tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305747752024-03-21T16:41:17.108-07:00~*~OVARIES & SEQUINS~*~BellumLettersmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.comBlogger553125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-21903863340486841092017-09-28T17:37:00.002-07:002017-09-28T17:37:41.448-07:00Poets "Open Mic" for Peace | 100 TPC Santa Barbara 2017 Event
link to event page on facebook
mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-58537620598238373612016-12-31T19:26:00.000-08:002017-09-28T15:21:42.759-07:00a pause at the end of the yearIt's true years are fictions of time, but only kind of. Because we are on a rock orbiting a star and that takes a certain amount of time. Markers are where we confront our role as namers. We don't make time; we notice light and dark. Our bodies are made of time: earth. The sun goes "up" and "down." We sleep and dream. Flowers say hello. The birds migrate. We change.
The ecosystem of a life mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-90869069391779779902016-05-17T22:04:00.000-07:002016-05-17T22:04:38.120-07:00New Review of After-Cave in Kenyon Review Online & 3 chapters from Sin in Wilderness in YEWMany thanks to M.P. Jones IV for this beautiful new review of After-Cave in the Kenyon Review Online.
& thanks to YEW journal for publishing 3 chapters from Sin in Wilderness. Here is one of the chapters, "The Way."
also, here are some picture of some borage that I planted -- first in February, and then in April
mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-48363597404223053712016-05-01T18:44:00.001-07:002016-05-01T19:15:04.059-07:00MAYDAYThe sky shifted its weight towards the horizon
and the masts of sailboats slipped under
the slouch.
I went to honey bloom
& I fed the wings to an imaginary star.
Could you meet me there? on the star?
In this after-life, I wear something other than my body:
a clear dress with all my organs
swimming where you can see.
We scraped away what was awful
and tried to cling to what was left
with ourmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-77312240145897542182015-12-21T17:58:00.000-08:002015-12-22T12:52:34.846-08:00Solstice | 2015
Longest night of the year and I am grateful for these poetry encounters that have occurred since I last posted.
POEMS
"Heartsleight" at Delirious Hem
"Fable," "Acultomancy," & "Witch Dog" at Luna Luna
"Mutual Centaur" & "Hereditament" at Typo
"Their Days Are Numbered" at Entropy
"See? Monsters." at Gorgon Poetics
"Mayday" & "Cave Gifts" at Enclave
"This Summer it mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-28641026475847601162015-05-05T21:51:00.001-07:002015-05-05T21:51:48.291-07:00heartsmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-80802534733850430712015-04-29T09:46:00.000-07:002015-05-04T11:36:17.483-07:00timeokay I'm going to blog for a minute like it is 2005.
my relationship to time feels very peculiar and this has always been true but somehow always feels new somehow as if it is different suddenly. as if at some point in the past I had a relationship with time that felt pedestrian and knowable. I do feel disappointed with myself for not having more discipline re: slowing down and noticing things, mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-35532162258830855992015-03-17T09:28:00.002-07:002015-05-03T17:51:12.156-07:00approaching the equinox1. Talking about erasure w/ Gillian Devereux
The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test
Curated by Jessica Smith;
with Michelle Detorie, Gillian Devereux, Kathy Ernst, K. Lorraine Graham and Sheila Murphy & an afterword by Maureen Thorson
2. “The Meat World,” “Solstice,” and “Blink Witch” + “Other” (chapter from Sin in mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-66383867725385238802015-01-10T11:12:00.001-08:002016-05-17T22:07:55.491-07:00Another review, New Poem, & After-Cave on December SPD Poetry Bestsellers list!Rob McLennan wrote a thoughtful review of After-Cave
My poem "The River" (an erasure from the book-length erasure The Sin in Wilderness) is in the wonderful new issue of 17seconds
&
I'm so excited that After-Cave in on the December SPD Poetry Bestsellers list!
also, I'm *so* into this customer review of After-Cave posted on Amazon.
mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-24024060943035273412014-12-10T09:15:00.000-08:002016-05-17T22:07:55.484-07:00Two Reviews and an Interview
TWO new reviews in the latest issue of GALATEA RESURRECTS (#23)JOHN BLOOMBERG-RISSMAN ReviewsAfter-Cave by Michelle Detorie(Ahsahta Press, Boise, ID, 2014)&EILEEN TABIOS EngagesAFTER-CAVE by Michelle Detorie(Ahsahta Press, Boisie, ID, 2014)&A new interview at American Microreviews & InterviewsINTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE DETORIE, AUTHOR OF AFTER-CAVE INTERVIEWmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-7322673899452466232014-12-04T15:26:00.000-08:002014-12-04T18:44:25.290-08:00Fall Things1. audio from my reading at Indian Springs School.
I was very inspired by my visit to ISS, and was especially heartened to encounter the vibrant and engaged curriculum developed by poets Jessica Smith and Douglas Ray. Also, Heidi Lynn Staples is awesome. So fun to read with her. Audio of her reading is here.
2. My poem "Pine Needles" is day two at the Delirious Hem Advent calendar.
3. Janicemdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-73046712574079658502014-11-09T12:01:00.000-08:002016-05-17T22:06:50.387-07:00SPD recommends After-Cave!
http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/List/53/Lister.aspx
mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-60657056006567639282014-11-02T15:01:00.003-08:002016-05-17T22:06:50.374-07:00After-Cave at SPD
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781934103548/aftercave.aspx
After-Cave germinates in a space that is
desolate and dangerous. It invites the reader to nestle in the narrator’s skin
as a movement towards livability is recorded. The words collect on the
speaker’s dermis, galvanically; groggily we awake in the eyes of a girl,
fifteen, perhaps animal and perhaps human, maybe alive and possibly mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-17808762435774380132014-10-02T20:25:00.000-07:002016-05-17T22:07:55.477-07:00I got reviewed!!!http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-934103-54-8
Detorie extracts a poetics "against dying" out of a landscape of ruin and wilderness in this spirited full-length debut. The book comprises three long sequences concerning questions of shelter, destruction, and agency, which, though formally mercurial, remain linked through a single speaker who describes herself as "15. Female. Human (I think)." mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-36222741546457333592014-10-02T20:23:00.001-07:002016-05-17T22:06:50.368-07:00After-Cave!!!!!https://ahsahtapress.org/product/after-cave/
After-Cave
Michelle Detorie
After-Cave is the narration of “an adolescent female who may or may not be human,” an odyssey feral, feminist, and ecopoetical. More pressing than hunger for this speaker is the need to know what “cruelty” means and how one might live in its absence. In this way,After-Cave is a book about the impossible and howmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-6769220173260319642014-04-30T09:39:00.003-07:002014-04-30T09:39:34.803-07:00Last day of April
This morning I encountered a creature digging a heart-shaped hole.
A poem from The Sin in Wilderness is up at Newport Life Magazine.mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-15892065461874623072014-04-23T22:27:00.001-07:002014-04-30T09:35:47.079-07:00Some Happy Things are sparkling I love you helloHi!
I was on the radio. You can listen here: http://www.kcsb.org/blog/2014/04/23/poet-michelle-detorie-erasing-words-discovering-magic-april-15-2014/
Thank you Chryss Yost and Amy Boutell for having me.
My "Notes Towards A Feral Poetics" essay is included in this omg awesome beautiful collection from eohippus labs http://eohippuslabs.com/8/stealth
Thank you Andrea Quaid, Juliana mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-37291932406217716432014-03-07T09:06:00.003-08:002014-03-07T09:06:46.665-08:00Feral Thing Tinyside (2006) now available for digital consumptionHey, there.
My "tinyside" (like a broadside, but tiny), Feral Thing, is now available as a pdf from Maureen Thorson's Big Game Books. & just look at all those beautiful covers! Maureen is not only an amazing poet and publisher, but a truly gifted designer. I feel lucky to have a number of these tinysides, as they are truly wonderful objects to look at and touch.mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-78013930651729460592014-01-25T20:07:00.002-08:002014-01-25T20:07:21.199-08:00Writers' Cafe Radio Interview (January 7, 2014)mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-57736595962697656762013-11-20T18:33:00.000-08:002015-01-05T15:23:26.609-08:00november erasures | from _the sin in wilderness_
erasures made from pages of The Singing Wilderness, by Sigurd Olsonmdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-51122549185846975402013-10-01T18:44:00.004-07:002013-10-01T18:44:24.647-07:00Poems from Fur Birds in N/Ahttp://nalitjournal.wordpress.com/issues/issue-two/mdetorie2/mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-23058682596050473092013-09-03T16:26:00.004-07:002013-11-20T18:36:00.862-08:00Women of Visual Poetry Issue of The VoltaJessica Smith edited a beautiful collection of visual poetry for this month's Volta. Check it out!
here is a link to my piece.mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-15896518424941656752013-08-25T16:11:00.001-07:002013-08-25T16:11:36.337-07:00FUR BIRDS runner up in Sawtooth Prize, will be published by Ahsahta in March 2015!!!I am so so so happy!
https://ahsahtapress.org/open-selection-and-sawtooth-runner-up/
mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-40257298689918610802013-08-07T16:24:00.000-07:002015-05-04T09:31:17.564-07:00poems that I've read recently and lovedthis awesome collaboration with Erica Lewis and Mark Stephen Finein
Tuesday poem #18 : Pattie McCarthy : sonnets 28, 29, & 30 from x y z & &
Anne Boyer's Money City Sick As Fuck
all of Ash Smith's nanowrimopoems and especially this one
Jessica Smith's bird/memory poems at Tsk
everything by C.S. Giscombe; here's a fox
these Claire Hero poems from Sing, mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30574775.post-54910947306866910542013-07-25T12:37:00.001-07:002013-07-25T12:37:12.582-07:00feverssomething I want to fix it's impossible deep in the body where I can't see it like the marrow of a nervousness a fringe just touching just barely the body is so soft and pliable I feel it creaking the slackening and unslackening of my limbs I forget myself forget to bring the body its getting so old so heavy I shouldn't complain no don't let them hear you even your inner monologues should be mdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678218271885988491noreply@blogger.com0