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Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science, GoldSF / University of London, forthcoming 2022. More information.
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How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems, Pleiades Press, 2018.
"The ultimate user manual for human existence. Finally, it all makes sense!" -- Charlie Jane Anders |
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There Was an Old Woman: Poems, Unicorn Press, December 2015. Small format: 5 x 4 inches.
Each prose poem in this collection includes a line from Mother Goose. |
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Suicide Hotline Hold Music: Poems, Red Hen Press, April 2016. Poems and poetry comics.
"Playfully expands the boundaries of both poetry and comics.” -- James Kochalka |
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Interruptions: Collaborative Poems, with Daniel M. Shapiro, Pecan Grove Press, 2011.
"A lively, playful collection of poems..."
-- Pittsburgh Magazine |
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Injecting Dreams into Cows: Poems, Red Hen Press, September 2012.
"Full of fresh insights and some nice wildnesses." -- X.J. Kennedy |
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The Wandora Unit: A Novel, Ghost Road Press, 2009.
"Like a John Hughes movie about the Bloomsbury Group" -- Charlie Jane Anders |
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A Day in
Boyland: Poems, Ghost Road Press, 2007. A finalist for the Colorado Book Award.
"Makes
you want to jump on the couch and yell, I love this poet!"
-- Leonard Gontarek
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poetry
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Broken
Heart Diet and Other Food Poems, signed, limited edition chapbook,
Unicorn Press, 2006. |
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Because
Mona is in the Psychiatric Hospital, Pudding House, 2005. |
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Slumber
Party at the Aquarium, signed, limited edition chapbook, Unicorn
Press, 2004. |
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Dorothy
Surrenders, electronic, illustrated chapbook of Wizard
of Oz poems, 2River, 1999. |
  
        
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science fiction stories and poems (selected)
Analog: "Hertha Ayrton" with online interview, "Maryam Mirzakhani," "First Scientist"
Asimov's: "A Different Kind of Stupid," "I Have a Remote," "The
Mirror Speaks," "Annie Jump Cannon" (reprinted in Colorado Encyclopedia), "Helen Taussig" (forthcoming)
"The Lollyball Problem" in Escape into Life and "The Lump" in Escape into Life
"Our Morganna" in Eye to the Telescope
"Alphabet Island" in Flurb
"The Loop" in Just Like a Girl
"The Light Market and the Language Market" in Kaleidotrope, June 2021.
"The Hedon-Ex Anomaly," "Anonymized Orgies," and more in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
"The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole" in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
"Maybe a Witch Lives There" in Mythic Delirium
"'If I Could Travel in Time' by Zed 5755" in Nature
"Unt Not Invent System" in Opium (Literary Death Match video)
"Elizabeth Agassiz" in Scientific American
"Crackling Octopus" and other poems in Star*Line
Strange Horizons: "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home," "Food Diary of Gark the Troll," more
"Story Time for Forest Troop Glink: Return of the Entwives" in Things You Can Create
"Frakking Toasters: The Language of Battlestar Galactica" and more in Theaker's
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humor (selected)
"Everyone's Hair in Middle School," "New Pay-Per-View Channels," "Mundane Dreams," and "What the People Who Used to Live in My House Apparently Said to Each Other Before Selling It to Me" in McSweeney's Internet Tendency
"Seven Things Total Strangers Apparently Think It’s Perfectly Appropriate to Say to a Woman Discreetly Breastfeeding in Public" in Mountain Man Dance Moves: McSweeney's Book of Lists
"Breastfeeding
Tips from the Experts" in Brain, Child |
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"Wizard
Words: The Literary, Latin, and Lexical Origins of Harry Potter's
Vocabulary," in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, Spring
2001. Reprint, "The Fascinating Language of Harry Potter" in Readings
on J.K. Rowling (Greenhaven Press, 2004). A PDF of the article
is here. |
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Guest editor, Snakeskin, annual theme issues on fatherhood, motherhood, deadly sins, fairy tales, libraries, the alphabet, school, collaborations, toys, work, food, found poems, poetry comics, monsters, friendship, numbers/mathematics, and cryptozoology. |
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Interviews in Analog, Colorado Collective, The Colorado Poet, The Nervous Breakdown, E-Words, Folded Word Press, Hairstreak Butterfly, Poemeleon, Murder Your Darlings, Escape into Life, and Little Myths. Audio interviews at KRFC and at KRCC about A Day in Boyland, Injecting Dreams into Cows, and things found in books. |
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Library Shenanigans | readings | Suzie | Karen | "Santa
Clause is Socrates" | Colorado
Poets Center | Poetry Foundation | Poet Tips |
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