tumblredirects: WILLA in the Huff Po! various versery, reviews, love
lots of exciting recognition for WILLA: women in letters & literary arts lately! and i am honored to have been put on the "who makes WILLA happen" page of the revamped WILLAweb.org. i was even (holy poops i still cunt believe it!) kindly included in the Huffington Post article, "There WILLA be at AWP" by Ru Freeman >> http://huff.to/WILLAhuff
in the days gearing up to AWP i interviewed 3 women who were participating in WILLA's literature/burlesque/roller derby reading event in a series of "blogterview" interviews. this is the first foray into an ongoing series i hope to be doing in my own mlle.tumblr (fast becoming my own personal poetical diversionary faux scrapbook lit. mag of fun) in addition to my continued bloggings/"new media admin" work for willaweb.tumblr. hoozah faux profess' poetess doings!
blogterview1 with Susan Steinberg
"My work is more influenced by the visual arts than it is by other writings. Often, I’m intrigued by some aspect of the visual pieces themselves (a way, for example, of telling a story or a way of handling repetition), but more often it’s the risks that the artists have taken. . ."
blogterview2 with Cheryl Strayed
"Here’s what I have to say about confessionalism: what the hell is wrong with it? I confess! I do. And the people who like my work are responding in part to that-to the fact that I dare to tell them the truth, that I am willing to be intimate with the reader on the page. Of course, this isn’t to say telling the truth is enough. . ."
blogterview3 with Camille Dungy
"Here’s the thing about community: Most of us need it to some degree or another. Some might say that community is needed for self-affirmation. But it’s more complicated than that. In one of her most wonderful and most famous poems Lucille Clifton asks us to “celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life.” She goes on to say, 'i had no model.' She had to create her own image of who she would become as a woman, mother, wife, and poet. . ."
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poetesss.tumblr
4/3 >> Toward you I thistle and I climb (after the Olena poem-line, yes) it's my Pyramus/Thisbe sapphoria ode-piece
4/11 poem >> on Nikola Tesla (& Ben Franklin's "syphilitic key!")
>> some nice press on my burlesque poetess-ing at Le Cabaret Grimm last week
4/16 >> on nutella (Charlie & the Choc. Factory + The Shining inspired in voice, haha)
and a new one en route probably to-night!
i claimed my facebook "fan" page url, aussi, mes amis: http://facebook.com/poetesss
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mlle.tumblr ~ the mademoiselle miscellany is becoming a literary miscellany mystery-xperience! more soon!
4/2 laurie/libramoon's >> Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine #17 ~ HOly ChAoS
4/8 >> Spring by dear Edna St. Vincent Millay
4/12
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woops, edit/addition, 4/12 >> post-show silly poetical recap
xo to you, LJ friends