Saturday, November 12, 2016

This Just In: I'm Going To Be A Hyacinth Girl!

You guys have some pop culture goodness to look forward to from me next year. My poetry chapbook, Playing One on TV, has been selected for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2017!

This book started out as a NaPoWriMo project, four years ago. A fun, lighthearted project turned into a manuscript with deeper feminist explorations of girlhood, womanhood, and race. HGP is the perfect press to publish it, not to mention one of my favorite chapbook publishers. I can't wait to see it in print and share it with you all.

First Pushcart Nom!

Received a nice surprise this week that the lovely folks at Posit nominated my poem, "A Spill on the Grid," for a Pushcart Prize. I'm especially excited to see one of my "Malala poems" get this honor. In case you missed it, you can read the poem here.

New Poem In Juked

Happy to have my poem, " motherhooded ," in the new issue of Juked , just in time for the end of National Poetry Month and Mother...