new orleans

I will be in New Orleans later this week/weekend. It you happen to live nearby, I am reading for Megan Burns' terrific 17 Poets! Literary and Performance Series on Thursday evening at 8pm. Come by and say hello!

May 23

Megan Kaminski, Jonathan Brown, and Book Signing for Jimmy Ross' new collection 

Readings begin at 8pm, NOLA Time

The Gold Mine

Say What? from Lavender Ink

Megan Kaminski's first book of poetry is Desiring Map (Coconut Books 2012). She is also the author of six chapbooks,This Place (Dusie, 2013), Gemology (Little Red Leaves Textile Series, 2012), favored daughter (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), collection (Dusie, 2011), carry catastrophe (Grey Book Press, 2010), and Across Soft Ruins (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Kansas, where she directs the Creative Writing Exchange and the Undergraduate Reading Series and is the faculty sponsor for Siren, a national journal of undergraduate writing.  She also curates the Taproom Poetry Series in downtown Lawrence.

Jonathan Brown has an MA from the New College of California. He is currently working on his MFA in Poetry at University of New Orleans.

desiring map reviewed in quarterly west

The new issue of Quarterly West contains a review of Desiring Map. The review, titled "Blueprints For This Decade," is written by Dale Enggass, and I think it is a really smart reading of the book. I couldn't be more pleased/excited/flattered. You can check out the full review here at Quarterly West.

birthday asteroid

Apparently my birthday this year will be a special day for many reasons, including a 1.7 miles long asteroid "covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue" that will be passing by the earth at 4pm CST. Thank you, Joseph Massey, for alerting me to this momentous event.