January 5, 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
My collection of poems Falling Forward will be released at the end of February by sunnyoutside press. I will be uploading more information as it comes up.
I just read Alan Catlin's new chap from sunnyoutside and really enjoyed it! I am actually planning on going up to Cafe Lena's to see him read in April along with Ed Sanders and Lyn Lifshin... Other than that I am still plugging away on some new pieces... I have many upcoming readings that you can view on my reading page. May everyone have a terrific and enlightening 2009!
November 2008
My poem "Wind Chime" appeared in the September issue of Chronogram . My poem "Sober on a Snowy Day" was published in the recent all female issue of wordsdance. sunnyoutside will be releasing my new collection Falling Forward in February! I am planning many readings and have been invited by Doug Holder to be interviewed on his TV show Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer. (See the reading section for more details.) Currently, I am working on a new collection of poems centered around a pool hall that I co-owned with my husband.
Recently I was asked by Amanda Oaks to preview a new chapbook that she is putting out by Heather Bell. I absolutely love Heather's writing and highly recommend the read! I love Amanda's work in the small press.
June 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
My collection of poems Falling Forward will be released at the end of February by sunnyoutside press. I will be uploading more information as it comes up.
I just read Alan Catlin's new chap from sunnyoutside and really enjoyed it! I am actually planning on going up to Cafe Lena's to see him read in April along with Ed Sanders and Lyn Lifshin... Other than that I am still plugging away on some new pieces... I have many upcoming readings that you can view on my reading page. May everyone have a terrific and enlightening 2009!
November 2008
My poem "Wind Chime" appeared in the September issue of Chronogram . My poem "Sober on a Snowy Day" was published in the recent all female issue of wordsdance. sunnyoutside will be releasing my new collection Falling Forward in February! I am planning many readings and have been invited by Doug Holder to be interviewed on his TV show Poet to Poet/Writer to Writer. (See the reading section for more details.) Currently, I am working on a new collection of poems centered around a pool hall that I co-owned with my husband.
Recently I was asked by Amanda Oaks to preview a new chapbook that she is putting out by Heather Bell. I absolutely love Heather's writing and highly recommend the read! I love Amanda's work in the small press.
June 2008
Photo taken by Michael Grover, The
Mark Twain House, June 2008 Beat
Fest.
I read with Nathan Graziano at the Mark Twain House in Hartford Conn. for the last day of The Beat Festival on June 8th. I am working on the last of edits for a new collection. I also started working on some new pieces on pool halls. Basically, life is good and busy and I wish there were 8 more hours in a day. Is that so much to ask?
I read with Nathan Graziano at the Mark Twain House in Hartford Conn. for the last day of The Beat Festival on June 8th. I am working on the last of edits for a new collection. I also started working on some new pieces on pool halls. Basically, life is good and busy and I wish there were 8 more hours in a day. Is that so much to ask?
Photo taken by Mark Lanier in Ellenville, New York, Fall 2007, Me and Kaya
June 17, 2008
Updates:
There is never enough time.
My daughter eats all of my books.
Her eyes may be hazel or maybe brown.
I hope she isn't anything like I was as a teenager.
I respect mothers, far more than ever before!!!
Updates:
There is never enough time.
My daughter eats all of my books.
Her eyes may be hazel or maybe brown.
I hope she isn't anything like I was as a teenager.
I respect mothers, far more than ever before!!!
Self-portrait
March 9, 2008
Wow, it has
really been a year
since I last updated this page--I
can not believe it! Anyway, New- sunnyoutside just printed my poem
"Logic" on a postcard......ummmmm, working on some new pieces for a new
collection. Motherhood, reading, working, living......
Okay... Yes, it has been a long
time
since I updated this page. I
have some readings coming up including:
April 2nd at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock, NY at 7:30pm hosted by Phillip Levine, the poetry editor of Chronogram magazine.
April 7th at the Alternate bookstore in Kingston at 5pm with Nathan Graziano.
June 8th at Morning Brew Coffee House in High Falls, NY at 7pm.
June 16th at the Mudd Puddle in New Paltz, NY at 7:30pm with Nathan Graziano.
July 17th at the Acoustic Coffee in Portlane, Maine at 7pm with Nathan Graziano.
April 2nd at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock, NY at 7:30pm hosted by Phillip Levine, the poetry editor of Chronogram magazine.
April 7th at the Alternate bookstore in Kingston at 5pm with Nathan Graziano.
June 8th at Morning Brew Coffee House in High Falls, NY at 7pm.
June 16th at the Mudd Puddle in New Paltz, NY at 7:30pm with Nathan Graziano.
July 17th at the Acoustic Coffee in Portlane, Maine at 7pm with Nathan Graziano.
In
addition, I read from "Dream Big,
Work Harder" on The Woodstock Roundtable with Doug Grunther
on WDST on 2/4/2007.
Which was great and I have to thank my friend and fellow poet, WIll
Nixon, for the opportunity!
My reading from The Small Press Fair in December can be
viewed on line:
"Dream Big, Work Harder " Reading
Melody Sherosky, the editor of The Blind Man's Rainbow,
reviewed my
chapbook in Winter 2007, Volume XII, Issue 1 of BMR. See the
"Dream Big, Work Harder" on this site for clips from the review.
In addition, I am working on various projects with some great poets and am pretty excited....the March snow is fading and life is good....Feel free to drop me a line, if you feel inspired. -Rebecca
In addition, I am working on various projects with some great poets and am pretty excited....the March snow is fading and life is good....Feel free to drop me a line, if you feel inspired. -Rebecca
January
3, 2007
Happy New Year! Just a few updates... one of my pieces from a new collection I am working on was published online at Zygote in my Coffee . Doug Holder reviewed Dream Big, Work Harder; you can check out the review at Author's Den. I am reading at the Morning Brew on January 12th, see below information. Also Nate Graziano and I started plans for reading dates this summer, including one in Maine in July; will give more details soon. Hope everyone is having a good start to 2007.
December 11, 2006
I will be reading at Morning Brew Coffee House in High Falls on January 12th at 7pm with local poet Glenn Werner. Other readings to be announced as they come closer, including a reading at Alternative Books, 35 North Front Street in Kingston, on April 7th. They are also holding copies of Dream Big, Work Harder. ForeWord editor at large Eugene Schwartz, who I met at the Small Press Book Fair, reviewed my book in the December 6th newsletter.
December 4, 2006
sunnyoutside just released my new chapbook Dream Big, Work Harder... and I just read this past weekend at the small press fair in Manhattan. Have been setting up some other reading to be announced and will also be reading with Nathan Graziano in the New Hampshire area in the spring.
Happy New Year! Just a few updates... one of my pieces from a new collection I am working on was published online at Zygote in my Coffee . Doug Holder reviewed Dream Big, Work Harder; you can check out the review at Author's Den. I am reading at the Morning Brew on January 12th, see below information. Also Nate Graziano and I started plans for reading dates this summer, including one in Maine in July; will give more details soon. Hope everyone is having a good start to 2007.
December 11, 2006
I will be reading at Morning Brew Coffee House in High Falls on January 12th at 7pm with local poet Glenn Werner. Other readings to be announced as they come closer, including a reading at Alternative Books, 35 North Front Street in Kingston, on April 7th. They are also holding copies of Dream Big, Work Harder. ForeWord editor at large Eugene Schwartz, who I met at the Small Press Book Fair, reviewed my book in the December 6th newsletter.
December 4, 2006
sunnyoutside just released my new chapbook Dream Big, Work Harder... and I just read this past weekend at the small press fair in Manhattan. Have been setting up some other reading to be announced and will also be reading with Nathan Graziano in the New Hampshire area in the spring.
Photo taken
by Mark Lanier at the
Small Press Fair, NYC, December 2006
November
14, 2006
On Saturday December 2nd, I will be reading at the small press fair in New York City for the release of my book Dream Big, Work Harder via sunnyoutside press. I will give more details as the date approaches... Mannequin Envy published two of my poems online, you can check them out at www.mannequinenvy.com
September 4, 2006
Ohhhh, the close of the summer... I did however win the first poker game that I have ever played last night. Many updates: I just started working on a book with sunnyoutside press. I absoloutely love the work they are putting out, especially William Taylor Jr's book "So Much Is Burning" and Nate's book. One of my poems appeared in the August posting of Zygote in my Coffee and a few pieces were accepted for an upcoming issue of Controlled Burn. I just finished reading "give a poor man god and watch him starve" by john sweet and I really enjoyed it. You can order it through lulu.com.
July 21, 2006
My Favorite Bullet just came out with a new on-line issue that includes one of my pieces. My Favorite Bullet
Going to Brooklyn finally to see some friends--one of which I will be working on a project with and will give more details soon. Just read Men of Letters by Nathan Graziano and Daniel Crocker--I recommend it! The pieces are a moving mosaic of honest humor. It was the last book in a trilogy put out by Green Bean Press.
July 15, 2006
Wordriot just posted three of my poems in the July issue. Including "Gone" which tortured me for five years, I could never get it just right. I was bent on fine tuning the multiple layers, so it read three ways. I would like to blame the consumption of at least two gallons of vodka on "Gone." Just read Dead Stars Have No Graves by Joseph Kerschbaum and highly recommend checking it out! You can order his chapbook at pathwise press .
July 8, 2006
Just read some good pieces in the June issue of remark including two pieces by Michael Estabrook that were beautiful! I am honored to be beside great poets ... and excited that one of my pieces will also appear in the August issue. Currently, I have another piece included in the July on-line issue of spentmeat. In addition, I started a myspace page that I am posting new and different work on. Hoping to start some new projects soon...
May 23, 2006
Codhill Press www.codhill.com is accepting manuscripts for their chapbook contest, judged anonymously by Pauline Uchmanowicz. Pauline's the author of Sand & Traffic, a collection of poems worth checking out!
On Saturday December 2nd, I will be reading at the small press fair in New York City for the release of my book Dream Big, Work Harder via sunnyoutside press. I will give more details as the date approaches... Mannequin Envy published two of my poems online, you can check them out at www.mannequinenvy.com
September 4, 2006
Ohhhh, the close of the summer... I did however win the first poker game that I have ever played last night. Many updates: I just started working on a book with sunnyoutside press. I absoloutely love the work they are putting out, especially William Taylor Jr's book "So Much Is Burning" and Nate's book. One of my poems appeared in the August posting of Zygote in my Coffee and a few pieces were accepted for an upcoming issue of Controlled Burn. I just finished reading "give a poor man god and watch him starve" by john sweet and I really enjoyed it. You can order it through lulu.com.
July 21, 2006
My Favorite Bullet just came out with a new on-line issue that includes one of my pieces. My Favorite Bullet
Going to Brooklyn finally to see some friends--one of which I will be working on a project with and will give more details soon. Just read Men of Letters by Nathan Graziano and Daniel Crocker--I recommend it! The pieces are a moving mosaic of honest humor. It was the last book in a trilogy put out by Green Bean Press.
July 15, 2006
Wordriot just posted three of my poems in the July issue. Including "Gone" which tortured me for five years, I could never get it just right. I was bent on fine tuning the multiple layers, so it read three ways. I would like to blame the consumption of at least two gallons of vodka on "Gone." Just read Dead Stars Have No Graves by Joseph Kerschbaum and highly recommend checking it out! You can order his chapbook at pathwise press .
July 8, 2006
Just read some good pieces in the June issue of remark including two pieces by Michael Estabrook that were beautiful! I am honored to be beside great poets ... and excited that one of my pieces will also appear in the August issue. Currently, I have another piece included in the July on-line issue of spentmeat. In addition, I started a myspace page that I am posting new and different work on. Hoping to start some new projects soon...
May 23, 2006
Codhill Press www.codhill.com is accepting manuscripts for their chapbook contest, judged anonymously by Pauline Uchmanowicz. Pauline's the author of Sand & Traffic, a collection of poems worth checking out!
Would
you be so terrifying
uncoffined, dried earth caked on your calves,
disintegrating in a field among weeds
like an animal whose death
makes a place large and strange?
uncoffined, dried earth caked on your calves,
disintegrating in a field among weeds
like an animal whose death
makes a place large and strange?
from Knee Deep in Mud My Mother
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