Yearly Archives: 2008

Wide Awake

My essay “Wide Awake” is out now in the new issue of Hip Mama. I’ve loved this zine for years, and this issue features some wonderful pieces. Subscribe here!

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About Face event

I’ll be reading from my essay “Concealer” at a book party and panel discussion for About Face this Thursday, October 16th, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Bobbi Brown Studio, 8 Lackawanna Plaza, in Montclair, New Jersey. Also appearing are the book’s editors, Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt, and contributors Pamela Redmond Satran and Benilde Little.

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New Work

My essay “Wide Awake” is forthcoming in issue 41 of Hip Mama magazine. Subscribe here.


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Q & A with Sabrina Chapadjiev

My interview with Sabrina Chapadjiev, editor of Live Through This, is up now on Feminist Review. Check it out here.

Photo by Dave Sanders.

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Q & A with make/shift


My interview with the amazing and talented editors of make/shift magazine is up now on Feminist Review. Check it out here, and subscribe to make/shift.

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Few Things

Kay Ryan is named poet laureate. “An almost empty suitcase, that’s what I want my poems to be, few things.” Here is “The Job.”

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Counting to 4

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Girl with Pen on About Face

A new review of About Face is on the Girl with Pen blog. Check it out here. There is also a plug about the book in the August 2008 issue of Shape magazine.

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The Ride

Joan Wasser is wonderful and amazing. Here she is on Soundcheck and in a live performance. And here is “The Ride”:

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The Job

The Job

The poem has followed me for eight years at least, in the yellow folder filled with papers and pictures for collage. We went through the folder together. He made a card for the two men he loves. Sixteen heart stickers, glitter pink. I took a picture on the sill. All of it, delicate.

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