tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308143152024-02-07T16:29:24.143-08:00Dorothea LaskyDorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.comBlogger468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-23994595615680782302013-08-28T05:15:00.004-07:002013-08-28T05:15:50.481-07:00Thank you for visiting, and TumblrHello!<br />
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Dorothea LaskyDorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-9825972599885308672012-11-09T07:15:00.002-08:002012-11-09T07:22:46.393-08:00Douglas A. Martin Thunderbird poems<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b> Thunderbird #1<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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vie lets I could verge you<o:p></o:p></div>
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vices I could kiss<o:p></o:p></div>
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blue fullness of fired pointed<o:p></o:p></div>
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blue raving<o:p></o:p></div>
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blue clear linden in you blue in fired<o:p></o:p></div>
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blue car our first car<o:p></o:p></div>
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green bulb green eye green<o:p></o:p></div>
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yellow honey of the knot<o:p></o:p></div>
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yellow tail not the rumble<o:p></o:p></div>
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orange flowers in the grove<o:p></o:p></div>
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orange sun do I dare<o:p></o:p></div>
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red light hangs in the neighbors window<o:p></o:p></div>
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red paper tonguing the sun <o:p></o:p></div>
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red bird endlessly flying <o:p></o:p></div>
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red and then full and material<o:p></o:p></div>
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red bell heads <o:p></o:p><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-26345053739738687112012-04-24T10:06:00.000-07:002012-04-24T10:40:59.560-07:00Hello!
For more current information and blogging, please visit <a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com">www.birdinsnow.com,</a> my <a href="http://twitter.com/dorothealasky">Twitter</a>, or my <a href="http://dorothealasky.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a>.
Thank you for visiting!
Dorothea LaskyDorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-52372684457838750962011-05-30T09:40:00.000-07:002011-05-30T09:52:03.870-07:00Upcoming Summer ReadingsJune 4, con/crescent press Reading, Fergie's Pub, Phila., PA, 7:30 p.m. More info <a href="http://www.concrescentpress.org/2011/05/27/cc-reading-005-ariana-reines-dorothea-lasky-marion-bell/">here.</a><br /><br />June 7, White Swallow Reading Series, 29 Cornelia St., NY, NY, 6 p.m. More info <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186343114747658">here.</a><br /><br />June 24, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA, 7:30 p.m. More info <a href="http://www.umass.edu/juniperinstitute/">here. </a><br /><br />August 12, Wilde Boys: a queer poetry salon, New York, NY, 7:30 p.m. More info <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wilde-Boys-a-queer-poetry-salon/309467683629">here. </a><br /><br />For all other news, please visit my main website: <a href="www.birdinsnow.com">www.birdinsnow.com.</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-23072080110054167812011-02-28T22:00:00.001-08:002011-05-03T17:06:40.587-07:00Upcoming Spring ReadingsMarch 9, Southern Writers Reading Series, 7:30 pm. More info <a href="http://southernwritersny.wordpress.com/">here</a>.<br /><br />March 10, Reading for Blake Butler's new book There is No Year, 7 pm. More info <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186448248059127">here</a>.<br /><br />March 27, Birthday Reading, 6 pm: Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, w/ Lonely Christopher, Emily Pettit, and Ben Fama<br /><br />April 1, Bernadette Mayer symposium. Details <a href="http://english.buffalo.edu/mayersymposium/">here.</a> <br /><br />April 12, Ugly Duckling Presse Periodically Speaking (CLMP) event, 6 pm, New York Public Library main branch (Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Details <a href="http://www.nypl.org/periodically-speaking/multimedia">here</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Periodically-Speaking-at-the-New-York-Public-Library/145521992060?ref=ts">here.</a><br /><br />April 14, Metrorhythm Reading Series: <a href="http://metrorhythm.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/dorothea-lasky-to-read-in-april/">http://metrorhythm.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/dorothea-lasky-to-read-in-april/</a><br /><br />April 19, Reading with Matthew Rohrer, 7 pm: <a href="http://communitybookstore.net/">Community Bookstore</a><br /><br />April 26, Gurlesque Reading, 6 pm: <a href="http://www.acagalleries.com/">ACA Gallery</a><br /><br />May 2, KGB Bar Reading with Star Black and David Yezzi, 7 pm. More info <a href="http://kgbbar.com/calendar/2011/05/">here.</a><br /><br />May 8, Jubilant Thicket with Stan Mir and William McGuire, 5 pm. Walking Fish Theatre, Phila.,PA. More info <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159791307418177">HERE.</a><br /><br />May 18, Projection Reading Series: <a href="http://projectionreading.blogspot.com/2011/02/future-projection-518-with-david.html">more information</a><br /><br />May 26, Reading at Drexel University, 11 am and then Gurlesque reading at 6pm at the <a href="http://www.philaathenaeum.org/">Athenaeum.</a><br /><br />For all other news, please visit my main website: <a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com">www.birdinsnow.com</a>.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-48639465033125239902010-07-06T20:12:00.001-07:002010-07-06T20:16:19.847-07:00Bird in SnowHello!<br /><br />I could care less about Lindsay Lohan going to jail, sorry about that.<br /><br />However, I do care about the heatwave.<br /><br />Ok, ok, here's why I am writing this post: I think I am going to start blogging more at my old site, Bird in Snow. Here you go, <a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com/">here it is.</a><br /><br />Please visit it! The three redbirds on it will be happy if you do.<br /><br />Good-bye!Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-63654417020512842852010-05-28T06:45:00.000-07:002010-05-28T06:48:40.130-07:00Two thingsTwo new poems at The Awl: <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/the-poetry-section-dorothea-lasky">DL at The Awl</a><br /><br />Philadelphia reading at Mostly Books (529 Bainbridge) at 8 p.m. tonight with Ben Fama and Kevin Varrone. Hope to see you there!Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-68086301090008476502010-04-12T16:53:00.000-07:002010-04-12T16:54:51.966-07:00notnostrumsI am so excited to be included in the fourth issue of notnostrums. <br /><br /><a href="http://notnostrums.com/iss4/Lasky.html">Here</a> are my poems in the issue.<br /><br /><a href="http://notnostrums.com/iss4/tableofcontents.html">Here</a> is the entire issue.<br /><br />Good-bye.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-17646742243767453352010-04-06T08:35:00.000-07:002010-04-06T08:41:24.920-07:00Poetry is Not a Project and InterviewHello<br /><br />My new chapbook Poetry is Not a Project is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. More information <a href="http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=98">HERE.</a><br /><br />Read an interview I did with Joshua Bolton on Wolf in a Field <a href="http://wolfinafield.blogspot.com/2010/04/spirit-of-love-is-how-i-see-god.html">here.</a><br /><br />Thank youDorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-47725875909302426122010-03-30T19:38:00.000-07:002010-03-30T20:37:53.209-07:00Bird in Snow siteHello!<br /><br />Wanted you to know: I have another blog. It is <a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com">www.birdinsnow.com.</a><br /><br />Please visit it whenever you feel like it. I will be updating it semi-regularly in the following months.<br /><br />To leave you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5fEfaXBl_c<br />(I hate the drugs part of that video, but it is the only video I can find of that song.)Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-21840212663461603472010-03-03T12:14:00.001-08:002010-03-03T12:15:06.752-08:00Live reading tonightHello!<br /><br />I will be reading live tonight on HTMLgiant.<br /><br />Announcement and link <a href="http://htmlgiant.com/web-hype/live-giants-2-tomorrow-9-eastern-w-dorothea-lasky/">here.</a><br /><br />Hope to see you there!Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-58606602366089845422010-02-22T03:06:00.001-08:002010-02-22T03:06:34.620-08:00How I feel<a href="http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/2/25/William_blake-song_of_los.jpeg">This</a> is how I feel right now.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-80666502655939153202010-02-17T15:21:00.000-08:002010-02-17T15:23:43.844-08:00Updated Reading Schedule BlogI am going to start to updating my reading schedule blog again, in case anyone wanted to see me read sometime.<br /><br />Here is a <a href="http://dorothealaskyreadings.blogspot.com/2010/02/february-2010-readings.html">list of readings</a> I am doing this month.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-72662103326263356492010-02-08T06:03:00.002-08:002010-02-08T06:15:05.351-08:00Poem in this week's New Yorker magazineHello!<br /><br />Please check out my poem in this week's New Yorker magazine: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/02/15/100215po_poem_lasky">Tornado</a><br /><br /><br />Additional important information:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rondianetyler.com/images/tornado_pic.jpg">Looks like some form of me near the eye of the storm.<br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/safety/tornadoguide.html">Tornado facts<br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lancelhoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tornado.jpg">Also, this what the poem is about.</a><br /><br /><br />****<br /><br />If you like my poem, please buy my new book <a href="http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/80-black-life">Black Life.</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-11367220566654585892009-12-08T17:21:00.000-08:002009-12-08T17:22:44.717-08:00Poetry Society of America Desert Island DiscsIf you ever wanted to know what I would like to listen to if stranded on a deserted island, you may now know:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/desert_island/desert_island_discs_dorthea_lask/">My Deserted Island Disc Selections</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-74622786538830949542009-12-02T20:57:00.000-08:002009-12-02T20:58:31.766-08:00Arts Ed Issue of Urban Ed JournalHello! Please check out the special Arts Ed issue of the Urban Education Journal:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.urbanedjournal.org/">http://www.urbanedjournal.org/</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-73155936818734604252009-11-03T15:00:00.000-08:002009-11-03T15:03:11.039-08:00Lightful Press Book Release PartyLightful Press is having a Book Release Party this week. If you are in the area, please attend. Here is their announcement:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Book Release Party</span><br /> <br />Announcing a book party and reading hosted by LATR Editions and Lightful Press at Melville House Books in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Nov. 4th, at 7pm. Poets Heather Green and Ernest Hilbert will read from their new poetry chapbooks from LATR Editions. Lightful Press will celebrating the publication of Play by poet Liz Waldner with a theatrical reading from the book. Books by all the authors will be available for sale. Free beer and wine will be served.<br /> <br />Melville House Books is located at 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn, near the York Street stop on the F train.<br /> <br />www.lightfulpress.com<br />http://latr.tumblr.com/<br /><br />Find out more <a href="http://lightfulpress.com/index.php?/about-this-site/news/">here.</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-81868775457914551822009-09-10T01:01:00.000-07:002009-09-10T01:02:00.311-07:00<object width="400" height="220"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5904993&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5904993&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="220"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/5904993">Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1904617">Gabe Askew</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-22921598468308163412009-07-09T11:57:00.001-07:002009-07-09T12:34:05.857-07:00Eric Baus featureCheck out this <a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2009/07/12-or-20-questions-with-eric-baus.html">feature</a> on Eric Baus.<br /><br />Also, check out <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/37/iv-baus-ivb-king.shtml">this interview</a> in Jacket magazine between Eric Baus and Cynthia Arrieu-King.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtjtm95ZGQH_1sf-u7ceyXTuuEaTCPTt9y5cgTefFmWpfk30sSrvh_VCr7XR43-gg7gC7NlL6T-nKEKHjEEpaTys7zkeoVHS8hmlMsETrBf9wuhTqkGpQQo-qu52DqOhiayhaTUQ/s1600-h/Photo+250.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtjtm95ZGQH_1sf-u7ceyXTuuEaTCPTt9y5cgTefFmWpfk30sSrvh_VCr7XR43-gg7gC7NlL6T-nKEKHjEEpaTys7zkeoVHS8hmlMsETrBf9wuhTqkGpQQo-qu52DqOhiayhaTUQ/s320/Photo+250.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356545867717167266" /></a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-21103898850516835292009-07-03T18:15:00.000-07:002009-07-03T18:19:59.065-07:00Peace on A readings are now on PennSoundCheck out Thom Donovan's Peace on A reading series recordings now on <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Peace-on-A.php">PennSound.</a><br /><br />Here are some beautiful readings by <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Donovan.php">Thom Donovan on PennSound.<br /></a><br />Here is my <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lasky.php">PennSound page</a> in case you'd like to go there.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-90165574933539674152009-07-01T07:24:00.001-07:002009-07-01T07:35:08.918-07:00CUE JournalThe spectacular journal CUE is now online. I think it looks divinely beautiful. Many cheers to <a href="http://activedriveway-mth.blogspot.com/">Mark Horosky</a> and <a href="http://morganlucasschuldt.blogspot.com/">Morgan Lucas Schuldt.</a><br /><br />The main page is <a href="http://www.cuejournal.com/">here.</a><br /><br />The first issue is <a href="http://www.cuejournal.com/content.html">here,</a> where you can find poems and stories by moi and others.<br /><br />One of the poems on there is called "The Poetry that is going to matter after you are dead." I once read that poem on <a href="http://www.weirddeer.com/">Weird Deer</a>. This recording can be found <a href="http://weirddeermedia.com/2008/02/the-poetry-that-is-going-to-matter-after-you-are-dead-by-dorothea-lasky/">here.</a> The beautiful drawing you see featured with the recording is by <a href="http://www.doodleeveryday.blogspot.com/">Camilla Schofield.</a><br /><br />Over and out.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-58487859032169982852009-05-28T18:38:00.000-07:002009-05-28T18:40:04.311-07:00"Little Cloud" by The Incredible String Band and I am reading tomorrow nightHow sweet to be a cloud, floating in the blue.<br /><br />Lying awake, late the other night<br />Heard above me a trembling,<br />I looked up, it was a little cloud,<br />From which a gold string was dangling;<br />You know, I gave the string a little pull,<br />Just to see what was on the other end.<br />Just then a voice came down to me, says,<br />"Hey, now, don't you want to be my friend,<br /><br />And float with me to distant lands,<br />wondrous and fair;<br />Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair?<br />You see I'm just a happy little cloud,<br />I laugh and float and sing my song,<br />But the other clouds don't like me none.<br />They say I am behaving very wrong.<br />You see a cloud's supposed to be sad,<br />To cry and weep and tear its hair and all,<br />And don't matter how hard I try,<br />I can't get the first little tear to fall."<br /><br />And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;<br />Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;<br /><br />I said, "Hey, I like you little cloud,<br />You are a nice little fellow, yes."<br />"You making some, kind of a joke?", said the cloud,<br />"Now can't you see I'm wearing such a pretty dress?<br />You see I am the prettiest little chick cloud<br />That you'd find anywhere up above.<br />I just dropped in on you awhile<br />To see if you could give me some kind of love."<br /><br />And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;<br />Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair;<br /><br />Just then the chief cloud come into view<br />And says, "Hey, girl, now what you think you're doing there?<br />I told you so many times before<br />You just don't seem at all to care.<br />You know you should be floating up above, now<br />Don't let me catch you down here again."<br /><br />And as my cloud pulled out of view,<br />There come failing down a gentle shower of rain.<br />Happy rain come failing down,<br />Red, green, blue and golden.<br />And every drop, as it fell, it smiled<br />And, throwing back its head, began singing,<br /><br />"Oh float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;<br />Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair."<br /><br /><br />Information about my reading tomorrow night:<br /><a href="http://poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/7808"><br />THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE IT RIGHT</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-64457878363168268602009-05-17T13:28:00.000-07:002009-05-17T13:29:48.377-07:00Reading tomorrow, 5/18Hi! I'm reading tomorrow night in celebration of the magazine 12th Street.<br /><br />Here is the information:<br /><br />Celebrate the publication of 12th Street, a literary magazine edited and published by students in The New School Writing and Democracy Program Conversation Group<br /><br />Luis Jaramillo hosts an evening with Mark Bibbins, Douglas A. Martin, Sigrid Nunez, Dorothea Lasky & students.<br /><br />Monday May 18, 2009 7:00 PM<br /><br />Union Square Barnes and Noble<br />33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-253-0810Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-17150323979914455512009-05-08T06:49:00.000-07:002009-05-08T06:52:24.204-07:00Eric Baus and Ish Klein read in Philly THIS SATURDAY NIGHTHere is the Chapter and Verse announcement for Eric Baus and Ish Klein's reading on Saturday. Their books are two of my favorite books that have come out this year:<br /><br />Hello Everybody,<br /><br />This Saturday, May 9th at 8:00pm<br />at Chapterhouse Cafe<br />620 S. 9th St<br /><br />Come listen to poetry by<br /><br />Eric Baus & Ish Klein<br /><br />For more info: http://chapterhousereadings.blogspot.com/<br /> http://www.myspace.com/chapterhouse<br /><br />See you soon,<br />Ryan<br /><br />************************************************************<br />Bios:<br /><br />Ish Klein is a self-taught film and puppet maker who also writes<br />poems. She is an alumna of Columbia University and the Iowa Writer's<br />Workshop for Poetry. In 2005, she was awarded the National Endowment<br />of the Arts Digital Filmmaker Residency. Her poems have been published<br />in Bridge,The Canary, Gare du Nord, and more recently in Hat magazine,<br />X-connect, Big Bridge, Spork and Gut Cult. Her new book, UNION!, is<br />just out from Canarium Press.<br /><br />Eric Baus was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1975. His publications<br />include Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), The To Sound (Verse Press,<br />2004; Winner of the 2002 Verse Press, selected by Forrest Gander), and<br />the chapbooks The Space Between Magnets (Diaeresis), A Swarm In The<br />Aperture (Margin to Margin), and Something Else The Music Was<br />(Braincase Press). He edits Minus House chapbooks, and currently lives<br />in Denver.<br /><br /><br /><br />****Also, if you'd like to take a sneak peak at Eric Baus and Ish Klein reading, check out <a href="http://www.birdinsnow.com/2008/05/closet-leg-tiny-tour/">this.</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30814315.post-84825465307670989342009-05-01T12:03:00.001-07:002009-05-01T12:04:00.089-07:00Reading at the Poetry Project next Monday, 5/4I am reading at the Poetry Project this upcoming Monday, 5/4. <br /><br />More information can be found <a href="http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/kristin-palm-dorothea-lasky.html">here.</a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0