This Week's Writing 5/4/24

A new chapbook, long covid as a feminist issue, and more!

First, I have a new chapbook out! Superintelligence (LJMcD Communications) is a collection of collage poems, including a villanelle of quotes form Dan Brown and a pantoum using bits of the Poetry Foundation website. It is a vital part of every home library! Get it now! ($4.99 ebook/$12.00 paperback)

And here’s what I published this week.

If you read one thing by me this week, read:

Long Covid is a feminist issue. (EIH)

Politics

Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview is a portrait of an evil and ignorant man. (Public Notice)

Edwin Eisendrath interviewed me about the two party system and other things. (The Big Picture)

Cultural Criticism

petro ck’s poetry collection mouthouthoughs is the dada that is not dada. (periodicities)

The Fall Guy unfortunately isn’t about the fall guy. (EIH)

The male muse in The Prince of Tides. (Splice Today)

The Quiet Place is stalked by ableism. (EIH)

Drummer Jim White and guitarist Marisa Anderson make weird experimental New Age wallpaper. (Chicago Reader)

Poetry

I replaced first person pronouns in a bunch of quotes with the words “someone else.” (Dusie)

I listed every use of “self” in Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People. (Synchronized Chaos)

A couple of short poems. (Five Fleas)

I can't remember if

Blurb

Many people
who are more important than me
say
that I am important.

Buy my book.

Out of season haiku. (Five Fleas)

writing a haiku
in the snow
the dog pees

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