Location: New York City
What are you working on right now?
2 poetry collections; book of prose writing.
Did you publish a book this year? If so, what was it?
Yes, Femme du Monde (Tia Chuca Press)
Did you publish anything online this year?
www.poetryfoundation.org/dispatches
What's the best book you read this year?
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silbur; Eroison's Pull by Maureen Owen; The Collected Poems of Lynda Hull
Who was the best new writer you read this year?
Matt Shenoda, Frank X. Black, Matthew Zapruder; Elizabeth Frost; Nikki Finney
What was the best literary event you attended this year? And why?
The Cave Canem Faculty Reading at CUNY in Oct.
What was the most important literary news this year?
That the Democrats won back the Congress.
What do you value most about your Membership to PEN?
That is connects art and citizenship in a very real way. that First Amendment and anti-censorship activism continues despite the deeply censorious character of the American Goverment and our allies.
For how long have you been a Member of PEN?
1998 or 1999.
What literary topics would you would like to see discussed by PEN Members in an online forum?
More about the "non" career aspects of our literary lives. It seems like the focus is still too much on how to get ahead which most people will if they want to and not about how our work connects with each other and the outside world other than via the marketplace. Hey I am a poet so I own up to my naïveté.
Any other news?
I have a commission by Mabou Mines for Song for New York, which will premiere in Summer 2007; a chapbook of new poems will be out from Belladonna in March 2007.
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