep.
Sweater weather, here we come.
xo,
Marisa
Bone Bouquet Issue 2.2!
I’m super psyched to have a new poem included in the newest issue of Bone Bouquet! The new issue also includes fantabulous work by poets Natalie Lyalin, Gina Myers, Becca Klaver, Daniela Olszewska, Eileen Myles & others. Edited by Krystal Languell, this new journal publishes writing by female poets – from their mission: “Rather than segregating the poetry of ‘women’s issues’ from ‘regular’ creative work, our goal is to provide an additional arena in which female poets can make their work more visible to readers, building their reputations as artists.” Pretty fantastic. And did I mention that the new issue is beautiful??
Summer Dreams
There’s nothing better than Delirious Hem’s *SEAM RIPPER: Women on Textual and Sartorial Style,* curated by fiercely fabulous poetry fashionistas (& former high school slip dress sluts) Kate Durbin & Becca Klaver. Check out my included piece, plus a slew of other shimmering poetic jewels.
Also, if you’ll be in Chicago tomorrow, I hope you’re going to the 2nd annual South Loop Film Festival – they’ll be screening a bunch of rad short films including Deidre, a 5-minute film directed by Cyra K. Polizzi that’s based on The Haunted House! Thanks, Cyra!
Next Week in Boston
At the Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts next week, I’ll be reading on Thursday April 7th at 1:30 PM in the Boston Public Library, Room 06. And the following day, Friday April 8th, I’m speaking on a panel about first books with amazing authors Mira Bartok (The Memory Palace) and Jedediah Berry (The Manual of Detection). The panel is also at the Boston Public Library, in the Boston Room at 1:30.
New Poems in La Fovea
Poet Deborah Wood kindly recommended my poems for the poetry nerve network La Fovea. Thanks, Deborah!
You can read mine here.