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Fear of a Gay Planet
Now that we've made epic, historical strides toward equality on the racial front by electing an African-American President, a lot of people feel complacent and sated. As if racism has been eradicated....
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Give Me Moe
One thing I've figured out about myself is that I'm a sparse blogger. An intermittent one. A random, "Sure, I read other people's blogs every day, and oh, yeah, I have one, too. Wow. I should actually...
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The Second Most Important Vote of 2008
A vote for my captions is a vote for change. And for Obama--again. And for bringing the troops home. Stacey Lynn Brown: Captions you can believe in.
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2008: A Recap
With one day officially left in 2008, I've been looking back on this year. It's been a momentous one on many, many fronts: the highest highs and some of the most devastating lows. Here are some of the...
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Cradle Song
It's here! At long last, Cradle Song is available for order. For all of you who sent your empathy, your sympathy, and your support during that whole fiasco this summer, thank you. It was well worth it...
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Blossom on the Tree, You Know How I Feel
My box of books arrived this weekend, and while I've been waiting and waiting for this moment for what seemed like a lifetime, I didn't dive right into them. Instead, I went to Disney on Ice with my...
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A Cottage Industry
I'm leaving in a few hours to head to Atlanta for my first reading from the book as a book. It feels very fitting that this debut is happening in Atlanta, my hometown and the locus of most of the...
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Up, Up, and Away
It's crazy to me that it's that time of year again. Even though we didn't make it there last year, it always feels like it's impossibly soon for AWP to be happening. (Maybe that's because it's an...
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Live Nude Girl in the Devil's Territory Sings a Cradle Song
I didn't post an AWP recap because it was a really disjointed experience for me. I guess I'm old school now because I'm still clinging to those AWPs of yore, when there was only one bookfair, and I...
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Westward, Ho
I'm going to be taking a little trip soon, a little poetry trip. I say it's a poetry trip only because I plan to claim it on my next year's taxes. It's actually a trip back to Oregon, back to the green...
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Gobsmacked
I woke up on this gray and leftover-wintry day, only to find that the kind folks at Poetry Daily had posted not one but three of the poems from Cradle Song!I was gobsmacked. Not only because it was...
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Blinking in the Spotlight
Many, many thanks to the wonderful and talented Rigoberto González for choosing Cradle Song for the Small Press Spotlight on the National Book Critics Circle blog. His questions were incredibly...
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Loss
Bird-Understander by Craig ArnoldOf many reasons I love you here is one the way you write me from the gate at the airport so I can tell you everything will be alright so you can tell me there is a bird...
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For My Next Trick
I finally started working on The Next Thing. It's taken me a long time to come around to it, for a variety of reasons. For one thing, the production of a book, from start to finish, is quite a daunting...
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Along Came Venus
It's back-to-school time, and I'm crunched: prepping classes, creating last-minute syllabi for classes I haven't taught before, trying to find the office decoration balance between what's appropriate...
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Memory
On the eight anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to share this excerpt from an essay called "Leap" by Brian Doyle. The link to read the full essay is here.A couple leaped from the South Tower, hand in hand....
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Breaking a Line
I'm up today on Linebreak, reading a gorgeous poem by Keith Montesano. Clicky!
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Gratitude
Among the many, many things that I've been this year--mother, wife, newly published poet, assistant professor--blogger has not been high on my list. It's not that I don't have good intentions. I read...
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Call for Submissions and An Unveiling
The editors, Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. We are seeking poems that...
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Where I'll Be at AWP
Last-minute packing, printing, and prospectus writing as I get ready to head to Denver tomorrow. Here's where I'll be:Thursday April 7, 10 am: Booksigning at the C&R Press tableThursday April 7, 6...
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AWP Bits, For Eduardo
I'm back in St. Louis after an amazing and utterly exhausting AWP. I don't mean to rub it in for all the folks who couldn't make it, but this year's AWP in Denver was one of the best I've ever been to....
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Clicky
The good people at The Rumpus have done me a tremendous favor today by posting a poem from the new manuscript as well as an incredibly generous review of Cradle Song by Brian Spears. I'm so grateful...
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Clicky, Part Deux
The lovely and talented Ruth Ellen Kocher asked me to write a guest blog post for her blog, About a Word. Here's the link.
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