Hello!

 Hello!

This is a new post in 2024. 

Love,
Dorothea

Thank you for visiting, and Tumblr

Hello!

Thank you for visiting this website!

I don't use this blog that much anymore. If you want to see what I am up to lately, please visit my tumblr.

Yours in poetry,
Dorothea Lasky

Douglas A. Martin Thunderbird poems

Here are four Thunderbird poems written by Douglas A. Martin below.

         Thunderbird #1

vie lets I could verge you

vices I could kiss

blue fullness of fired pointed

blue raving

blue clear linden in you blue in fired

blue car our first car

green issue shakes out green rugging

green bulb green eye green

yellow honey of the knot

yellow tail not the rumble

orange flowers in the grove

orange sun do I dare

red light hangs in the neighbors window

red paper tonguing the sun

red bird endlessly flying

red and then full and material

red bell heads

         Thunderbird #2

The vision of a tall-masted ship, at sail on the ocean, came to

His first time at sea

Us awake at night, then would

Not a husband

Dire emergency

Errand eased a little, and the surroundings became more gracious

Rev river ruin run rest ringing residents

but where to go?

in the enter fearing moving things

regret that at the present time I can not restore the funds that are owed

diffidence about.

Thunderbird #3

you rose

torch red

ignite a fence of fair

when I look, I don’t lie lick

I don’t a pert reliance

nestle down into this plushness

rose beige recline hair

underneath weeping willow,

the worn leather care

I care so much about the seams

seem the sown is.

          Thunderbird #4

It’s not an

ampersand,

Lust.

It need not be

a sad sun hand

either, muss

it

I want to fold

these

feathered lines

for you in a way to

make them us.

Hello! For more current information and blogging, please visit www.birdinsnow.com, my Twitter, or my Tumblr. Thank you for visiting! Dorothea Lasky

Upcoming Summer Readings

June 4, con/crescent press Reading, Fergie's Pub, Phila., PA, 7:30 p.m. More info here.

June 7, White Swallow Reading Series, 29 Cornelia St., NY, NY, 6 p.m. More info here.

June 24, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Amherst, MA, 7:30 p.m. More info here.

August 12, Wilde Boys: a queer poetry salon, New York, NY, 7:30 p.m. More info here.

For all other news, please visit my main website: www.birdinsnow.com.

Upcoming Spring Readings

March 9, Southern Writers Reading Series, 7:30 pm. More info here.

March 10, Reading for Blake Butler's new book There is No Year, 7 pm. More info here.

March 27, Birthday Reading, 6 pm: Brooklyn, Unnameable Books, w/ Lonely Christopher, Emily Pettit, and Ben Fama

April 1, Bernadette Mayer symposium. Details here.

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 here and here.

April 14, Metrorhythm Reading Series: http://metrorhythm.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/dorothea-lasky-to-read-in-april/

April 19, Reading with Matthew Rohrer, 7 pm: Community Bookstore

April 26, Gurlesque Reading, 6 pm: ACA Gallery

May 2, KGB Bar Reading with Star Black and David Yezzi, 7 pm. More info here.

May 8, Jubilant Thicket with Stan Mir and William McGuire, 5 pm. Walking Fish Theatre, Phila.,PA. More info HERE.

May 18, Projection Reading Series: more information

May 26, Reading at Drexel University, 11 am and then Gurlesque reading at 6pm at the Athenaeum.

For all other news, please visit my main website: www.birdinsnow.com.

Bird in Snow

Hello!

I could care less about Lindsay Lohan going to jail, sorry about that.

However, I do care about the heatwave.

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, here it is.

Please visit it! The three redbirds on it will be happy if you do.

Good-bye!

Two things

Two new poems at The Awl: DL at The Awl

Philadelphia reading at Mostly Books (529 Bainbridge) at 8 p.m. tonight with Ben Fama and Kevin Varrone. Hope to see you there!

notnostrums

I am so excited to be included in the fourth issue of notnostrums.

Here are my poems in the issue.

Here is the entire issue.

Good-bye.

Poetry is Not a Project and Interview

Hello

My new chapbook Poetry is Not a Project is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. More information HERE.

Read an interview I did with Joshua Bolton on Wolf in a Field here.

Thank you

Bird in Snow site

Hello!

Wanted you to know: I have another blog. It is www.birdinsnow.com.

Please visit it whenever you feel like it. I will be updating it semi-regularly in the following months.

To leave you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5fEfaXBl_c
(I hate the drugs part of that video, but it is the only video I can find of that song.)

Live reading tonight

Hello!

I will be reading live tonight on HTMLgiant.

Announcement and link here.

Hope to see you there!

How I feel

This is how I feel right now.

Updated Reading Schedule Blog

I am going to start to updating my reading schedule blog again, in case anyone wanted to see me read sometime.

Here is a list of readings I am doing this month.

Poem in this week's New Yorker magazine

Hello!

Please check out my poem in this week's New Yorker magazine: Tornado


Additional important information:

Looks like some form of me near the eye of the storm.

Tornado facts


Also, this what the poem is about.


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If you like my poem, please buy my new book Black Life.

Poetry Society of America Desert Island Discs

If you ever wanted to know what I would like to listen to if stranded on a deserted island, you may now know:

My Deserted Island Disc Selections

Arts Ed Issue of Urban Ed Journal

Hello! Please check out the special Arts Ed issue of the Urban Education Journal:

http://www.urbanedjournal.org/

Lightful Press Book Release Party

Lightful Press is having a Book Release Party this week. If you are in the area, please attend. Here is their announcement:

Book Release Party

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.

Melville House Books is located at 145 Plymouth Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn, near the York Street stop on the F train.

www.lightfulpress.com
http://latr.tumblr.com/

Find out more here.

Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear from Gabe Askew on Vimeo.

Eric Baus feature

Check out this feature on Eric Baus.

Also, check out this interview in Jacket magazine between Eric Baus and Cynthia Arrieu-King.