I'm excited to be in Seattle and Portland. Jay Winston Ritchie: When did you start writing poetry Monica MM:: I always wrote poetryI remember covering my lilac-painted walls one day with black. With Taye Diggs, Monica McClure and Miko Branch, Kaufman Astoria Studios, NYC. Then he said, "I like the way you talk about books it's so personable," which is the coolest thing I've ever heard anyone say about the way another person talks about books. Poetry in Popular Culture - The Writers Program (UCLA - open to general. When he asked me about it, I said it was so lush and fecund and too vegetative to read in the subway. My friend Menachem recommended it to me in preparation for my trip to Poland last month. In Tender Data Monica McClure breaks down and breaks into various identities, each of them hashtagged in the discourses of their time and place, whether macha or chiflada, couture or fast fashion, acephale or technocrat: 'I want to be so skinny people ask if I'm dying.' Down the blood-red lanes of gender-making, class warfare, and vexed. She is the author of Tender Data (Birds LLC, 2015) and chapbooks Mala (Poor Claudia, 2014) and Mood Swing (Snacks Press, 2013).Her poetry and critical writing can be found in Tin House, The Claudius App, Jubilat, Lambda Literary Review Spotlight Series, Emily Books, The Hairpin, The Huffington Post, The Awl, Spork Press, The Los Angeles Review, Intercourse Magazine, The Lit Review, and CultureStrike / The Margins.McClure is a poetry. Bernard Ferguson Bernard Ferguson (they/them) is a Bahamian poet and essayist. I am reading the Streets of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Shultz. Monica McClure is the author of the poetry collection, Tender Data (Birds, LLC, 2015) and the chapbooks, Concomitance (Counterpath Press, 2016), Boss Parts 1& 2 (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016), Mala (Poor Claudia, 2014), and Mood Swing (Snacks Press 2013). Monica McClure is a writer and performer based in New York. She has taught for Urban Word NYC, the Volume Summer Institute and York CollegeCUNY, and she has been teaching online poetry classes via her company Freer Form for the last nine years. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors picks, and more. Working with Birds was like being on a really good high school football team, like the Dillon Panthers - or better yet, the East Dillon Panthers - and I was the temperamental and physically delicate quarterback in the red practice jersey. The running theme in Michael McClures Simple Eyes & Other Poems is: looking at the. Tender Data was published by Birds LLC, a small press that operates out of Austin, Minneapolis, New York, and Raleigh.
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