Pulitzer Remix Recap

Sigh. I'm going through "remixing" withdrawal. After writing every day, it feels weird not to have a daily writing deadline for the Pulitzer Remix. 

I've worked on erasure poems/found poems before but this was the first time I spent such an extended period of time working on a project like this. It was an amazing experience! Thanks to Jenni B. Baker for the opportunity to be a part of this innovative project and welcoming writing community.

I was one of 85 poets who wrote an original found poem a day for the month of April using words from Pulitzer Prize winning works of fiction. The Pulitzer Remix was sponsored by the Found Poetry Review.

The website will soon disappear, so please check out the thousands of poems while you still can.

To read all 30 of my poems, please click HERE.

Thanks for reading.

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Interview with CULT MTL

We're already past the halfway point for the Pulitzer Remix project and National Poetry Month. I can't believe I've been keeping up with posting poem a day. Okay, okay, so I'm behind on today's poem but that'll be remedied soon. Poet's promise...

CULT MTL, Montreal's English-language arts, culture and news website & monthly print publication (which took over the void left by the departure of The Hour and The Mirror) kindly did an interview with me about the Pulitzer Remix.

Please check out the interview HERE.

Thank you, Rachel Levine

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Pulitzer Remix for National Poetry Month

For National Poetry Month, I will be writing/remixing poems based on the 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction - Martin Flavin's Journey in the Dark - every day for the month of April. Stay tuned for my poems...

Please check out:

1) An interview with me about the Pulitzer Remix project HERE.

2) The Pulitzer Remix website HERE.

3) The Pulitzer Remix project press release HERE.

4) An interview with Pulitzer Remix and The Found Poetry Review founder, Jenni B. Baker HERE.

Happy National Poetry Month!

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Brock Lesnar Poem

Wrestlemania 29 is right around the corner.

To celebrate, The Barnstormer has republished my poem about the human wrecking ball, Brock Lesnar.

Read "Brock Lesner: Here Comes The Pain" HERE.

Thank you to Mike Spry and The Barnstormer editorial team.

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New Poem in Cha

I have a new poem in the March 2013 issue of the Hong Kong-based, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

I don't consider it my typical writing style, as I tend to keep away from writing about my life in such a direct and revealing manner but I was inspired by a writing exercise I learned from the very talented Moe Clark who I recently had the great pleasure of co-teaching a writing workshop with for the Quebec Writers' Federation's Writers in the Community program.

The poem's themes touch on ethnicity and adoption. It is dedicated to my mother.

Please read the poem HERE.

Thank you, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming and the team of editors at Cha.

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Upcoming Publication Roundup of Stuff

Daddy Cool 

1) Really thrilled to find out I am going to be published in DADDY COOL, an anthology of writing by fathers, for and about kids, edited by Ben Tanzer and published by Artistically Declined Press. Dad swag, all the way!

Check out their Kickstarter vid HERE.

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

2) I will have a new poem in the upcoming March 2013 issue of the Hong Kong-based Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Stay tuned!

My work has been published in Cha before. Please check out my poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" HERE and an in-depth look at the poem in A Cup of Fine Tea HERE.

Also, a review by Cha of my debut poetry collection The Emperor' Sofa HERE.

Thanks for reading!

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Literary Boroughs: Montreal

Ploughshares covers Montreal, Quebec, Canada in their "Literary Boroughs" series.

Happy to see the Quebec Writers' Federation, carte blanche (where I am the poetry co-editor),  and DC Books (my publisher) get some shout-outs.

Please check out the whole article HERE.

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