New work in Artifice 5 and Rhino: the Poetry Forum
By michaellala on Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Purchase Artifice 5 here.
Purchase Rhino 2013 here.
Upcoming readings
By michaellala on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
I’ve got two readings this week:
First, The Mackinac Launch Party - Thursday, April 18 at 8 p.m.
Secondly, Paperbag No. 5 Release - Friday, April 19 at 7 p.m.
Both in Brooklyn; click for more details.
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An interview with Cathy Linh Che
By michaellala on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
A recent interview with Cathy Che of the fantastic Paperbag Journal, where we discuss the news, the war, and my poem “Self-Interrogation (Kill Team),” which appears in Paperbag 5.
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Two poems in The Mackinac
By michaellala on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
I have two new “Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects” in The Mackinac, a new, online poetry magazine.
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New broadside in Singing Saw Press’s Parallax Issue One
By michaellala on Sunday, March 17th, 2013
Singing Saw Press, a new fine arts and poetry publisher, included my Untitled (Evaporite) poem in their first issue of Parallax, a collection of poetry/fine-arts collaborative broadsides.
You can order the full issue (10 broadsides in beautiful packaging) here. It’s one of the most interesting and unique (not to mention gorgeous) art objects I’ve seen in a very long time.
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Four poems in The Brooklyn Rail
By michaellala on Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
From my series “Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects.” You can read them here.
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A poem in Explosion-Proof Magazine
By michaellala on Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
Very happy to have a poem for all things new in Explosion-Proof’s “Last Words” issue, next to work by Mary Ruefle, Matthew Zapruder, Arthur Sze, Dorianne Laux, and tons of others.
Purchase an issue here.
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Fireside Follies in the L Magazine
By michaellala on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Introducing with Fireside Follies co-founder/curator Eric Nelson - Thanks to Sarah Lerner and the crew at the L Magazine for this kind writeup of our most recent “dreamy evening.”
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A long poem in Paperbag Journal
By michaellala on Saturday, December 1st, 2012
I have a long poem in the new issue of Paperbag, which you can read here.
You can start to learn more about the events described in the poem here.
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generations
By michaellala on Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
people who are going to be
in a few years
bottoms of trees
bear a responsibility to something
besides people
if it was only
you and me
sharing the consequences
it would be different
it would be just
generations of men
but
this business of war
these war kinds of things
are erasing those natural
obedient generations
who ignored pride
stood on no hind legs
begged no water
stole no bread
did their own things
and the generations of rice
of coal
of grasshoppers
by their invisibility
denounce us
-Lucille Clifton
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: On her 13th birthday --
I became pregnant very unexpectedly on New Year’s Day, 1998, or more precisely, immediately after the stroke of midnight that night.
We were so poor.
We didn’t have insurance.
We had maybe $50 to our names at conception.
We had something like $750 a month of income.
I entered the social…
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Interview in Brooklyn Magazine
By michaellala on Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Brooklyn Magazine included Eric Nelson and I in their “Brooklyn Lit Impresarios” feature for our work with Fireside Follies. Read here.
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New poems in the DIAGRAM
By michaellala on Friday, August 31st, 2012
Hey, hey. I’ve got two new ones from Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects in the DIAGRAM, one of my favorite online journals out there.
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