My day at the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was a cavalcade of awesomeness. My talk on humor in poetry had a good crowd including Tim Seibles and David Tomas Martinez. I didn't know RuPaul was talking behind me on a slide the whole time.

Kimiko Hanh woke us up and gave me a million things to think about. Can't wait to try writing my first zuihitsu. Then a wonderful reading by students from all over the state. My fave title: "I am a Dodecahedron" (Booyah!)

Then a cosmic panel on the body with Robin Coste Lewis, Jericho Brown and my NYU guru Mark Doty. Then Robin's reading of a lifetime (I didn't cry but almost did), which I had to follow :S, then Jericho and Mark shared the stage. I mean WHAT?!

Got to meet the lovely Ellen Bass, too! Thank you, Marie and Jen and Jeffrey McDaniel, for having me and for putting on such a WONDERFUL festival. I lived a lifetime of poetry in a day, and, to quote Jericho, I am so very grateful.

Poems don't write themselves. Somebody's got to do it, and this summer, it could be you. Dive into poetry writing with an 8-week course for all skill levels.

Every Wednesday from 7-8, we'll read and discuss poems by exciting contemporary poets on a variety of themes, then we'll write poems (or drafts of poems that can be revised later) based on prompts and share our work. This will be a safe, supportive space in which we will be feel free to tap into our secret wells of creative irrationality. We'll cover a new topic in every session including venues for publishing your work.

After the last class on June 29, we'll have an open mic DMSC at which you can share your poems with an audience. Take 1 class or all 8. Single sessions are $15 each; sign up for all 8 at a discount price of $100.

SIGN UP HERE! 

Thank you, Molly Schultz, for this great article about last night's reading in the Daily! You rock! 

Today I'm up on NPM Tumbler. This was a total blast to write. Every day in April, a different poet discusses craft issues on their brains. Thank you, Sarah Blake Schoenholt, for inviting me to join this amazing line-up! 

Allison Titus
Aziza Barnes
C. Russell Price
Carmen Gimenez Smith
D. Gilson
deborah brandon
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Eugenia Leigh
Gina Myers
Joshua Bennett
Joyelle McSweeney
Kyle Dargan
Lo Kwa Mei-en
Major Jackson
Mary Hickman
Max Ritvo
Shane McCrae
Stacey Brown
Vanessa Villareal
Wendy Chin-Tanner
Didi Jackson
Giovanni Singleton
Justin Boening
Kathleen Rooney
Saara Raappana
Wo Chan
Erica Lewis
T'ai Freedom Ford
Monica Ong Reed

TONIGHT! Join the cavalcade of international poets at The Poetry Extension's inaugural technotastic reading, streaming live at 7 pm Toronto time. Right in your living room! Pants optional! And check out this line-up!

Rebecca Perry
Kaddy Benyon
Emily Berry
Jack Underwood
Ada Limon
Sara Peters
Matthew Tierney
Natalya Anderson
Jennifer L. Knox

It'll be recorded so that you can watch it the next day. Fun, right?!

Click here to go to there

Whoever said people aren't reading anymore is a dingdong. These newish lit mags kick ass!

Viva, Pinwheel!

The Journal! Photo courtesy by Christopher Citro!

Well, whatta surprise! My poem "Nazi Art" is up on Verse Daily!

"Yoohoo! Nazis!"

So my dearest Ada Limón glitterated/curated poems at The New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show last night. Isn't that the craziest thing ever? I saw pictures of her and the girls riding around in a golf cart. She included a poem of mine in the show, from my first book. Here are the brilliant Trish Harnetiaux and Heather Grossmann standing next to it...and it's as big as a billboard! Life just keeps getting crazier, but in a good way!

From the Shippensburg University Slate! Thanks, Slate, for making me sound not so stupid!