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Coping with Cooper Wilhelm, Author of ‘Dumbheart/Stupidface’

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by editor Joanna C. Valente


Cooper Wilhelm is the author of his debut book “Dumbheart/Stupidface” which was released November 13, 2017 from CCM. Of his book, Bijan Stephen said,“Good love stories aren’t interesting to read about. Thankfully, Dumbheart / Stupidface provides a wonderful reprieve; Wilhelm writes the brutal truths of what it means to love someone with a detached ferocity generally observed in nature, as when a tiger devours a deer. And it is as exciting to watch.”

Luckily, he talked to me about his favorite gif, meal, and apocalypse plans:

Describe your favorite meal. 

Some kind of roasted or barbecued meat. I’m thinking of doing a double roast when I turn 30 where we’ll roast meats and then my friends will say mean things about me. Last year some friends slowroasted a porkshoulder in this small apartment. It was winter and the kitchen and the living room were one continuous swish blanketed richly in oven heat. We’d meant to cut the shoulder up and serve it on plates like civilized aristocrats but it never made it off the cutting board. A little shy picking and then there was frenzy. It was an iridescent goddamned joy.

What music do often you write to, if at all? 

I like music a lot so I usually can’t write with it on. The best way for me to write is by doing it as a secret when I’m supposed to be doing something else.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

Robert Hass’s Sun Under Woods.

An anthology of haikus that Stephen Addiss edited.

And Liber Null made so much sense when I picked it up. It felt like skeins saying thoughts I’d had back to me.

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?

It’s probably the painting Grace Linderholm (who is taking commissions by the bye) did for my book DUMBHEART/STUPIDFACE. It’s based on Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That play has felt talismanic to me for a long time and I love that moment when they discover Bottom has the head of an ass and say “Bless you, Bottom, you are translated!”

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you. 

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

The problem is that all the apocalypses are rolling in at once. Honestly it feels like what will happen is that the earth will just quit. No more food will grow, no more drinkable water will reveal itself. There will be a generation of suffering and then silence.

But that’s not how I want to go out. I’d prefer something sudden and preceded by maniacal laughter. Maybe crashing a zeppelin in a way that inconveniences people I hate.

If you could only watch three films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

I suspect Evil Dead 2 will never get old. Its strangeness has lingered for years and is so essential it feels like it will keep flashing in revelation like a prism spinning on a string. The Shape of Water gave me hope and I think that means I could watch it forever. Also Exiled feels like 3 movies tied together against their will and I love it.

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

I tend to tweet a lot about poetry and socialism and witchcraft but not in a way that really makes them go together. There’s a lot of overlap in those communities, but I get the sense people come for the poetry, tolerate the occultism, and bail because of the politics. Maybe if I were more discreet about things that aren’t poetry I’d have more of a following but I don’t want to be dishonest by omission.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

Pigs, easily. They’re astoundingly human in both good and bad ways. The only animal besides us that can be naked.

What do you carry with you at all times?

Right now it’s a little red notebook I’ve been keeping to mark coincidences and synchronicities and such since I started doing saintcraft. I’m a little self-conscious about it but I wanted to be serious and scientific about trying to communicate with deities and the dead.


Cooper B. Wilhelm is a poet, researcher, and occultist living in NYC. He is from Maine. He’s published stuff with people. Into the Dark is a radio show he did about witchcraft (all the episodes are still available as podcasts). PoetryAndStrangers is a thing he does where he writes poems on postcards and then mails them to strangers he looks up in phonebooks.

 

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Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.

Coping with Cooper Wilhelm, Author of ‘Dumbheart/Stupidface’ was last modified: January 8th, 2018 by ccm
January 8, 2018
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Listen to Bud Smith Read an Excerpt of ‘Work’

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Bud Smith is the author of his new book and memoir “Work,” which will be released September 18, 2017 from CCM. Besides that, however, Smith is the author of numerous books, including “Dust Bunny City,” a collaboration with Rae Buleri, and the publisher of Unknown Press. Check out this interview we did with him here.

Below, you can listen to Bud read an excerpt from his book, Work:

BUD SMITH is the author of Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press) and F-250 (Piscataway House). He works heavy construction and lives in New Jersey.

 

 

Listen to Bud Smith Read an Excerpt of ‘Work’ was last modified: August 30th, 2017 by ccm
August 30, 2017
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Coping with Bud Smith, Author of ‘Work’

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Bud Smith is the author of his new book and memoir “Work,” which will be released September 18, 2017 from CCM. Besides that, however, Smith is the author of numerous books, including “Dust Bunny City,” a collaboration with Rae Buleri, and the publisher of Unknown Press.

Of his book, Scott McClanahan said, “Bud Smith is one of the only writers I don’t mind hanging out with in real life. I’ve seen Bud Smith sober and I’ve seen Bud Smith drunk. He’s great either way.”

Luckily, he talked to me about his favorite gif, meal, and apocalypse plans:

Describe your favorite meal.

I get the falafel platter usually, it’s a couple bucks. Ibby’s Falafel on Grove Street in Jersey City. They didn’t have mediterranean food where I grew up, down in the suburbs. We used to just eat fish sticks. My dad used to burn them all the time in the oven. I don’t think city kids had to grow up eating burnt fish sticks. They got to eat falafel platters. Stuff off a halal cart. Sushi. Bodega snacks. Pizza from a window hanging over the street.

What music do often you write to, if at all? 

Nothing really. My apartment is really loud. There’s a lot of noise from the cars thundering down Kennedy Blvd. But I like that. I can hear their radios when they get stuck at the light. We live on the corner. So sometimes there’s multiple radios playing multiple songs. I also like when someone gets a phone call and the song stops and the ringing telephone plays through their stereo because of bluetooth. If I’m writing at work, I don’t listen to music there either. It’s so loud there, too. Split your head right open for ya.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

Three novels I’ve reread a bunch of times are Canary Row by John Steinbeck, In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan, and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I identify as a weird old white dead guy.

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?

I bought an abstract painting from Illeen Kaplan Maxwell because it makes no sense to me but its endlessly pretty, just like I want my life to be. It’s hanging on my living room wall and I look at it all the time. It’s over my left shoulder right now and it makes me irrationally happy.

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you.

I usually work out with my red panda on the rings, so this one:

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

The apocalypse would be if you couldn’t block anybody on social media. Or even worse, if you could pretend to still be friends but you couldn’t mute them, or unfollow them. I’d want to die choking to death on the falafel platter from Ibby’s Falafel on Grove Street in Jersey City, while unfollowing/muting every single person I still follow on social media.

If you could only watch three films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel. My Cousin Vinny with Marissa Tomei and Joe Pesci. Game of Thrones – it’ll basically be a 75+ hour movie when it’s all done. It’s got everything: naked ladies, naked guys, naked dragons, naked dire wolves, naked crows, even some naked horses.

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

Unfollowing/muting everybody I’m still friends with while choking to death. Also, blocking some people.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

My red panda that I work out with every morning on our gymnastic rings. He’s a lot of fun and I don’t have to feed him because he just eats the cockroaches that are wandering around our apartment.

What do you carry with you at all times? 

Kohl’s cash. 24/7/365


BUD SMITH is the author of Dust Bunny City (Disorder Press) and F-250 (Piscataway House). He works heavy construction and lives in New Jersey.

 

 

 

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Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.

Coping with Bud Smith, Author of ‘Work’ was last modified: August 15th, 2017 by ccm
August 15, 2017
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#CopingWith: 13 Poems in Persona

Persona is one of my favorite techniques and crafts to work with in writing. Here are 13 poems that are written through persona:

1. Patricia Smith – “Skinhead”
2. Leah Umansky – “Khaleesi Says”
3. Linda Bierds – “The Ghost Trio”
4. John Berryman – “Dream Song 29”
5. James Tate – “The Motorcyclists”
6. Kevin Young – “Reward”
7. Margaret Atwood – “Pig Song”
8. Hannah Kucharzak – “Anxious Diva”
9. Richard Brautigan – “Trout Fishing in America”
10. Cornelius Eady – “Nina’s Blues”
11. A. Van Jordan – “From”
12. C.D. Wright – “One Big Self (excerpt)”
13. Louise Gluck – “Vespers”


Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos,  and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.

#CopingWith: 13 Poems in Persona was last modified: August 7th, 2017 by ccm
August 7, 2017
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Coping with Jacklyn Janeksela, Author of ‘fitting a witch//hexing the stitch’

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Jacklyn Janeksela is the author of her book “fitting a witch//hexing the stitch,” was released in June 2017 (The Operating System). Besides that, however, Janeksela was also a contributor in CCM’s anthology “A Shadow Map.”

Of her book, Juliet Escoria said, “Like all good poetry, Jacklyn Janeksela’s poetry is a straddler – occupying the future and the past, the earthly world of pigtails and red dresses as well as the other world of the devil and astral plane. If you read this book, you will become a straddler too, a person who is both enchanted and possessed.”

"Like all good poetry, Jacklyn Janeksela’s poetry is a straddler – occupying the future and the past, the earthly world of pigtails and red dresses as well as the other world of the devil and astral plane. If you read this book, you will become a straddler too, a person who is both enchanted and possessed."

Luckily, she talked to me about her favorite gif, meal, and apocalypse plans:

Describe your favorite meal.

My own heart on a plate.

What music do often you write to, if at all?

I require silence or whatever sound nature gives me for the day.

In between, you can catch me floating on Bosnian Rainbows or diving into Swans. Anything that’s not fucking around with sound or art, voice & vulnerability —experimental mayhem. I melt over Motorama and Marilyn Manson; Small Depo, Soft Kill, SQÜRL. Plus stuff like LA Witch, Dead Rabbits, Tropic of Cancer, Chelsea Wolfe, The Ghost Ease, Froth, Blood Orange, Savages, Mi Pequeña Muerte, & Mary Bell. Of course, Tori Amos & The Cure are always present –like always & forever in a seriously obsessed can’t-get-you-outta-my-mind-or-heart kinda way. I have a band –The Velblouds, so I listen to myself + one, often.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

The Fear of Flying, Confessions of an Opium Eater, Steppenwolfe/Damien/Siddhartha (tied for 3rd).

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?

One? Jesus, I see one per day that expresses who I am or what I feel. I refuse to pick just one, but I will say that Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Aleksandra Waliszewska, Seigfried Zademack, & Frances Bacon are of the same soul energy & vibration.

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you.

& if you were curious, here are my nights:

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

The apocalypse is an invention to frighten us; and it serves its purpose. It looks like whatever I want it to look like and is equal to how I envision self & life. I don’t want to die so I won’t. And death is but a word, a concept; and I’m friends with death, we’re cool like that. But should I have to choose a way to go, for example because of an interview, I’d say during orgasm due the proximity of death.

If you could only watch three films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

Last Lovers Left Alive, Jules et Jim, and Django/Santa Sangre/Edward Scissorhands (tied for 3rd).

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

Mission: support art, humans, and awakening. But I try to be more focused on my terrestrial persona/role because the internet will die one day; I don’t want to lose touch with myself too much and forget how to be a human.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

Cats because they are mediums; so are rabbits. But one day I will have a goat on a farm somewhere far away. All animals are gods, that’s why I don’t eat them.

What do you carry with you at all times?

Pen, paper, magic, water, stones.


jacklyn janeksela is a wolf and a raven, a cluster of stars, &  a direct descent of the divine feminine.  jacklyn janeksela can be found @ Thought Catalog, Luna Magazine, Talking Book, Three Point Press, DumDum Magazine, Visceral Brooklyn, Anti-Heroin Chic, Public Pool, Reality Hands, Mannequin Haus, Velvet-Tail, Requited Journal, The Feminist Wire, Word For/Word, Literary Orphans, Lavender Review, & Pank.  she is in a post-punk band called the velblouds. her baby @ femalefilet.  more art @ artmugre & a clip.  her first book, fitting a witch//hexing the stitch, will be born in 2017 (The Operating System).  she is an energy.  find her @ hermetic hare for herbal astrological readings.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.

Coping with Jacklyn Janeksela, Author of ‘fitting a witch//hexing the stitch’ was last modified: July 5th, 2017 by ccm
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#CopingWith: 13 Books You Should Be Teaching

Here are some books you should be teaching in your workshops and classes.

1. Jayy Dodd – “Mannish Tongues” (Platypus Press, 2016)
2. Gabrielle Civil – “Swallow the Fish” (CCM, 2016)
3. Wendy C. Ortiz – “Bruja” (CCM, 2016)
4. Chiwan Choi – “The Yellow House” (CCM, 2016)
5. Michael Schmeltzer – “Blood Song” (Two Sylvias Press, 2016)
6. Kim Hyesoon – “All of the Garbage of the World, Unite!” (Action Books, 2011)
7. Cathy Park Hong – “Engine Empire” (Norton, 2013)
8. Jamaal May – “Hum” (Alice James Books, 2013)
9. Cortney Lamar Charleston – “Telepathologies” (Saturnalia Books, 2017)
10. Lynn Melnick – “If I Should Say I Have Hope” (Yes Yes Book, 2013)
11. Claudia Cortese “Wasp Queen” (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)
12. Srikanth Reddy – “Voyager” (New California Poetry, 2011)
13. Marie NDiaye (translated by Jordan Stump) – “My Heart Hemmed In” (Two Lines Press, 2017)


Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.

#CopingWith: 13 Books You Should Be Teaching was last modified: June 27th, 2017 by ccm
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“Readers of Scott Esposito’s Conversational Reading blog already know him to be one of the most perspicacious literary critics in America. But to read The Doubles is to discover something else: that he is as thrillingly insightful about film, and about human experience, as he is about literature. With a bounding intelligence, a tremendous—and seemingly effortless—erudition, with enormous soulfulness, energy and wit, Esposito strains his life through the prism of cinema (or is it the other way around?) and arrives at something magnificent: a work of sustained criticism that is itself a work of high art, and a profound meditation on how the art we see becomes who we are.”
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Coping with Scott Esposito, Author of ‘The Doubles’

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Scott Esposito is the author of his forthcoming book “The Doubles,” which will be released this fall. Besides that, however, Esposito is the editor and founder of Conversational Reader and The Quarterly Conversation, as well as the Publicity Director and Senior Editor for Two Lines Press.

Of his book, Mathew Specktor said, “Readers of Scott Esposito’s Conversational Reading blog already know him to be one of the most perspicacious literary critics in America. But to read The Doubles is to discover something else: that he is as thrillingly insightful about film, and about human experience, as he is about literature. With a bounding intelligence, a tremendous—and seemingly effortless—erudition, with enormous soulfulness, energy and wit, Esposito strains his life through the prism of cinema (or is it the other way around?) and arrives at something magnificent: a work of sustained criticism that is itself a work of high art, and a profound meditation on how the art we see becomes who we are.”

Luckily, he talked to me about his favorite gif, meal, and apocalypse plans:

Describe your favorite meal.

What a fantastic question to start with. (I think having good meals, especially with pleasant company, is one of life’s most important things.) I once dined on a rooftop in Athens during the summer, with excellent views of the Parthenon. They kept bringing us various foods—salads, roast peppers, cheeses, moussaka . . . and we had a bottle of red wine. It was about 70 degrees, the ambiance was intimate but also felt very urban, we talked for hours. I think that’s just about perfect.

What music do often you write to, if at all?

It’s almost always either hip-hop or classical, maybe a little jazz sometimes. Something like Future is great to write to: it’s very easy to ignore the lyrics and just let the rhythms inhabit you, the sounds inspire you. The minimalists are also great in that way. But really almost any good hip-hop will do . . . once I get immersed in the focus of what I’m writing, it’s amazing how much ambient sights and sounds my mind will block out.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

1984 was probably one of the first “adult” books that I read and understood and found utterly compelling. I wasn’t terribly literate at that age, so something in me must just resonate very much with that book.

I could also say that same thing about 2001, which I discovered at about the same time—first I saw the movie, and then I read the book (which was written concurrently with the making of the movie). The whole idea that that book and movie sets out to embody still utterly fascinates me.

And Água Viva by Clarice Lispector was a book that I discovered very early on, and was compelled by even though it also completely mystified me. Nowadays it mystifies me much less, also still more than virtually any other book, and I mean that in a good way.

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?

Caravaggio’s portrait of Saint Jerome is just about perfect. As a visual aesthetic, an attitude, Caravaggio’s work in general feels very true to me. And in Jerome it reaches something like it’s ideal form. The intricate folds of that red robe he’s wearing, the stark black background, the way he clutches his pencil (I always have a pencil when I read), his focus, that skull to his side to remind him of mortality, that wicked, wispy halo. It’s all just perfect.

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you.


I like to start off the day feeling peaceful and inspired. I try to read a few lines of good poetry if I can, otherwise I just sit there and contemplate the day ahead.

Oftentimes things go seriously down from there, but it’s nice to have a good start at least.

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

I think, contrary to popular belief, humanity will find a way to keep propagating itself no matter if we manage to unleash nuclear weapons, or contagions, or evil robots upon ourselves, as seems uncomfortably possible. I think if we end ourselves, it will just be from boredom with the possibilities of being human. Either that or the sun will engulf the Earth, or a catastrophic collision with an extraterrestrial body, and that’ll be it.

I think it would be fascinating to die by drifting into a supermassive black hole. According to what I’ve read, the physics is such that you’d be able to briefly witness the end of the universe, and your own death would be very peaceful.

If you could only watch three films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

I think Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, to always remember how it is to be young and feel that life is full of possibilities. And Kieslowski’s Double Life of Véronique, because it’s just so mysterious and lovely. And Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, because there are so many layers to it, and it’s a perfect love story.

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

My persona is me, albeit a version of me that’s preternaturally fascinated with books and cats. My role (which I don’t always live up to, but which I do aspire to) is to share information about art and literature, to get people to read books I find amazing, to not let those books be lost in the churn and flow of culture, to inspire people, to be empathetic and encouraging, and of course to also self-promote.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

A lot of animals are very fascinating, or are able to do things that I find quite astonishing, but probably the cat is the only animal that I could manage to co-habitate with, so I think I would have to say that one.

What do you carry with you at all times?

For years I’ve made it a practice to always have a book and a pencil with me whenever I’m out of the house. I fear that’s the boring truth of it.


Scott Esposito has worked in the field of translated literature for over a decade. He specializes in Latin American and Mitteleuropan literature.

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.

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June 13, 2017
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#CopingWith: 10 Essays & Interviews That Are a Gift to Your Mind

Just because it’s nearly summer doesn’t mean it’s time for your mind to go on vacation, especially now. Here’s some essays and interviews that you should check out:

1. Julia Fierro – “The Secret to My Success? Antidepressants” (NY Times)
2. Brandon Taylor – “Being Gay vs Being Southern: A False Choice” (Lit Hub)
3. Catherine La Sota – “Late to the Party: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar” (Electric Literature)
4. Alexis P. Williams – “Interview with Aziza Barnes: A Queer Black Poet’s Quest for Liberation” (Vice)
5. Toni Morrison – “The Work You Do, The Person You Are” (The New Yorker)
6. Kaveh Akbar & Kazim Ali – “Silence and Breath: Kaveh Akbar and Kazim Ali” (Asian Americans Writers Workshop)
7. Brandon Shimoda – “The Night Cafe” (Entropy)
8. Lucie Bonvalet – “The Future of Traumatic Memories” (Catapult)
9. Porochista Khakpour – “How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay” (Catapult)
10. Kate Schapira – “On Political Change, Climate Change, and the Choice to Not Have Children” (Catapult)


Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos,  and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.

#CopingWith: 10 Essays & Interviews That Are a Gift to Your Mind was last modified: June 27th, 2017 by ccm
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#CopingWith: 13 Poems You Should Be Teaching

These are poems that I have either taught or plan to teach in my poetry workshops. If you are an educator, add them to your curriculum. If you aren’t, read them and send them to your friends.

1. Mathias Svalina – “One Night” (Poets.org)
2. Lisa Ciccarello – “At Night, By Marriage” (Poets.org)
3. Tarfia Faizullah – “Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito” (Poetry Foundation)
4. Sherwin Bitsui – “River” (Poetry Foundation)
5. Omar Sakr – “Ghosting the Ghetto” (Cosmonauts Avenue)
6. Sam Sax – “Doctrine” (Poets.org)
7. Nils Michals – “The Key, the Lock” (PANK)
8. Srikanth Reddy – “Four Poems” (Jacket Magazine)
9. Kim Hyesoon – “Three Poems” (Asymptote)
10. Natalie Eilbert – “Imprecation“ (Poetry Society of America)
11. Solmaz Sharif – “Social Skills Training” (Buzzfeed)
12. Charif Shanahan – “Wanting to be White” (Lit Hub)
13. Richard Siken – “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” (Poetry Foundation)


Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos, and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.

#CopingWith: 13 Poems You Should Be Teaching was last modified: June 27th, 2017 by ccm
May 22, 2017
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#CopingWith: 13 Fiction Pieces You Need To Read

This week, I rounded up some fiction you should read.

1. Ilana Masad – “Hamlet, Claudia, Zanzibar” (Volume 1 Brooklyn)
2. Michelle Lyn King – “Ghosts You Loved More” (Joyland)
3. Rion Amilcar Scott – “The Party” (Joyland)
4. Kamil Ahsan – “The Bare-Bones Facts” (Entropy)
5. Han Yujoo – “The Impossible Fairytale, excerpt” (Cosmonauts Avenue)
6. Henry Hoke – “Genevieve Exists” (Entropy)
7. Bud Smith – “Temporarily Here” (Digging Through the Fat)
8. Celeste Mohammed – “When a White Man Paints Black People” (The Rumpus)
9. Becky Mandelbaum – “Straw House” (The Rumpus)
10. Chavisa Woods – “A New Mohawk” (Lit Hub)
11. Nick Cave – “The Sick Bad Song” (Lit Hub)
12. Kerry Cullen – “Tell Me What to Do” (Luna Luna Magazine)
13. Justin Lawrence Daugherty – “This Is Conquest” (Joyland)


Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos,  and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.

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