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Two ladies who muse about fashion, the detritus of our involuted brains, and Faulkner. (Who made one of switch from an English to Comparative Ethnic Studies degree, and made the other of us throw away 250 pages of our first novel.)

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Fashion for Writers

429. Hungry for a holiday

In the past three months, I went to Iowa City, taught at a summer writing camp for high school teenagers, read in Kansas City with Anne Boyer and Debbie Hu, whose poetry & whose crying made me cry,...

Sep 25, 2012 Like

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428. Rookie’s coming to Brooklyn TODAY/ my Popsickle brat/ last week’s official officiating

Last weekend, I officiated the wedding of my oldest best friend. Everyone cried, the wedding was beautiful, at times I felt like I was at the basketball game of my dreams, my mother told me I was...

Jun 25, 2012 Like

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427. I’m reading tonight with my best girl at Public Assembly in Brooklyn

Hello rosebuds, June’s gloom has big plans for us and I have plans tonight to read poetry for the Hatchet Job reading series with my best girl, Anna North, & Guy Pettit and Rachel Glaser. Ben Fama...

Jun 5, 2012 Like

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426. I’m reading this Sunday at Flying Object in Hadley, MA

I’m traveling up the Northeast corridor. The last time I was in New England, I was with my aunt, my cousin, my brother, and my mom and dad. This time it’s just me. I’ll be reading poems from my...

Jun 1, 2012 Like

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425. Not moving on but on on on

Listening to MIA on the LIRR my dresser, my mom Some weekend morning on our deck; cheesy smile. Maybe I talk too much about hating the town where I became a surly, gross teenager who walked around...

May 29, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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424. BALLS OUT COMEDY

This Thursday, I’ll be performing a story about my grandmother’s breasts and how she tried to breastfeed all of her grandchildren as part of BALLS OUT COMEDY, a monthly comedy-variety show held at...

May 22, 2012 Like

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423. My bubble

Having had moved three times in the past six months, having had long bouts of loneliness and happiness knocking against each other like helium balloons tied to a fence post, having fits of...

May 18, 2012 Like

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422. Two interviews: one old, one new. I’m also old and also new.

1. Polka dot tights & 90′s crushed velvet for ramen in the East Village with Sam when he was visiting from Shanghai; sharing my heart stuff with my best girl Leslie at an all night diner where we...

Apr 9, 2012 Like

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421. I’m hiccuping poems tonight in Brooklyn: BookCourt bookstore @ 7PM

I just hope I can be half the hot mess I have always wanted to be. Please stop by and say hi if you aren’t busy with cooler shit to do tonight. I’ll be reading with Adam Wilson, Abby Sher, and...

Apr 2, 2012 Like

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420. My feelings have feelings

And they feel like this: I’m back from tour. I will tell you what happened on tour–the rock that shattered Zach’s van window, and the porcelain figurines of Jesus and Mary and Joseph and the angel...

Mar 28, 2012 Like 2 people like this

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419. It is 3:33 and I can’t sleep because one-third of me is somewhere else and all three-thirds of me will be someplace else in a few hours because in a few hours I’m going on tour

Just about nothing is significant and yet I still experience it all like I can’t wait to go on or else just go on. Today was full of people I love like Claire and Kyle on three-way, no-video video...

Mar 17, 2012 Like 2 people like this

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418. CRINGE

Yo New Yorkers! I am going to be reading from my teenage diaries tonight at for Cringe and talking about my love for the Hanson brothers, which I already went into embarrassing, uncensored detail...

Mar 15, 2012 Like 2 people like this

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417. Upcoming readings in NY, Chicago & beyond (if you want to see me nervous, unappealing, & happy)

Hi warblers and ramblers, if you’re in NYC this week and have some kind of desire to spend your time wastefully, I am here to let you know that I will be reading TONIGHT from my forthcoming book of...

Feb 24, 2012 Like

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416. I wrote a book. It’s called: DEAR JENNY, WE ARE ALL FIND

To all the starlings, friends, family members and strangers who read this dank little blog: I just want to tell you that my first book of poetry, Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, is finally making its...

Feb 1, 2012 Like 3 people like this

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415. Locker rooms for the ashes of martyrs

Please forgive me for the months of silence, for not responding to your emails even though they were all long and beautiful and deserving of clarity and order and adventure, for being a weird...

Jan 23, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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414. Not denying anyone of their multitudes

1. Today on the train, a teenage boy told the girl next to him–I think she was his girlfriend–that her forehead pimple was so huge, astronauts could use it for landing. I remember being that girl...

Oct 27, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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413. France, how I remember it and am remembering it (the first tiny part of something that has infinite, changing parts)

One year and three weeks ago, I arrived at Gare de Lyon in Paris and I took this photo. I honestly don’t even remember how I got from the airport to the train station. But somehow, I was there. In...

Oct 21, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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412. Firsts

Ashley took this photo of me at the blogger picnic in Central Park that happened a few weeks ago, and was sweet enough to send it to me. I’m wearing a Mandate of Heaven playsuit, a peach bow given...

Sep 30, 2011 Like

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411. Some (good) news (& not just for the boys with the boomin’ system)

Good morning, lil mamas. I’m surrounded by beetles and rose petals I saved from when I was in high school. Speaking of high school, my secret summer project has finally launched, and it’s a...

Sep 9, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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410. Stupid trucs that are important to me even if they are not intrisincally wondrous and also, where are they?

Last night, I saw my friends Laura & Jon for the first time since we were all in France. They lived in a really charming seaside town La Ciotat, and I lived in Avignon. One weekend, they visited me...

Sep 5, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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409. Secrets that are not secrets because I dangle them over your bunny-self like a carrot and I clearly want to draw your attention to mememememe!

I once went 6 years not brushing my hair. 10 one-month trips to China, a summer in rural Romania, a summer in St. Petersburg, Russia and Eastern Europe, and the past year I spent in France has...

Aug 23, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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408. My my metrocard & my bad bad

If you liked my last post, here‘s it’s bigger, badder, sadder, happier, cuter, so so so much more beautiful friend, written to break your heart and the heart inside your heart by none other than...

Aug 15, 2011 Like

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407. The curtains I made from glittery rainbows and a unicorn that farts butterflies; these things are lies but still nice to think about

Did I mention I was in Iowa City for three weeks, teaching at the greatest summer camp with the greatest people and the greatest students. These young poets and seers and storytellers and future...

Aug 2, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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406. The yolk was pink these not sailors broke a watermelon and slid on the melon floor like I am not a sailor

One egg came out with pink yolk. Oh my ovaries. We cooked it and then I researched ‘should i eat pink yolk if i don’t wanna die or be even a little sick’ and the results came in: don’t eat pink...

Jul 30, 2011 Like

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405. I scraped my knees

Hi summer goons, I left France to go to New York for two days to go to Iowa City for three weeks to go to Shanghai for one year. I’m teaching at a summer creative writing camp for high school kids,...

Jul 19, 2011 Like

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404. Blurry

Three weeks ago, Marianne was visiting me and we flirted with a boy named Vladmir who draws comics and bartends at the bar where I like to go on Monday nights to listen to poetry and fiction and...

Jul 1, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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403. If I want to be surrounded in a bubble of love and I want everyone else to have his and her own bubble of love then how would we configure ourselves to make all this possible

My oldest and best childhood friend, Harry and his girlfriend Janice (now fiancée after a late night Eiffel tower proposal!) were in Paris last weekend. It was so great to see them and show them...

Jun 3, 2011 Like 2 people like this

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402. kids on holiday

Hi, I have been thinking about what I put in my body and also sometime what I put on it (like: food stains, beer sloshed over the front of a dress that I had been afraid to wear because of exactly...

May 24, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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401. Raw-crust straight from the gutter

I was being exploited in Paris for a week and then I had to get out of there. There being a basement studio where seven men wielding hammers regularly stood in the space I had to cross in order to...

May 9, 2011 Like 2 people like this

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400. I was here then I wasn’t here then I went somewhere then I came back then I went away then I came back and now I’m going again, to Paris to read books and be alone

I went to the Feria in Arles on Sunday (the ancient Roman city of Arles, which knows only glory and splendor!) and my heart was muttering and stuttering all day. No more about that. I’ve decided to...

Apr 27, 2011 Like 1 person likes this

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Fashion for Writers

429. Hungry for a holiday

428. Rookie’s coming to Brooklyn TODAY/ my Popsickle brat/ last week’s official officiating

427. I’m reading tonight with my best girl at Public Assembly in Brooklyn

426. I’m reading this Sunday at Flying Object in Hadley, MA

425. Not moving on but on on on

424. BALLS OUT COMEDY

423. My bubble

422. Two interviews: one old, one new. I’m also old and also new.

421. I’m hiccuping poems tonight in Brooklyn: BookCourt bookstore @ 7PM

420. My feelings have feelings

419. It is 3:33 and I can’t sleep because one-third of me is somewhere else and all three-thirds of me will be someplace else in a few hours because in a few hours I’m going on tour

418. CRINGE

417. Upcoming readings in NY, Chicago & beyond (if you want to see me nervous, unappealing, & happy)

416. I wrote a book. It’s called: DEAR JENNY, WE ARE ALL FIND

415. Locker rooms for the ashes of martyrs

414. Not denying anyone of their multitudes

413. France, how I remember it and am remembering it (the first tiny part of something that has infinite, changing parts)

412. Firsts

411. Some (good) news (& not just for the boys with the boomin’ system)

410. Stupid trucs that are important to me even if they are not intrisincally wondrous and also, where are they?

409. Secrets that are not secrets because I dangle them over your bunny-self like a carrot and I clearly want to draw your attention to mememememe!

408. My my metrocard & my bad bad

407. The curtains I made from glittery rainbows and a unicorn that farts butterflies; these things are lies but still nice to think about

406. The yolk was pink these not sailors broke a watermelon and slid on the melon floor like I am not a sailor

405. I scraped my knees

404. Blurry

403. If I want to be surrounded in a bubble of love and I want everyone else to have his and her own bubble of love then how would we configure ourselves to make all this possible

402. kids on holiday

401. Raw-crust straight from the gutter

400. I was here then I wasn’t here then I went somewhere then I came back then I went away then I came back and now I’m going again, to Paris to read books and be alone

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