Recommendations for Geek-Flavored Poetry Books and Useful Links

Have been in a whirlwind of work for my can’t-yet-announce-it-officially new job! It’s a good thing with had such grey cold drizzly weather, it helps me stay inside and organize and submit work and write e-mails.

One thing I’m looking at is a project for a community reading the same book of poetry together. My idea is to have the book appeal to the folks in my community – namely, a huge number of techies – so I’m looking for recommendations for recent “Geek-flavored” poetry books – leaning to the “accessible” side of the scale, something non-poets would enjoy as well as poets – with connections to science, math, comic books, sci-fi, etc…I’ve already decided on Kathleen Flenniken’s Plume and Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars, but want more!
Post your suggestions in the comments, please!

I’ve also got some useful links today.

For those stressing about sending out or marketing their poetry books, here are interviews with poets about the journey to publishing their first books:
http://www.kickingwind.com/interviews.html

Presses with open readings instead of contests:
http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/presses-with-open-readings-for-full-length-poetry-manuscripts/

A wonderful post from Marisa Crawford on the importance of creating a creative writing community for teen girls:
http://herkind.org/articles/on-my-mind/girl-talk-on-valuing-teen-girl-voices-creating-community

Kelli Agodon gives poets some marketing advice:
http://ofkells.blogspot.com/2011/06/marketing-for-poets-writers-who-prefer.html

A new poem from me up at the new Blue Lyra Review (with bonus childhood photo:)
http://bluelyrareview.com/category/current-issue/

Happy 4th of July! Go and try my grilled watermelon salsa out for tomorrow’s cookout, too! We are going to try out the house’s new grill for the first time, as long as we have some sunshine…