tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20484582949166895252024-02-22T07:32:39.629-08:00Literary MagpieSome Writing and Some MuseLiterary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-26325457969426503182015-06-05T08:12:00.004-07:002015-06-05T08:12:58.463-07:00New Poems in New PlacesFirst and foremost, I wanted to apologize for the long lapse in posting. I, nor this blog is dead by any means. That said, I've not posted in ages.<br />
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I've had some great opportunities for publication this spring, so I am going to take a moment ot share them with you.<br />
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1) Fifth Wednesday Journal kindly printed my poem "Adolescence: Intermission" in their #15 Spring issue. You can learn more about their journal here: <a href="http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/">http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/</a><br />
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2) My poem "Rudolph Valentino: At Night" appears in the Spring Issue of the Florida Review. Thank you very much to the poetry editor Kenneth Hart for helping to make the poem even better than when I first sent it to the journal. You can find more about it here: <a href="http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/">http://www.fifthwednesdayjournal.com/</a><br />
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3) Finally, you can read not one, but TWO of my poems online at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Thank to Erik Kennedy for taking these poems and giving them a home! You can read both online here:<br />
<a href="http://queenmobs.com/2015/06/poems-jory-mickelson/">http://queenmobs.com/2015/06/poems-jory-mickelson/</a><br />
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It has been a great spring for publications. Thanks to all of the journals and editors for their hard work in bringing my and others work to readers! We wouldn't have audiences without you.<br />
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Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-80384699867112370632014-09-20T09:07:00.000-07:002014-09-20T09:07:08.299-07:00Review: Kelly McQuain's VELVET RODEO<br />
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Poet Kelly McQuain's chapbook opens with a poem that deftly draws the reader in and launches them forward into the rest of the collection. "Scrape the Velvet From Your Antlers" pauses briefly on a final rhymed couplet:<br />
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<i>Not on this hill, not in that house.</i><br />
<i>Something calls you somewhere else.</i><br />
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What drives much of this collection so beautifully is McQuain's skill with rhyme, alliteration, and sonics. He competently wields music to create tension and both push the reader forward and circle them back into the poem's ringing eddies.<br />
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This combined with his evident skill in line break create a propulsion that tows along even the reluctant reader. From "Alien Boy,"<br />
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<i>Each time a cell divides is a new chance</i><br />
<i>for the world to go wrong </i><br />
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If this collection has any weakness it can be that the music sometimes rings too loudly, or seems to cloy about the reader, reducing the power of the mostly steady momentum McQuain creates.<br />
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To his credit, McQuain isn't afraid to tackle larger, often fraught subjects in his poems from the origins of man in "Creation Myth," to race in "Southern Heat," and "Brave."<br />
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In this chapbook's 40 odd pages McQuain navigates the narrative tensions of What was/Was not and What is/Is about to be.<br />
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I recommend readers on the lookout for a solidly written chapbook to give McQuain's VELVET RODEO a read.<br />
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Kelly McQuain's VELVET RODEO was selected by C. Dale Young for BLOOM magazine's2013 Chapbook Prize for Poetry, and it is available at their Bloom Books <a href="http://bloomliteraryjournal.org/shop/velvet-rodeo/">online store</a>. His poetry is also forthcoming in A&U Magazine and the anthologies The Queer South and The Sonnets Remixed.Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-73593191214980653912014-09-03T12:29:00.001-07:002014-09-03T12:29:12.621-07:00New Work in Weave Magazine and OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am happy to see that sections from my long poem (15 pages long!) "Self-Portrait With Men in Cars" are out in both OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts and Weave Magazine.<br />
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You can download the entire issue of OCHO including an audio recording of me reading my poems. <br />
Do it <a href="http://8888ocho.com/">HERE!</a><br />
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You can check out Weave Magazine and order an issue featuring great work from a variety of writers <a href="http://www.weavemagazine.net/2014/06/issue-11-contributor-list.html">OVER HERE!</a><br />
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Weave happens to feature the work of Stephen Mills whom you can read my interview with <a href="http://jorymickelson.blogspot.com/2011/03/longish-interview-with-handsome-poet.html">RIGHT HERE</a>Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-16289276277421071162014-08-02T10:14:00.000-07:002014-08-02T12:32:26.892-07:00Interview with Poet Erynn Rowan Laurie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i> <span style="font-family: Calibri;">"I think birds are mysteries, and this is why poets so often bring their presence into poems. "</span></i></span></h3>
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<i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #332c2c; line-height: 24px;">Erynn Rowan Laurie is a writer, poet, and professional madwoman currently living in Trieste, Italy. Author of </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #332c2c; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://hiraethpress.com/store/books/fireflies-at-absolute/">Fireflies at Absolute Zero</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #332c2c; line-height: 24px;">, she is inspired by the early Irish poetic tradition and the place of the geilt, the mad poet, in Irish myth and literature. Born in New England, she joined the Navy and traveled to Hawaii and the west coast, where she fell in love with western Washington and spent three decades getting to know the land, the waters, and the dreamscape of her chosen home. You can follow her Italian adventures <a href="http://poetsperegrinatio.wordpress.com/">HERE</a>.</span></i><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Jory Mickelson: How do you see your
role as a poet? Is it to generate work that expresses your feelings/thoughts or
is there something deeper there?</span></b><br />
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to answer. I see the role of a poet, of myself as a poet, as something
multivalent and polymorphous. Certainly I write poems that explore my thoughts
and feelings, but that's rarely the entirety of what's going on in a given
poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For
me, the creation of a poem is a sacred act. I intend the poem and its composition
to connect me to something outside of myself, as well as reaching very deeply
into the core of my being to draw out something essential about my experience
of life and of the world around me. Poetry is something I regard as a
devotional act, as well, and many of my poems address deities and spirits,
speak with their voices, or tell their tales. I've also done a lot of poetry
steeped in dream imagery and the feeling of being in a dreaming state, with a
sense of the surreal to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In
addressing the role of myself as poet, rather than the types of poetry I tend
to write, I am trying to follow the ancient traditions that place poets as
seers and spiritual figures, and to touch the wellspring of that inspiration in
a search for wisdom. This is as much an embodied, sensual wisdom of the flesh
as it is of literary tradition and knowledge, or of the types of spiritual
wisdom expressed in myth and folklore. I see my poetic purpose as, in part,
burrowing into mystery and finding meaning in physical and spiritual
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In
finding ways to experience and understand mystery, I also see my role as
delineating a poetic healing path through the experience of trauma and finding
ways to integrate that experience into a more functional life. There are poems
that I write strictly for my own personal work on my issues, poems that don't
ever see publication because they are too personal and they're not meant so
much as art as they are intended as medicine in an Asclepian, magical,
dreamwork sense. Some of this poetry may be nearly as artful and polished as
the work I present for publication, but a lot of it is very rough-hewn and
visceral, intended primarily to begin the work of speaking about unspeakable
topics, bringing them into consciousness in a more-or-less safe manner so that
I can work through them without having to voice them to other people before I'm
ready.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ultimately
I see my poetic work as a way to speak deep truths into the world, and myself
as a keeper of the sorcery of words. Words are incredibly powerful things and
can be wielded in so many ways – as weapons, as tools, as seduction, as art, as
glamour and illusion, as healing, as the making of ardent wishes. All of these
things are revelations of truths of different sorts, or concealments of truth in
ways that highlight the deepest roots of a thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing a reader first notices about your poems is that they tend to be all
lowercase and mostly without punctuation. Did this style develop naturally? Was
it something that happened with revision? Can you talk a little bit about your
decision to move away from typical grammatical structures?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">ERL:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> There are a couple of reasons for
that style. One of my favorite poets as a child was e.e. cummings, whose work
usually lacks capitalization and has non-traditional structures. Later
influences on my work include the Surrealists, and the Beat poets, all of whom
have tended toward non-traditional structures, less emphasis on formal grammar,
and lowercase typography, though each of those poetic traditions approaches
their subject matter quite differently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
also find that giving less attention to capitalization and punctuation leaves
the work with a more stream of consciousness feel and can foster a more
dreamlike atmosphere, which is important to some of the types of poems I write.
Ambiguity can arise when the reader finds a lack of punctuation in some of the
poems, allowing more room for idiosyncratic interpretations by the reader, and
for multiple possible layers of meaning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In
German, nouns are all capitalized, and that lends a very different emotional
weight to texts in that language than English has. If you look at the work of
Rilke in German, your eye is drawn to the capitalization and to the nouns
where, in English, that visual emphasis is absent. I think this gives German
poetry a different sort of rhythm than poetry in English, and illustrates what
I'm getting at to some degree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Rather
than a focus on traditional English language punctuation and capitalization, I
prefer to work with sound and flow, with how things feel in the mouth, the
vibration of sound in my chest or the air passing between my lips, and the
various regular and irregular rhythms that can be generated through line or
stanza length, or word spacing and breaks. Consonance and assonance within a
line or a stanza or an entire poem can encourage particular emotional
resonances, feelings of warmth or distance, or evoke feelings of connection
with particular times or places. Some sounds are bright and sharp, while others
are rounder and deeper, more resonant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think that some of this may be the result of my having spent years as a
vocalist with different choral groups from the time I was a child until well
into my adulthood. To me, language is very musical, and its sonic qualities are
important. I can also liken certain types of sounds to various types of musical
instruments in a poetic context, and strive to create poems that are
reminiscent of different types of music. Some poems are percussive, with the
driving depth of timpani or the complexity of a gamelan ensemble, while others
are more like strings, or woodwinds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If
we consider poetry a form of sorcery, then sound sets the mood and pattern for
the spells being woven and the realities being created. Some poems have a
feeling of breathlessness and a rush to them, while others build slowly,
layering on their power with repetition and emphasis. In these poems,
capitalization can signal a shift in the power being touched and directed, the
choice of a line or stanza break might place a breath as effectively as any
comma or period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In
translations of the Greek magical papyri, there are words capitalized as voces
magicae, as words of power, that stand out from the text in an emphasis of
their potency, and these words or strings of sounds might be recited or chanted
in ways distinct from the rest of the text, lending them a particular sense of
uncanniness. My poem on Abraxas borrows a couple of those words – ARAI, LAILAM
– and in the recitation of that poem, those sounds seem to come out of an abyss
of magical vibration. Sometimes, when the sounds and the words are just
right, I can feel the hair on my arms rise when I recite them aloud. For me,
there is a liquidity in non-traditional structures that's very appealing, and I
find it easier to tap into that electricity, that potency, when I use those
techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I've
done some work with traditional poetic forms and, as a prose writer, I'm very
conscious of proper capitalization, grammar, and punctuation. Even in my prose
work, though, I try to have a poetic consciousness as I approach the page.
Nonfiction can absolutely have a flow and a feeling of artfulness to it that
is, sadly, often neglected, particularly in academic writing. It's possible to
be factual and clear while still having a sense of the beauty of words or the
resonance of sound, and to bring a poetic turn to the phrasing. Language should
not have to be angular and utilitarian any more than architecture must. I think
there's a difference between clean lines and sheer, boring ugliness, but
appreciating that and bringing out those differences can lead one to walk a
delicate balance. How do you get your point across quickly and easily while
still allowing breath and life to flow through the words? How do you engage the
reader if your goal is clarity of communication?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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honestly thing most prose writers would be well-served by studying poetry and
poetic technique, and that it would help bring something deeper to their work.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I would say that your poetry is lodged
in landscape. Deeply. Do you find, now that you have moved to Italy from the
Pacific Northwest, that your work is changing because of it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">ERL:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> The separation from a place that’s
been so important to me for so long feels strange, but I’ve always been
something of a wanderer. I miss the place, but am quite happy where I ended up.
I’ve been spending so much time attending to the purely physical aspects of
moving from one continent to another and establishing a new place to live that
I’ve not yet had a lot of time to settle into the spiritual aspects of it until
very recently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Because
of the physical demands of transplanting my whole life to a place so very far
away, I’ve honestly not had that much time or energy to write, though I’ve done
a few poems for an anthology recently. The anthology was a themed one, so it
wasn’t really a chance to dig down into the place where I’m living now. I’m
taking up the challenge of learning a new language, finding new friends, and
trying to navigate a new city that’s not laid out in ways I’m used to. I’m
slowly growing acquainted with the streets and alleys, the waterfront, and the
green spaces of Trieste, where James Joyce and Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba
lived and wrote. I’m finding a new pace for my life and developing new rhythms
and habits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Certainly,
I think that being in a place so different is going to affect my poetry and my
prose writing, once I’m able to get more comfortably back into that mental and
emotional space. With the Adriatic Sea and the hills of the Carso surrounding
me, there is a certain familiarity to the landscape, like the waters and
mountains surrounding Seattle, but the entire atmosphere of the place is still
alien in a lot of ways. I haven’t lived in a place with this much sun since
Hawaii, back in 1980. I always felt like the rain and the mist of the Salish
Sea helped cultivate a certain amount of my poetry, bringing forth certain
themes. The weather in Trieste is very different — more humid, hotter, windier,
and with vastly more thunderstorms. The levels of history here — Istrian,
Celtic, Roman, Austrian, Slovenian, Italian — it’s a fascinating border mix and
a brilliant weave of new things for me to explore. It’s all very exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Writers, over the course of their
work, tend to accumulate a set of repeated images. This is sometimes called
their symbol horde. What symbols do you see reoccurring in your own work? Also,
what would you say is the one animal that keeps appearing in your poems? Why do
you think that is?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">ERL:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> That’s an interesting question. I
think things that recur in my work tend to be oceanic themes - waves and mist
and things in and associated with the sea, for instance. Water, generally, but
the sea in specific, and the Well of Wisdom from Irish mythology; the salmon of
wisdom that lives there and migrates there from the ocean. Birds of many kinds
appear, over and over, as messengers or as a mask of the poet or as sentient
beings whose actions have meaning in an oracular or visionary sense. In the
same way, plants are sentient spirits here as well. They all, to me, have
mythic resonances and symbolic meanings, whether it’s the cedar that is central
to Pacific Northwest cultures, or the hazel tree that dispenses wisdom in Irish
lore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If
I were to consider which animal or animals keep showing up, I would say birds,
as a class, tend to be what I see most often. They are filled with so much
meaning, whether as symbols of freedom and independence, as in “Sugaring,”
where the poet becomes the fledgling and grows feathers to fly, or as spiritual
relations in “My Feathers Grow Out at Night.” They are hidden, otherworldly
beings with human speech and nations in “their secret,” sitting around their
fires at night when humans are not observing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Birds
fascinate me, and I’ve shared my home with many over the years. Birds have an
uncanniness to them, able to speak in a literal sense and to converse with
humans, but their ability to fly is central, and I think it touches on the poet
as a shamanistic figure, flying on the wings of words. For centuries, pens were
feather quills, filled with ink, carrying meaning in the trail of color left on
the page. Birds are omens, they’re harbingers of birth or death, they consume
the bodies of the dead; their cries evoke intense emotions of fear or delight
or sensuality. We speak of writing as “chickenscratch” or think of the
footprints of birds as letter-like symbols. Robert Graves spoke of how the
flight of cranes, to him, symbolized the origins of the alphabet in shapes
across the sky. The native songs and cries of different birds can sound like
words of human speech, language echoing in a deserted landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Look
at what Wallace Stevens does in “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” how
he manipulates image and emotion through the use of that one symbolic creature.
The poem is simple but so deeply layered. There is attention to the tiny
shimmer of movement that is the blackbird’s eye in a vast, mountainous
landscape; to the flight of a flock of blackbirds as a larger motion that takes
up the sky; and even just the implication of blackbirds through a
mistakenly-imagined shadow. There’s a fleetness there, an ability to mistake
one thing for another when birds are involved, because they are, in so many
ways, so alien to our experience. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think birds are mysteries, and
this is why poets so often bring their presence into poems. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do you find any
other kind of art influencing your own work? Would you say that an art form
outside of literature has helped to shape your work or specific poems and if
so, what is the poet's relationship to other kinds of artistic expression?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">ERL:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> It's funny you should ask this
question because I just got back from Turin last week, where I attended a talk
and panel discussion by Daniel Albright, a Harvard professor of literature and
music, who was talking about his most recent book, <i>Panaesthetics: On the
Unity and Diversity of the Arts</i> (Yale, 2014). He and a group of Italian
academics discussed the intersections and unities of the various arts – poetry,
music, sculpture, painting, literature – and it certainly both gave me a lot to
think about, and affirmed many of my own thoughts on the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always been influenced and informed by other arts in my poetry. One of my
poems, "Duchamp's Bride," came entirely out of a dream. I wrote it
down when I woke that morning, almost exactly as spoken by the dream-woman who
represented the bride from Marcel Duchamp's surrealist painting, "The
Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even." I had been recently listening
to a musical album by Black Tape for a Blue Girl, "The Scavenger
Bride," which was likewise inspired by the visual and literary works of
Duchamp and Kafka, and the "Bride" in particular. The visual and the
musical both came together in that dream state to produce a poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> The
surrealists, I think, were particularly good at taking inspiration from and
offering criticism of other art forms in their poetic works, whether literary,
visual, or musical. Because they were reacting against perceived constraints of
form and function, I think they were able to cross these lines quite
consciously as they created their different works and interacted in their
movement. Andre Breton, in his <i>Second Manifesto of Surrealism</i>, says,
"The problem of social action ... is only one of the forms of a more
general problem which Surrealism set out to deal with, and that is <i>the
problem of human expression in all its forms</i>." Everything was gathered
together through the medium of dream, and of other forms of randomization or
symbolization – divination methods like tarot, or tools like automatic writing,
for instance – then filtered into their poetic, literary, and visual work to
produce art that retains something of that dream state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> In
this sense, I'm inspired by occult art and symbol systems, by Siberian and
Northwest Native sculptural forms, by petroglyphs, by architectural forms.
Music speaks to me, and painting, and the Zen forms of Japanese gardens and
bonsai. I'm sometimes inspired by images or characters in movies and
television, as well. Is there anyone who doesn't have a visceral reaction to
the image of the false Maria, transforming in arcs of lightning and those
Saturnian electric rings from machine to flesh, when her blazing robotic heart
begins to beat, in the Fritz Lang film, "Metropolis"? How can these
things not be given form in words? How can they not inspire poetic works?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for this wide-ranging talk on poems, poetry, and place!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I've been reading CutBank Literary Magazine for years. It is the journal put out by the University of Montana, in Missoula so very close to where I grew up. I am thrilled to have two poems featured on their blog today! <br />
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You can read them <a href="http://www.cutbankonline.org/2014/07/14/all-accounts-and-mixture-poetry-by-jory-mickelson/">HERE</a>!<br />
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Hello friends, back in April <a href="http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/">Superstition Review</a> featured my poem "Dear Federico" on it's site. Today, they are featuring me reading my poem.<br />
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This poem originally came from struggling with the images in Lorca's <i>Poet in New York. </i>I am thrilled to have this poem featured in such a fine magazine. A special thanks to Eduardo Corral for suggesting I use poetry to work through my struggle of other poets' work.<br />
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Take a listen <a href="http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/blog/2014/07/01/sr-podvod-series-poet-jory-mickelson/">HERE</a>Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-87932517056511115702014-06-13T12:43:00.000-07:002014-06-13T14:22:20.335-07:00Keeping Up! Sundog Lit, Superstition Review and More!You can see new poems of mine in several places:<br />
Most recently <a href="http://sundoglit.com/">Sundog Lit</a> published two of my poems, "Welcome to the Hi-Line," and "Lange & O'Keeffe, 1933." You can read them both for free <a href="http://sundoglit.com/mickelson/">HERE</a><br />
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<a href="http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/">Superstition Review</a> also published a poem, "Dear Federico." Go <a href="http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue13/poetry/jorymickelson">HERE</a> to read it.<br />
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Strangely, many of the poems coming to print now are conversations with visual artists and writers. Federico Garcia Lorca, Dorthea Lange, Georgia O'Keeffe, Tristan Tzara."<br />
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There will be some more poems headed your way this summer. I am gearing up to get the new issues of <a href="http://5x5litmag.wordpress.com/">5x5 Literary Magazine</a> and <a href="http://codexjournal.com/">Codex Journal</a> out. We will be featuring some fantastic poets therein. With audio files! Codex is getting a face lift at the moment so keep checking back.<br />
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Stay tuned for good news and great summer reading!Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-89854053590626054412014-03-24T09:00:00.000-07:002014-03-24T09:00:06.107-07:00The Blog Tour!<div class="MsoNormal">
My fellow 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow <a href="http://www.sjsindu.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">S J Sindu</b></a>
asked me to take part in this writing meme-blog tour hybrid. It’s a way for
readers of other blogs to find new writers and for us writers to meet new
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I am primarily a poet and also write the occasional essay. I
also am the poetry editor of two literary magazines: <a href="http://www.5x5litmag.org/">5x5 Literary Magazine</a> and <a href="http://www.codexjournal.com/">Codex Journal!</a> I would love to see your
poems and if you happen to write in another genre, our other editors would love
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So, on with the blog tour questions:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve just started sending out my first manuscript of poems
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who Am I to Tell You This?</i> so
I am in a bit of a post-project slump. I’ve been cobbling poems together here
and there, but nothing definitive has come together yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve also begun research on a prominent figure in Pacific
Northwest history. I intend to write an essay using some of this person’s
writing in tandem with my own. No doubt, this will launch a whole series of
poems that branch off in new directions like ivy across brick. I don’t want to
say too much about it at this point, but the essay will focus on growing up in
Montana, being queer, and my struggle to come to terms with the impact this
historical figure had on my childhood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have always hated artist statements; they feel a bit like
preening. The main thing that makes my work different from others in its genre
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What I mean to say is that few writers are producing poems
about the queer experience from nonurban centers. I don’t know a great many
queer poets who are writing about landscape and environment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My work’s strengths are image and sound. Think Ziggy
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<span style="color: #30353c; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-effects-shadow-align: topleft; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 40.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 2700000; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 100.0%;">I write because I have to. I am compelled to put words on paper and then
obsessively arrange them and rearrange them. I don’t know what started this. I’ve always written for myself, but didn’t think that one could
write poetry to share with others until about seven years ago. I was reading
some poems and felt the need to try my hand at it. I haven’t looked back. </span></div>
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also write because I want my work to live somewhere outside of my head. </span><span style="color: #30353c;">I dream about finding my book in a bookstore some day and then in a used
bookstore after that--maybe a used inscribed copy to someone whom I remember. I
want my work to find someone who wants it as much as I do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #30353c; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-effects-shadow-align: topleft; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 40.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 2700000; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 100.0%;">I put a lot of scraps and lines down on paper . Usually I jot a
part of a poem or several ideas about a poem…lines, images, groupings of words
and let them accumulate on the page. When I think there is enough there to work with, I
begin building poems out of the pieces--sort of a lean-to from the branches I
collected if you will allow the metaphor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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From there, I shut the poem away and then come back to it again in a few days or
weeks depending on how urgent my need to look at it again is. Sometimes I know
exactly what it needs next. Sometimes I need to back away slowly and leave it
rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #30353c; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-effects-shadow-align: topleft; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 40.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 2700000; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 100.0%;">Poems take a good while for me after the drafting stage. There are
revisions, and rebreaking lines, and deciding what isn’t essential. And of course, this all happens more than once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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poem out on the page it loses some of its organic ability to change shape for
me. Typing gives words/lines/space a kind of codification that can set a poem
too quickly into a shape that may not be the best for it.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please check out the following writers, who are also
participating in this great blog tour…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Galactica</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> is a tattoo pusher. Big hair believer. Whiskey drinker.
Microhistorian. Business lady by day, introvert by night. A little
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #0d4de6;"><a href="http://saragalactica.com/">saragalactica.com</a></span></span></div>
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journalist, and photographer documenting queer life and love in St. Louis,
Missouri. He blogs at: <a href="http://www.newamuricangospels.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: #2e438b; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.newamuricangospels.tumblr.com</span></a>
(#nsfw)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-28339651631692123512014-03-17T07:28:00.000-07:002014-03-17T07:28:07.936-07:00Are You Going to Sign Up?<br />
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So, like 8,500 other folks, I applied for the Amtrak Writer's Residency program. The chances of me actually getting one of the 24 Golden Ticket spots are slim to none, but like all things residency and contest based, I treat them like the lottery. If I win, fantastic. If not, it has given me a little space to dream.<br />
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You can read a great summary of the current state of the residency <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/amtrak-writer-residency_n_4951783.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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Similarly, you can read how it all came to be <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/02/amtrak-train-writers-residencies-alexander-chee.html">OVER HERE</a>.Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-41620568419257531362014-03-13T07:31:00.000-07:002014-03-13T07:31:20.865-07:00What Are You Reading?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I am deep into the biography of John Horne Burns, the gay writer most known for his post-WWII novel <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gallery-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590170806/ref=la_B001K8AD08_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394720637&sr=1-1">The Gallery</a>. </i><br />
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The biography <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreadful-Short-Times-Horne-Burns/dp/1590515714/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y" style="font-style: italic;">Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns</a> by David Margolick paints a picture of a talented gay writer who finds himself unable to his own hardships and disappointments to the world about him.<br />
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It is wonderful to read about a queer writer during WWII and after.<br />
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Also this week, I am savoring the article by Edward Mendelson in <i>The New York Review of Books</i> about the secret life of W. H. Auden. I won't give any more away, but it is definitely a great read. You can get your hands on it <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/secret-auden/">HERE</a> for free!<br />
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What are you reading in print and online this week? I'd love to know!Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-66927896559777571972014-03-10T20:50:00.003-07:002014-03-10T20:50:45.945-07:00Return of the Blog Beast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I circled back wondering how long it's been since I've posted on this blog and it was much much longer than I thought.<br />
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This isn't to say there aren't exciting things happening in my writing world, just that I have been forgetting to tell you about them. Since <strike>sigh</strike> October, my work has appeared in a few more journals, AWP has come and gone from Seattle, and I have a few other interviews in the works.<br />
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<a href="http://5x5litmag.wordpress.com/">5x5 Magazine</a> has come back in a new and improved digital form and I've also become the 2014 Poetry Editor for <a href="http://codexjournal.com/">Codex Journa</a>l.<br />
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So please stay tuned and you will hear from me soon, or rather please tune in for the first time. I have some great things to share with you soon.<br />
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Also, in the next week, I will be part of a roving blog tour where I answer some questions about my writing process.Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-27035579127247658222013-10-02T19:19:00.000-07:002013-10-02T19:19:04.517-07:00A Joe Brainard Documentary free and online until October 9th!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joe Brainard was a writer and artist associated with the New York School. He is most well known for his book <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5945">I Remember</a>. <br />
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His work has inspired some of my own writing, and reading him always motivates me to write in new directions.<br />
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Until October 9th, you can watch a short, captivating documentary about Joe Brainard and his work online for free. Do yourself a favor and check it out <a href="http://www.vdrome.org/index.html#videos">HERE!</a>Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-38736799325199843012013-09-19T07:23:00.004-07:002013-09-19T07:23:52.581-07:00The Los Angeles Review of Books Tackles Poetry in a Post-AIDS Crisis World<div>
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The Los Angeles Review of Books, often features strong writers who find compelling topics to write on. This morning's article about reclaiming poetry from the AIDS crisis has a lot of meat and almost no gristle. <div>
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So Laura Chandra, a Fellow from this year's Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat posted this link on her Twitter Feed yesterday. It was one part gossip column and three parts historical fact. The article discusses an American visit between Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman.<br />
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Apparently, they were on "Thee" and "Thou" terms. <br />
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<a href="http://the-toast.net/2013/09/17/oscar-wilde-and-walt-whitman-did-it/">READ THE ARTICLE</a> and see what Walt Whitman had to say to a reporter the morning after!<br />
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Thanks again Laura for bringing this to my attention and to Mallory Ortberg over at <a href="http://the-toast.net/">The Toast</a> for putting it together.Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-44748517409213498522013-09-13T07:26:00.002-07:002013-09-13T07:26:42.670-07:00Some Attendees Experiences at Lambda Literary's Writers Retreat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So this photo of deeply troubled folks are some of the poets from the Lambda Literary Foundation's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. <br />
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I was fortunate to attend this July and it did a great deal for both my writing and my spirits in the post-MFA world that I found the rest of you have all been living in. I had no idea the rest of the world wasn't so writerly!<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/oped/09/11/lambdas-writers-retreat-for-emerging-lgbt-voices-the-2013-fellows-reflect/">PLEASE READ</a></b> what I and other fellows had to say about our week in Los Angeles working with a great faculty of LGBTQ authors.<br />
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It often feels as thought gay men who live outside the urban (even costal urban) experience don't exist in terms of news, culture, and writing. <br />
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I grew up in a town of less than 3,000 people, before the rise of the internet. There were no visible LGBTQ folks in either my life or my community. Hearing voices from these communities remind all of us of the work that still must be done.<br />
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Sometimes, all my worlds collide on the page. Check out this article over at <i>The Advocate </i>by a gay man living in Missoula, Montana. <a href="http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/09/11/op-ed-how-grizzlies-made-me-gay">READ IT HERE</a>Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-71740342656067105382013-09-08T11:09:00.003-07:002013-09-09T07:17:32.554-07:00Check out a new LGBTQ Microblog by the Gay and Lesbian Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide has a new microblog. It's filled with a good many things for LGBTQ readers and Writers.<br />
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Check it out <a href="http://glrw-glit.tumblr.com/">HERE</a><br />
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Consider subscribing the the actual magazine over <a href="http://www.glreview.org/">HERE</a>Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-53201129500157389752013-09-06T10:43:00.000-07:002013-09-06T10:43:04.219-07:00Lightning Strikes Several Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week marks the second time that my work has appeared in The Adirondack Review. I am deeply honored to have my poems see the light of day in this journal. The poem "Orizaba" is featured in the fall issue <a href="http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/jorymickelson2.html">HERE</a>. <br />
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If you want to read my poem "The nights are long here. Nowhere, a torch." from an earlier issue, you can check it out <a href="http://www.theadirondackreview.com/jorymickelson.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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Also this summer, The Collagist (which is one of my favorite online journals btw) featured my poem "Chapel" in issue 48. You can read that one <a href="http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2013/7/3/chapel.html">HERE</a><br />
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Please stop by and check out my work. Also please continue to read these amazing journals. Tell your friends about them. Send them your best work!<br />
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I also had a nice surprise this morning when <a href="http://eduardocorral.com/bio.html">Eduardo C. Corral</a> kindly pointed out to me (on Twitter) that <a href="http://www.poetshouse.org/">Poets House</a> was tweeting a line from my chapbook <a href="http://www.newsinspress.com/Winged_City_Chapbooks.html">SLOW DEPTH</a>.<br />
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Thanks for checking back in. Keep writing and keep in touch!Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-17860133605384483482013-07-11T18:29:00.001-07:002013-07-11T18:29:44.268-07:00There Are A Lot of Fellows Who Could Use a Little Help!<br />
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The same goes for <b>Stephen Sanchez</b> in poetry: </div>
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It also goes for <b>Joshua Barton</b> in the fiction workshop:</div>
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And <b>Eric Kossina</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>in the fiction workshop:</div>
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Repost this everywhere. Twice. Get on the computer and give. Then repost. Challenge your friends. This is a chance for you to directly impact the lives of other writers. Now. Concretely!</div>
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Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-60978902107321508472013-06-25T19:54:00.004-07:002013-06-25T19:54:52.069-07:00Where or Where has My Little Blog Gone?Shamefully, I realized that I have no updated this blog since May! And worse yet, the last time I updated it, I was asking for funds to help me get to the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat. Well, thanks to everyone's generosity, I made my funding goal and also some extra to help with travel expenses. I am thoroughly excited to head to Los Angeles at the end of the month and work with other writers from across the U.S., Canada, and the UK. <br />
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I find myself back in Bellingham, WA where this blog started so many years ago. My life is nothing bus cyclical. <br />
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Last night I read at <a href="http://www.poetrynight.org/">Poetry Night</a>. It is the first time I have read any poems publicly since my thesis defense way back in March. It was good to be among people who love writing, reading, and listening to poetry and spoken word. I look forward to attending again.<br />
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I don't have too much to add to the poetry news of the world tonight, but I wanted to let you know that I was still out there, writing and reading, and thinking of all of you.<br />
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<br />Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-85184846136909671492013-05-15T10:13:00.000-07:002013-05-15T10:35:50.157-07:00Lambda Literary Foundation's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT VoicesFolks,<br />
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I was just accepted to LLF's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices in LA this summer. I was also given a partial scholarship to attend. This leaves me to raise another $800 for the cost of attendance. Please stop by my fundraising page and do what you can or just spread the word to your own network of friends and writers.<br />
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I am offering several kickbacks for those who donate, including handwritten thank you notes, broadsides of my poems, and signed copies of my chapbook SLOW DEPTH. <br />
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Thank you in advance! Help me make this dream come true.<br />
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VISIT MY PAGE <a href="http://lambdaliterary.donorpages.com/EmergingWritersRetreat/JoryMickelson/">HERE!</a><br />
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Best,<br />
Jory Mickelson<br />
<br />Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-79652473496216034992013-04-28T15:01:00.002-07:002013-04-28T15:01:42.691-07:00New Work featuring New Wave music and Noir<br />
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I forgot that you can see three new poems of mine over at Ishaan Literary Review.<br />
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"Double Track" features one of my favorite New Wave bands YAZ.<br />
"Connexion" is a tribute to Raymond Chandler's final novel PLAYBACK.<br />
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(Incidentally, this is the cover of the paperback I read that inspired Connexion.)<br />
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<br />Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-48488068188074861512013-04-10T10:32:00.000-07:002013-04-10T10:32:19.348-07:00March Reading List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As many of you know, I keep an annual reading tally. I thought I would post what I read in March so you could all see where my head has been. This year's reading has been off to a slow start compared to last year's 120 books.<br />
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What a terrible sounding headline! Blogging Thaw. It sounds like medical condition or a figure from Scottish myth. "Stay away from the moors, the BloggnTha 'ill get ye."<br />
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But it is spring and this year it means that the ground is either dusted with snow or an ugly viscous mud. Welcome to the long thaw of Northern Idaho. Or wherever you may be reading from.<br />
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This is the start of the long unfreezing of my blog Literary Magpie. If you have been a reader in the past, I say let's continue! If you are new to this blog, well welcome! I will do my best to talk about writing, poetry, inspiration, and what is happening in the writing world every week from here on out. Keep me accountable. Let me know what you would like to hear about next.<br />
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To get you moving, <b><a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/03/23/d-a-powell-a-wonderful-queer-place/">HERE</a></b> is a great interview with the poet D.A. Powell over at Lambda Literary this week! Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048458294916689525.post-61225906893362021722013-03-19T09:13:00.000-07:002013-03-19T09:13:04.951-07:00Catching Up With Depech, er MeI looked at the last entry for this blog and was a shamed by how long I have neglected Literary Magpie. What is the saying about good intentions?<br />
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Very quickly, two of my poems appeared in print this Fall/Winter and I wanted to let you know about them. The first is the poem "Lullaby" which appeared in <i>Boxcar Poetry Review</i>. It won the "Poem of the Issue" award, which was thrilling. <br />
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You can read "Lullaby" online <a href="http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/031/mickelson_jory_001.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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The second poem that appeared in print was "Night Shifts" and the great folks over at <i>The Cossack Literary Review</i>. I am excited to say that they nominated it for Pushcart Prize. I am still waiting to hear back on that.<br />
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You can read "Night Shifts" online <a href="http://www.thecossackreview.com/issue02/contributors/jory_mickelson.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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If you take the time to read my poems, prowl around the websites of these two great literary journals. And if you like what you see, send them an email saying so. Send a donation to support the work or even subscribe.<br />
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I promise to post some real content on this blog within the next week.Literary Magpiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00156795670230687510noreply@blogger.com0