CARNAGE IN THE TIME OF GAGA:  A ROMP IN THE AESTHETIC FIELD OF GURLESQUE POETICS   A decade ago two Gen X female poets, Lara Glenum and Arielle Green­berg, iden­ti­fied an emerg­ing trend among dis­parate female poets born of the same gen­er­a­tion. It was not a the­o­ry or an orga­nized move­ment but rather a new […]

2012 Map Lit­er­ary Non­fic­tion Con­test Hon­or­able Men­tion     10/31/98           I am a cau­tion­ary tale. I am the after-school spe­cial you tell your col­lege-bound daugh­ter to watch, the pam­phlet on drinking/date rape/safe sex you pick up at the uni­ver­si­ty health cen­ter. If you work up the nerve to lis­ten to my sto­ry, you can­not help […]