Tag: poetry

Shopping Your (My) Manuscript

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I’ll be at the Louisville Book Festival on October 19 to talk about what to do with your book-length manuscript once it’s where you want it to be and are ready to publish. What makes me particularly excited about this presentation is that after publishing my first book, Delicate Men (Alternative Book), with an indie press and my second book, Californium (Plume-Penguin) with one of the New York Five, I’m back at it and trying to find a home for my essay collection, Poser. In other words, I’ll be talking the talk in Louisville as I’m walking the walk.

If you’re in the area, stop by. There are so many great panels and presentations lined up and of course a lot of great authors will be there with their latest books.

A tease of The Journal (Winter 2017)

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To say there’s a bit of sex weaving its way through this latest issue of The Journal (issue 41.1) would be too crass, too shthe-journalallow, and only somewhat near the mark.

Poets Miguel Murphy (p. 18) and Adam Day (p. 66) are turning sex around (yes, all puns intended), turning it sideways (literally, you’ll see), making it new yet familiar, painful yet pleasurable, and you’ll be conflicted, unsure if you should be smirking or feeling guilty when it’s over. Then you’ll go back for more, wondering if you should but unable to stop yourself.

And don’t think you can slip away into some prose when someone starts reading over your shoulder. Kathryn Nuernberger’s nonfiction (26) will turn on you in pleasing ways as well, bring even more meaning to what the French call, “the little death.”

There’s much, much more to be loved in this issue but this is, after all, just a tease.