May 2012
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Dear Arizona, you should go to this event. →
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April 2012
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New poem in Rufous City Review, Issue 6 →
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Literary Firsts
Tomorrow night. 7pm. Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge. I hope you’ll join us for an evening of fiction, poetry, essays, and sex (well, sexy words, at least).
“You write so that the life you have around you, and outside, far from the sheet...”
– Michel Foucault, from an interview with Claude Bonnefoy, 1969 (via proustitute)
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Carl Phillips
I was able to attend a reading by Carl Phillips last night at Emerson College. He was, unsurprisingly, fantastic. He’s one of my favorite living poets and I really appreciated the opportunity to hear his thoughts on writing.
In my own writing, I often struggle with the things he approaches so directly and forcefully in his poems. Maybe that’s why I like him so much.
Here’s a...
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“I who have seen you amid the primal things
Was angry when they spoke your name...”
– Ezra Pound, from “Francesca” (via ahuntersheart)
March 2012
11 posts
PACHYDERMINI: Interview with Carissa Halston →
carissahalston:
pachydermini:
1. “The Dual” is a homonym for “duel.” Was that intended? What connotations do you hope people will read into your title?
The homonym was intentional, yes. It’s both representative of Claire’s struggle with her anti-identity (that is, her denial over being a number-cruncher and her…
Brian Warfield, of Turtleneck Press, was kind enough to ask me questions...
: New story, Sacramento 2006, at Precipitate →
carissahalston:
I’ve got a new short story, “Sacramento, 2006,” in the latest issue of Precipitate.
I’m really happy to have a piece with Precipitate because of their focus on art that concerns environment/place. “Sacramento, 2006” deals with the emotional/mental environment we relegate ourselves to…
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Review: Janaka Stucky's The World Will Deny It For... →
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The Dinner Platter by Janet Yoder →
We just posted a great essay at apt!
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New poem in the next issue of The Destroyer →
I’m going to have a text-video-poem-command line interface project in their next issue. Exciting times.
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Collection of short, short stories at apt →
Check out “Remnants” by Valerie Arvidson. It’s a collection of four very short stories based on old photos.
February 2012
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Ooooooh →
carissahalston:
thenewephemera:
Hey hey hey — maybe you will click this button and pre-order the upcoming March/April edition of The Believer. A little bird tells me that this issue contains a piece of mine called, “The Inheritance.” Yay. Also, lots of other good stuff.
Dolan, you can’t see me from there, but I’m high-fiving you in really slow motion. You’ll get it in the next four months or...
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“The relationship between patience and writing has preoccupied me from the moment...”
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Stacey May Fowles, “Against the Clock.” (via millionsmillions)
Reblogged for Carissa, mostly.
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New fiction by Nathaniel Tower just posted at apt! →
”Of all the days to die. This was simply the worst timing.” — Nathaniel Tower, “A Conversation between a Dead Man, Himself, and His Alarm Clock”
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Free books from Aforementioned Productions →
carissahalston:
We really love readings, but we understand that a lot of our readers are far away. So, to celebrate the release of our second print issue, we’re having a giveaway called The Aforementioned Bookstravaganza.
To participate, all you need to do is record yourself reading your a story from apt. For those of you who don’t know, we’ve been around since 2005, so there are a lot of...
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Julie Baber reads "Not Quite Stars" →
Luxuriate in the sound of Julie’s voice as she reads her poem, “Not Quite Stars,” which appears in the second print issue of apt.
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