The Beastly Bride interviews and Rattle Summer 2010
More contributor copies are rolling in! Rattle’s Summer 2010 issue, which contains a tribute to humor and an interview with Carl Phillips, also has wonderful poems by my friend Martha Silano and wonderful poets like Diane Wakowski and Toi Derricotte, and me! The poem is another one of my series of advice poems, that I’m not sure why but I keep writing, called “I Forgot to Tell You the Most Important Part.”
Remember that awesome anthology called The Beastly Bride I was telling you about a little bit ago? Well, this nice fellow is doing a series of interviews with its authors and I was lucky enough to be a part of it, so here’s the interview up on SF Signal. I talk about why animal brides are interesting to me and reading material that was probably unsuitable for children that made me the writer I am today.
And, if you haven’t checked out this month’s Verse Daily Web feature, you should! Plus, it’s extra publicity for the very kind folks at qarrtsiluni. Also, if you haven’t updated my web link in your blog rolls yet, please do! It’s now http://myblog.webbish6.com/. I know it’s a big pain, so thanks for your trouble. Also, unlike the folks who run Harriet, I don’t think blogs are dead yet. I like a little discursiveness in my poetry discussions – at least more than the character limit at Twitter allows you – and I don’t think news aggregation is content. So there!
Yes, while everyone else is talking about where they’ll be at AWP, I’m putting the finishing touches on my presentation “From Buffy to Xena: Female Comic Book Superheroes in Women’s Poetry” for Sunday at WonderCon in San Francisco. (Sunday, 12:30-1:30, in the Moscone Center, room 204/206, in case you’re wondering!) It’s not traditionally a poetry venue, perhaps, but I’m hoping it will be fun and some people in the audience will find out that poetry can be, well, something different than love songs and nature odes. Right? And I’ll be wearing my Wonder Woman costume. Just kidding. April Fools!
Anyway, I hope you poets at AWP keep us all up on the gossip going on it the poetry world on your blogs – and I’ll be sure to post if I accidentally run into Kevin Smith or something.
In other news, The Beastly Bride is available today from Amazon and other fine booksellers. This is the anthology that Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling edited on tales of transforming women – one of my favorite subjects – and it happens to have three poems of mine on the old French fairy tale, The White Doe, in it – three poems you can’t find anywhere else! It’s a great gift for any daughters, sisters, or friends who are even remotely interested in mermaids, selkies, or women who change into any manner of trees or animals. It’s mostly fiction, not poetry, and did I mention it’s a really fun collection?
