AWP is Not for Me (This Year)

I won't be at AWP this year in Washington, D.C., but my latest book will. Mendeleev's Mandala will be at the Mayapple Press Table (SPD/CLMP 616/618). If you have a chance to visit it, please do. Wish I could be there, but in fact, I have never been to an AWP. Maybe next year?

P&W Sighting

Look--a page from this month's Poets & Writers, and what do I see in the upper right corner? Mendeleev's Mandala! Yay!

And Jeannine Hall Gailey's The Robot Scientist's Daughter is on the bottom left, next to Devon Moore's Apology of a Woman Who Is Told She Is Going to Hell. (This photo is courtesy of Devon, too--I don't have my copy yet.)

Yay for Mayapple Press & its authors!

AWP 2015

I won't be at AWP 2015 but some of my work will.

1) Find my book at the Mayapple Press table in the Exhibition Hall at Booth 1237 (right in front of the AWP Stage). Also, consider attending the Mayapple Press & One Wet Shoe Reading as follows (I won't be there):

What: Mayapple Press and One Wet Shoe Reading
Where: 609 S 10th Street Minneapolis, MN 55404 (Map)
When: Saturday April 11, 2015
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Participating Mayapple Press authors:
Betsy Johnson-Miller, author of Fierce This Falling
Devon Moore, author of Apology of a Girl Who Is Told She Is Going to Hell
Helen Ruggieri, co-editor of Written On Water: Writings About the Allegheny River and author of Glimmer Girls

2) "Crows, Reckoning," a poem from my new Mayapple Press book Mendeleev's Mandala, was subsequently made into a Motionpoem. There'll be a sneak preview at the VIDA Awards (and I won't be there either!).

Awards presented include:
• Cheryl Strayed WINNER of the 2015 VIDA Vanguard Award!
• VIDA's Kickass Press Award
• The VIDO Award
• Fiction Awards
• Poetry Awards
• Non-fiction Awards

BONUS:
The Exclusive Film Premiere of the
2015 MOTIONPOEMS SEASON

Thursday, April 9th
AWP Minneapolis
Doors @ 7:30
Awards Program @ 9:00
Dance Party @ 11:00

Skyway Theater | Minneapolis, MN
711 Hennepin Avenue

Please note: Advance tickets sold do not guarantee admission. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis, determined by the event venue's maximum capacity. Don't be discouraged! Attendees will come and go -- if you can't get in early, come back later for the dance party! If you cannot attend, please consider making a donation to VIDA to help advance our mission of gender parity in contemporary literature.

I wish I could be at these places, but I can't. If you go, enjoy, and let me know!

Giveaway!

Here's your chance to win a free signed copy of Mendeleev's Mandala, my new book from Mayapple Press. You can't win if you don't play!

Last Chance

My new book Mendeleev's Mandala will be published on February 15th, so it's your last chance to get the special pre-order price from Mayapple Press.

Thanks to all who've ordered already--your books will ship soon!

Mendeleev's Mandala Available for Pre-Order

My new book, Mendeleev's Mandala, is available for a special pre-order price of  $13.95 + S&H from Mayapple Press. There's one button for orders from the US, and another button for orders from Japan.


Here are what some generous poets have had to say about it:

This book is a library whittled down to a message in a bottle. Here is a poet who has boldly refused to abide to the expectations of genre—but instead, pushes language and form as a means of asking the most urgent questions. The result is a courageous and kaleidoscopic, at times tender and vulnerable, exploration of motherhood and family—set against the backdrops of science, history, religion, myths, and mathematics. When a poet embarks on a book as myriad and borderless as this one, we are gifted the rare chance to stand at the threshold of a formidable human storm. And from here, it is clear that Goodfellow’s Mendeleev’s Mandala is an electric book. But its lines are not limited to lightning. They move more like thunder, startling, resonant, and suddenly everywhere in the mind at once. – Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds

Jessica Goodfellow has a joyous intelligence and electric tongue. Reading this book a first time, my only regret was that I couldn’t read it a second first time. But then I read it a first second time and a first third. You see what I’m doing? I’m reading this book over and over, without ever completely taking it in. I think you will too. And like me, want only one thing from Jessica Goodfellow – more.  – Bob Hicok

From the origin of the number zero to immigration to map making, these poems leap dynamically between ideas and a blazing exploration of language. Folding and unfolding with searing brilliance, these poems reveal our human condition with a down-to-earth sense of humor and wonder. This must-read collection nourishes mind and body and opens up whole new ways of seeing the world around us. – Judy Halebsky, author of Tree Line

December Reading

I'll be participating in a reading on December 7th (Sunday), from 5 pm, at  Bar Iznt in Kobe. This is the inaugural event for a series called Authors Live! Other readers that evening will be Suzanne Kamata, Jared Angel, and Sue Sullivan (the others are not poets, so there will be a variety of genres for you to enjoy). Additionally, there will be a musical guest Steve Muller. This event is in conjunction with the journal The Font.

Although I'm billed as reading from The Insomniac's Weather Report, I'll also read a few selections from Mendeleev's Mandala, forthcoming from Mayapple Press in 2015.

Mark your calendar!

Mendeleev's Mandala Finds a Home

Mendeleev's Mandala, my most recent manuscript, has found a home at Mayapple Press. I'm excited to report that in February 2015, Judith Kerman's press will be publishing Mendeleev's Mandala (recently a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press).

I'm delighted to be joining quite a few poets whose work I admire who also call Mayapple Press their home, including Penelope Scambly Schott, Jeannine Hall Gailey (book forthcoming in 2015), Jayne Pupek, and Allison Joseph, among others.

Yay!