Spring is here and I’m happy to celebrate poems new and old. My third full-length collection of poems, The Last Girl, will be available later this year. Along with it, the ASP/SFWP consortium is also putting out a new edition of my first collection, Difficult Weather. Below you’ll find a sample poem from each book….
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The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a cool sort of combination of chain letter and a “tag-you’re-it” interview game for writers. I was tagged by Nick Courtright (who was tagged by Kyle McCord who was tagged by Matt Guenette who was tagged by Mary Biddinger who was tagged by Jennifer Militello…) to interview myself about my…
A Letter from Cynthia Matsakis
Anyone who knows the writer, artist and therapist Cynthia Matsakis is lucky indeed. I met her when we were both undergraduate poets at the University of Maryland, where she wowed her professors and fellow students with her fierce, imagistic, lyrical poems. Since then, we’ve read and worked together, co-founded the non-profit women’s’ arts organization Pandora,…
A Very ASP Holiday
Well, it’s that festive season once again, and we at ASP are celebrating the end of our first year in business by decking the halls of our imaginary offices and filling the wassail bowl. In response to fevered requests, we’ve decided to throw open our doors, as it were, and show the public how our…
On Becoming a Publisher
I’ve wanted to be a publisher since I was ten years old. It was then that I produced my first, very limited editions, folding sheets of construction paper into folios I stitched or glued together. Whether I filled them with my own drawings and poems, or passages of my father’s favorite books, I loved the…
A Great Poetry Magazine Turns 120: The Poet Lore Birthday Party
Writers love to talk about what a thick skin it takes to do what we do, and how quickly inured to rejection we become. Don’t believe a word of it. Whether it comes in a form letter or personally scribbled note with the encouragement to “send more,” every returned submission has its own particular bite….