What Presses Most: I teach for Frequency

I'm teaching a six-week workshop called What Presses Most for the Frequency workshop series in Providence. Here's what you need to know before you register:

This is a class for students who are ready to be braver in their writing practice and presentation. Writers will challenge themselves on two fronts: by writing in ways or under circumstances that are strange but important to them, and by exploring ways to arrange meetings between their work and the world. Plan for in-class writing, mini field trips, and the design and making of three chapbooks in six weeks. Writers in any genre are welcome; we will be reading and writing mainly short-form pieces.

Dates: Tuesdays, 6:30-9pm from July 9-August 13

Location: Ada Books, 717 Westminster St. Providence

Tuition: $240 (does not include photocopying costs, which are estimated to be around $40. Frequency has a few scholarships available to cover the copying costs for those in need -- let them know when you register that you'd like to be considered.)

A little history for your art

This blog is cool -- representations / documentation of people of color in European art -- most of what I've seen so far is 1400-1800-ish. In addition to art that's great to look at, presented with historical context, this blog can be used to refute a few different sub-varieties of racist sputtering!

USO: I'll Be Seeing You

I reviewed USO: I'll Be Seeing You by Kim Rosenfeld over at the Small Press Book Review!

Kim's book is deeply attentive and worth the same kind of attention from you.

iArtistas

Have you been reading/looking at iArtistas? Well, you could start!

Specifically, for the purposes of this discussion, you could start by reading or listening to my poem "The Field Museum."

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James and I went to Taiwan! Things that are great about Taiwan: James's extended family, potted plants on the sidewalk and on people's balconies, mountain trails, the MRT (subway) in Taipei, foods on sticks, parks with public exercise equipment, the high speed rail from Taipei to Kaohsiung, designated safe waiting areas for women in the subway at night, foods not on sticks, CLEAN public bathrooms, scooters outnumbering cars (at least in the cities we visited), low levels of dudes being jerks to other dudes for not being dudely "enough" (at least in public), high levels of baby cheek volume (insufficient data on how this compares to baby cheeks of other nations -- anyone want to fund an exhaustive study? I admit that I know an American baby that could boost our national average). Loved Taiwan, hope to go back one day.

Review: My Tranquil War by Anis Shivani

I reviewed Anis Shivani's collection of poems, My Tranquil War, for the PANK blog. Go and look!

Reading tonight!

I'm reading with colleagues Susan Kushner Resnick, Michael Stewart, and Robert Ward, on the Brown University campus (Wilson 102, on the main green -- if you walk in from Brown St./Waterman St, it's on the left). The reading's at 6:30 pm. Please come!

Review: Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević

I reviewed Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević for the Small Press Book Review.

You should check out the other reviews there as well, and the other books reviewed there.

I didn't say this in the review so I'll say it here: I bought this book at AWP and then sat down on one of those half-hassock, half-planter things in the lobby and read it all the way through. I thought about what I would probably have to destroy and was still reluctant to destroy. Thanks, Ana, for writing this book.