AWP 2013: Poetry Blooms in Boston

Thanks for stopping by to say Hi! I hope you’re having a fantastic AWP and are inspired to write, write, write when you get home and recover from the excitement.
A short hello about me: I’m a poet and book reviewer whose work can be heard on the online show, Poet As Radio. I earned my MFA from the University of San Francisco and was recently awarded a Kundiman Fellowship. My writing has appeared in Drunken Boat, Versal, EOAGH, Spiral Orb, The Collagist, Mead Magazine, Eratio, and other journals. Currently I’m working on a chapbook titled “Whiskey, Water, and White Dwarves”, as well as a series of essays on tantric meditation and poetry.
I’ll be staffing the Kundiman Booth at AWP (#408) on Saturday from 11:30am-5:30pm. Come by and we can talk poetry and play a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock.
Take care, dream big, and I hope we cross paths again soon!

Poetics of Trance

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon

What is the difference between sleeping and trance? Dream and waking? Consciousness and free will? Conditioning and personality? Check out Drunken Boat 16’s folio on Trance Poetics and get the 411 on all this. Kristin Prevallet has curated a wide-ranging exploration of trance poetics in forms aural, visual, and written, including my poems, “Hypnogogic,” (based on a most intense waking dream state), “In Full View,” “Lucid: One Dream,” and “You Know Where You’ve Been.”
You can click on the “listen” button by each poem to hear an extra feature if you so desire. Poetry as the Fifth Element in a garden, from a visit to Portland’s wonderful Lan Su Chinese Garden accompanies “Hypnogogic.” There are background tidbits in the recordings of the other poems too. If I had realized that the recordings were going to accompany the poems, I would have made my voice sound sexier. I thought the recordings were going to go on a blog or archive somewhere else. I must have been sleeping. 🙂