Three years ago today, I spent the #solstice writing with 31 other women into a Google doc divided into dreams, morning, noontime, afternoon, evening, night. We meant to write a #poem, but ended up writing a book. The shortest day turned out to be as deep as our lives. We dedicated it to #BernadetteMayer, who inspired.✨❄️✨

More here: https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/midwinter-constellation/

The cost of _Lyric Shame_, granted not a new #book, keeps going up for some probably bad reason, but Harvard U Press is having a 30% sale until the end of December if you plug in HOL22 at checkout. So - buy _Lyric Shame_, now only.... 40 bucks! :/. #poetry #lyric #theory #reading #shame #poetics #BernadetteMayer #AnneSexton #ElizabethBishop #Litcrit #historical #culturalanalysis
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395

There’s just nobody like Bernadette Mayer. How lucky we’ve all been. Spending the day (between cooking tasks) reading her.

Here’s an excerpt from Midwinter Day. (Photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald for NY Review of Books.)

#BernadetteMayer #MidwinterDay #poetry

Here, at UPENN's Electronic Poetry Center, are #BernadetteMayer's "List of Journal Ideas" and "Writing Experiments":

https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Mayer-Bernadette_Experiments.html

A sad day. Bernadette Mayer has died.

https://allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bernadette-mayer-1945-2022/

#BernadetteMayer #poetry #ConceptualWriting

Even now, Many more people talking about #BernadetteMayer — grieving, celebrating her life and sharing her #poems — on the birdsite than here. If you love her, lets be friends. #poetry #ExperimentalPoetry #Love

RIP, #BernadetteMayer.

"Sophia's mittens come off/
The disappearing scene from a dream I'd remember is lost/To comparisons of past exertion for the slight Main Street hill,/I blink at seeing, being seen a little/

I wonder why we write at all/These trees have seen all this before/But they are glad of an encore."

(Bernadette Mayer, _Midwinter Day_).

https://allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bernadette-mayer-1945-2022/

#BernadetteMayer

So my publisher, Black Lawrence Press, is having a sale. Some books are as low as $5!

Two of mine are included: (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) which incorporates #ClosedCaptions into many of the #poems (I’m #HoH, it comes up), and Midwinter Constellation, a poem cowritten by 32 women/nonbinary #poets as a kind of homage to #BernadetteMayer.

Lots more #SmallPress goodness to discover, including #poetry #fiction #ShortStories #novels

https://blacklawrencepress.com/sale/

I’ll put the direct links in my profile?