Camp Lawless 2019

Camp Lawless is entering its forth year.  I'm thrilled to be teaching this workshop, which begins June 16 and ends August 25th.  We will be going on field trips, workshopping poems, going to a museum, read a book or two, attend the NYC Poetry Festival on Governor's Island.  Register here (click Workshops and scroll downward).    If you have any questions about the workshop, shoot me an email at aelawless@gmail.com

2/7/19

Reading

I'm reading tonight at this.

Boston Poetry Marathon!

GREETINGS!  I am reading at the Boston Poetry Marathon on Friday evening in the 9 pm hour at 196 Hampshire St in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Here's the full schedule & facebook link! 

Reading Friday AUG 10 6pm-10:30pm at the Boston Poetry Marathon

Boston!? 

I'll be reading at the Boston Poetry Marathon on Friday August 10!  Such a great lineup. Super psyched to be reading among such names and faces and words.  This is my third time participating in this event and I'm stoked to be a part of it. :)


Here's the full schedule!  

Reading July 24 with Paul Legault and Diana Arterian!

Hey!

On Tuesday July 24, I'm reading poems with Paul Legault and Diana Arterian at Codex Books, one Bleecker St.   7 pm.

Readings in May & Early June

Here are some readings I'm giving in May and June. Come out to one or all!






Monday May 14 at Spoonbill Studio (7pm) w/ a number of great poets I admire.  Link here.






Friday May 18 at (7 pm) Wendy's Subway with Bridget Talone, Emily Toder, and Jackie Clark.  Event link here.




Wednesday May 30 at Book Culture UWS with Ellen Steinbaum at Book Culture 536 W112th St.




Sunday June 3rd at Botanica (5pm) - Rutgers New Brunswick Creative Writing Faculty Reading

Camp Lawless

ALSO!  I'm teaching Camp Lawless again this year!  Don't delay! Register early to snag your spot.  This summer will feature new guests, field trips to a museum, writing and walking, as well as in class workshop and constant/consistent feedback from me!

Here's the Facebook Link.

Register here.

If you have any questions, by all means email me at aelawless @  gmail dot com  - and I would be happy to answer them!  I'd love to answer any questions or concerns you might have!  This summer will be magic!

WHAT WILD ECSTACY/ Writing Class at Wendy's Subway!

Dear readers of my blog,

I'd like to formally announce that I'm teaching a class in April and May.  It's coming up - starts April 17, so sign up today!    If you have any questions, shoot me an email at aelawless at gmail dot com

 Here's the official info/course description from Wendy's Subway: 

1. 
   
   What Wild Ecstasy? An Ekphrastic Workshop
   Led by Amy Lawless
   Dates: Tuesdays, April 17-May 22, 2018 (6 weeks)
   Times: 7:00-9:30pm 
   Capacity: 12 participants
   Cost: sliding scale, $25-50/session ($150-300 total)
   Registration deadline: April 15th
   Register here.
   Experiment with a range of generative writing exercises in this six-week poetry workshop. Ekphrasis is the process of responding to works of art, images, media, and music through writing. We will use this as a jumping off point as we collaborate with each other and the library at Wendy’s Subway. We will also study performance of all sorts (e.g., film, virtual performances) for rhetorical insight into generating new texts.
   
   By journaling before/in front of/with books and art with glee, shock, and ardor, students will gain an audacious authority over their given subjects. This may lead to a high output of writing (poems) and a toolkit for creative composition. In collaborating with each other, we will dip our toes into a version of a “creative communism” that prompted Robert Rauschenberg to reflect that “ideas are not real estate.”
   
   Students’ poems/hybrid writing will be workshopped in small groups, in full class workshops, and by Amy Lawless individually. Readings will be drawn from poems, short stories, multimodal/virtual sources, and essays.
   
   Required Tools: A poetic impulse and writing utensils.
   
   Amy Lawless is the author of the poetry collections My Dead (2013) and Broadax (2017), both from Octopus Books. With Chris Cheney, she is the author of the hybrid book I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected from Pioneer Works Press' Groundworks Series (2016). Her chapbook, A Woman Alone, was published by Sixth Finch in 2017. Poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry (a collaboration with Angela Veronica Wong), Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. Individual poems have appeared widely in print and online publications. Her collaborative poems have appeared in The Volta (with Chris Cheney), Pinwheel and The Common (with Angela Veronica Wong), and The Fanzine and forthcoming in Wendy’s Subway’s Ritual and Capital anthology (with Jeff Alessandrelli). She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011, and has recently taught poetry workshops at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Pioneer Works, Bowery Poetry Club, and Poets House.
   
   

yrs,

Amy

Broadax in classrooms!

Hey,  I would love to visit classrooms and chat with students about Broadax. If you're a teacher and just taught my book, I'd love to visit or video conference into classrooms!  Just shoot me an email at aelawless at gmail dot com

Some readings

I'm doing some readings in March & wanted to post them here!  I'll update this w/ links and updates

(At AWP): March 8, Tampa, Florida:  a rooftop reading  on Thursday March 8th from 8-10pm at this place called Fly with many readers  (Octopus Books, Canarium, Books, Dorothy a Publishing Project, and Nightboat Books). Other readers and Facebook event page here.

~~~West Coast Tour~~~

March 25 Seattle, WASHINGTON with with Angela Veronica Wong and Jeff Alessandrelli and Anastasia Renee

March 26 Portland, OREGON  Smallpressapalooza 2018   6-10 pm  with many

March 27  Portland, OREGON @ IPRC with with Angela Veronica Wong and Jeff Alessandrelli and Emily Kendal Frey

March 28, Oakland, CALIFORNIA with with Angela Veronica Wong and Jeff Alessandrelli and MG Roberts at Moe's Books

March 30, Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA  at the Poetic Research Bureau  with Angela Veronica Wong and Jeff Alessandrelli

review of Broadax

The wonderful rob mclennan gave a lovely review of Broadax on his blog.  Read it here.   Excerpt: Lawless writes on a variety of subjects, including her relationship with her sister during childhood, a fear of The Incredible Hulk and male rage, and observations on death, lovers and birds. Smart as hell and densely packed, this is easily her strongest work to date, and Lawless’ observations often contain the force of a punch, yet manage to impact without overwhelm. While some of these pieces are as raw as the bone, Lawless writes of rage from an odd distance, recording the details of dark feelings and experiences akin to a journalist embedded with the troops, with one foot on the shore even as the body might be caught up in the ensuing flood. 

Publishers Weekly Review

Thanks to Publishers Weekly for reviewing Broadax!  Read here. 😊

Reminder you can buy Broadax at Octopus Books directly or Small Press Distribution.  (It's on Amazon, but I think it benefits the press more $ to purchase from them or SPD.)↸

Argos Books 2018 Calendar

I'm thrilled to be have a poem of mine grace the month of August in Argos Books' 2018 Calendar. 
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The calendar  features poems by Holly Anderson, Ari Banias, Chia-Lun Chang, Miri Gabriel, Julia Guez, Harmony Holiday, Amy Lawless, Ricky Maldonado, Sade Murphy, Maryam Parhizkar, Brandon Shimoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and Rachael Wilson.

With cover and interior artwork by Sadie Bills.

The calendar runs in a limited edition, so please order one here & support a wonderful press, Argos Books.

tinyletter

Dear Reader,

As I reconsider my relationship to the internet, I would like to invite you to subscribe to my tinyletter.  It will be a not-more-than quarterly newsletter of links to my work, readings, and other things related to my poetry.  Archived content should remain there as well.  I will still post major things to this blog.

Subscribe here: https://tinyletter.com/amylawless

BROADAX

Greetings!

You can order my new collection of poems Broadax from Octopus Books.  In a week or two it should also be shipping from SPD, or (not preferred but I get it) Amazon.com. 



If you can support a small, independent poetry bookseller like Berl's Poetry Book Shop, please do!  It's always better to order directly from the publisher or from Small Press Distribution than from Amazon, but I am thankful that my book is available on Amazon.com.



What are you waiting for?  I'm so excited to see/hear what you think of the book.  Feel free to tweet at me @amylawless or email me at [aelawless @ gmail dot com]  to let me know how you're finding it.  Or tag me on Instagram at @amylawless 

Love,
Amy

Finalist NPS

A manuscript of mine, It Is What It Is, was a finalist for National Poetry Series. I think it's cool, even though I did not win, to share this with you. I'm super proud to be in that list of names. I'm proud of the work. Many poems appeared in my chapbook A Woman Alone. You can get that on Sixth Finch's web site. I have a lot to be thankful for.  But I guess the cat is out of the bag that I have a new, finished manuscript! Hey, it is what it is.

Class at Pioneer Works Starting in November

I'm teaching a class called "I'm Having the Best Time" on ekphrasis  (poetry writing that responds to art) and writing experiments starting in early November at Pioneer Works.  Here is a link to the description and enrollment info. If you like my writing and want to play take this class. It costs $250. Does it sound kind of fun? Well, I hope so.  Join me.

Preorder my collection

Dear Readers,

My third collection of poems Broadax is now available for preorder from Octopus Books here.

CAMP LAWLESS Starts June 4

Last year I ran an 11 week poetry workshop at the Bowery Poetry Club.  I'm thrilled to announce that it's back for its second year! We begin June 4th at noon and run all summer (with the exception of July 9th).  The details and course description lives here on Bowery Poetry's site.  And perhaps you have some questions about Camp Lawless? I'm really eager to answer any questions you might have!  Email me at aelawless @ gmail dot com