I was asked some great questions by the Irish online mag, Headstuff! I'm so glad to got to meet this publication. Thanks for having me, Sam!

'I didn't know you were allowed to make people laugh at a poetry reading' | Interview with Jennifer Knox - HeadStuff

Who have been the biggest poetic influences on your work throughout your career? James Tate, certainly. I saw him read in Iowa City, and everyone was cracking up. I didn't know you were allowed to make people laugh at a poetry reading.

I’m super excited to talk poetry this morning on Talk of Iowa with Charity Nebbe, Kyle McCord and Paul Brooke! 10 am Iowa time!

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After New Limestone Review published my poem , “Meeting Myron Floren,” I worried, “Maybe people don’t know who he is!” So…heeeeeeere’s Myron!

I'm thrilled to announce that my next books of poems, tentatively titled Crushing It, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in Fall 2020!!! My heart flutters as I type this!

I love the poems on SWWIM, and I'm honored that they deemed my waxing moment re-visit-able!

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Sally Ziph penned the first draft of this terrific poem (emphasis on terror) in our "Writing Poems that Kill" online class last year, and now it lives on Gerald So’s killer crime site, The Five-Two! Congratulations, Sally! Be warned: the poem and Sally's reading is chilling.

Sally Weston Ziph

KIM WALL SPEAKS You thought they'd never find me that I was fish food, just bones, no flesh to tell the tale, the truth. You black-smithed metals into a tin can sub, tricked me dropped the lid, and I went under down to Hell.

A poem from the new book’s up on Berfrois! Thanks, Russell Bennet, for finding it the perfect home!

This year, I’m donating a percentage of revenue from all my online classes to the Midwest Writing Center. The Executive Director, Ryan Collins, is an incredible organizer who has made writing and creativity accessible for people in the Quad Cities and far beyond. MWC pays their core staff, but they also have hundreds of talented volunteers. I love the work they do for writers, writing teachers, and students of all ages through conferences, workshops, contests, readings, and discussions. MWC has built a thriving, inclusive creative community, and I want to support their work.

So I’m giving $10 from every $60 sign-up fee for my first class of 2019, “Publishing Your Poetry,” on March 2, 1-3 Iowa time. MWC Members can sign up for $50. Click here for deets.

Linda Umans penned a draft of this poem in our "Writing Poems That Kill" class last fall, and I loved it! So thrilled to see it in Gerald So’s The Five-Two! "She wasn’t an easy person" perfectly captures the ambivalence. Congratulations, Linda!