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forensic-houseian: book challenge day 04: a book that reminds...

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:38:16 -0400

book challenge day 04: a book that reminds you of home

the truth is, right now i don’t know what home is. it is where i came from? where i lay my head at night? i think it is where my heart is— in poetry. right now i am very rooted in slam poetry, and what is getting me through what’s been going on is the chapbooks that i have collected from various poets:
Rachel Wiley
Caroline Rothstein
Jon Sands
Rachel McKibens
Angelique Palmer
Rob Sturma
Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory

they are all special to me because they remind me of a time when something magical happened… and they are all signed. i am weird like that.

my other home book is Vonnegut’s Man Without a Country… i was in the Epileptic Monitoring Unit when Vonnegut died, and it affected me quite seriously… it may have been a combination of withdrawal and sleep deprivation but seeing it repeated on the news (the one thing that is always on in the hospital is the news and Jeopardy!)… this book is not like his others. i find the poetry in Vonnegut’s work, and this is his most revealing. it will always bring me back to that hospital bed.

and this is why I do this.

TERROR MAGAZINE: Art + Entertainment | Are We There Yet? A Meditation on the Entertainment Industry’s War on Bullying

Mon, 07 May 2012 02:00:00 -0400

TERROR MAGAZINE: Art + Entertainment | Are We There Yet? A Meditation on the Entertainment Industry’s War on Bullying :

terrormagazine:

By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory

When I was growing up, bullying happened and that was the end of it. If you reached senior year of high school without having your body image steamrolled, your social habits nitpicked, or some part of your body assaulted, you were one of a lucky few. Surviving it…

TERROR MAGAZINE: Art + Entertainment | Girls in the Hood: Women in Street Art

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

TERROR MAGAZINE: Art + Entertainment | Girls in the Hood: Women in Street Art:

terrormagazine:

By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory

Whether you were first introduced to street art through Banksy’s un-documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, nineteen-eighties hip-hop cult classics like Beat Street, the early artistic forays of Jean-Michel Basquiat, or random explorations of the walls in…

even in the most trying of moments

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:41:12 -0400

i am a lucky, lucky girl.

(3/30) - truth

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:58:48 -0400

i would forgive you in a second

if only my body could

remember how.

"The Human Brain Gets a New Map" (via Wired)

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:04:47 -0400

"The Human Brain Gets a New Map" (via Wired)

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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:57:21 -0400

"If you and I had some drums And some horns and some horses If we had some hats and some Flags and..."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:55:40 -0400

“If you and I had some drums
And some horns and some horses
If we had some hats and some
Flags and some fire-engines
We could be a HOLIDAY
We could be a CELEBRATION
We could be a WHOLE PARADE”

- Sandol Stoddard Warburg

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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:51:46 -0400

Brooklyn, We Go Hard: Presentation Party Night NYC, 3.18.12

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:29:02 -0400

Brooklyn, We Go Hard: Presentation Party Night NYC, 3.18.12:

Awesome mini-blogumentary about the March 2012 edition of Presentation Party Night NYC, a think-tank-turned-party where I was invited to present on indie publishing. Check it out!

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:22:44 -0500

Title: We Are Young Artist: Fun. featuring Janelle Monae

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:02:44 -0500

Title: We Are Young

Artist: Fun. featuring Janelle Monae

deathhumsmagazine: SHHH! It’s a secret. If you print out the...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:11:56 -0500

deathhumsmagazine:

SHHH! It’s a secret.

If you print out the entire flyer (front & back, pictured above) & show it at the door on Sunday, December 4th at the Quarterly Arts Soiree, you’ll automatically get $5 off admission.

P.S.,

If you’re having trouble printing the flyer from here, click the QAS link above & you can print it right from the front page of the site.

(Posted by: Jennifer)

"Love is" in i79 of Short Fast & Deadly

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:20:52 -0500

Check it out here.

"Black Holes for Beginners" on the Serotonin Factory's Friday Love Poem Blog

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:07:36 -0500

"Black Holes for Beginners" on the Serotonin Factory's Friday Love Poem Blog:

Brand-new poem. These ones are few and far between, so check it out now!

New Poem by Michelle Denise Jackson. Act Like You Know.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:11:50 -0500

New Poem by Michelle Denise Jackson. Act Like You Know.:

borderlinepoetry:

Hera’s Vows to Zeus, On Their Wedding Day

On the day when
my breath becomes an ailing furnace
and my skeleton is the ramshackle remnant
of this massacre we call living,
I hope you will still see me as I am today,
a girl on a mountaintop
in a white dress
jumping from an…

Read this poem.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:09:09 -0500

Read this poem.:

borderlinepoetry:

The Prayers of Bullets
After Annelyse Gelman

Forgive us our velocity, the way
we can only love inside out—
our piety has always been clumsy.

But we still remember creation—
The day you tore us from the sky,
and we marveled at the thunder
you had placed in our throats.
This…

Hi. I am the original writer! =) Just finished it today! You can absolutely publish it! I would be more than thrilled! =)))) Thanks so much!

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:41:35 -0400

Amazing! Can you email it to me at rhapsodyinblu@gmail.com along with your real name, contact info, and a short bio? If so, I’ll publish it in the September issue of Borderline (http://borderlinepoetry.info).

& Thank YOU for being awesome.

(>-) + <3

Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory, Editor-in-Chief

Armed with every precious failure: The Sound of Becoming

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:34:08 -0400

Armed with every precious failure: The Sound of Becoming:

can someone point me in the direction of the original writer? i would love to publish this.

playingtheboard:

Sometimes it is a bang. A thunder clap
inside the heart—an earthquake. An idea
so strong it spasms, ripples through the body
like the body is a blue-moon rock-kissed lake.
It might be a shotgun blast. A buckshot boom
goose-bumping its way outwards, towards feet
and…

nicolehomer: Poems and Poets and Other Histories We Should Know...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:23:02 -0400

nicolehomer:

Poems and Poets and Other Histories We Should Know #2b

The last poem I posted was Chad Anderson’s “Like Math.” One of the things I want to emphasize is the need for growth and evolution so even though “Like Math” is several years old, it’s still his most requested poem, but it is not representative of who he is now or what he is writing now.

This is “Liars, All of Us,” probably his second most requested poem. It’s two years old so even this isn’t an accurate snapshot of where he is as a writer today, it’s important to note how slam and performance allow us to change both our writing and our delivery styles.