Looking for Steve? He's slated to arrive April 28! Pre-order Alabama Steve for $10 at Barnes & Noble here.
My 2007 chapbook, Scorpionica, is available for $8 at New Michigan Press.
One of my poems ("My 3rd am Appointment with the University's Writer in Residence") appears in Spoken Word Revolution Redux (Sourcebooks, 2007). Aside from the usual slam suspects (including moi), the Book/CD combo also features Viggo Mortensen, Jeff Tweedy, Billy Corgan, Ted Kooser, Billy Collins, Mark Strand, the fabulous Simone Muench with "Tom Waits, I Hate You," and--get this--Ethan Hawke reading Gregory Corso! Buy it here.
Tina's Fine-Ass Lingerie was recorded live at the Electric Lounge in 1998. This CD features two of my earliest spoken-word success stories: "The Fat Artists" and "Thong Underwear Poem." I was 20 years-old at the time this was recorded; you can still hear my Texas accent! Gotta love it. It also features classic spoken-word by Ernie Cline, Wammo, Genevieve Van Cleve, Susan B. A. Somers-Willet, Phil West, Mike Henry, and Hillary Thomas. For $12, this is a must-have item! Buy it here
Check out the 2004 documentary, Rhapsodists: Women Rewritten, directed by Goldie Jones. The film features fifteen female spoken-word artists, including Celena Glenn, Marty McConnell, Karyna McGlynn, Christina Nation, and Lynne Procope. Buy it here
Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry is a great anthology of slam poems, essays and interviews about various aspects of slam poetry. It features an interview with the 1999 Austin slam team (of which I was a member) about the process of writing & performing group pieces. Buy it here
The Phonetic Four
Check out the cool comic book cover depicting crime-fighting versions of the 1998 Austin Slam Team (Ernie Cline, Karyna McGlynn, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Genevieve Van Cleve). That's me in the black catsuit as Das Umlaut! Poems guaranteed to make you able to leap over tall buildings with a single bound. Price: 5.00 Buy it here
From Page to Stage and Back Again
This anthology features my poem "A Comfortable Daughter." The best page anthology of National Poetry Slam material yet! 132 pages, perfect bound, containing work by over fifty of the most dynamic writers alive today. Each poem was performed at the National Poetry Slam, 2003 in Chicago in some capacity. Some were in actual competition, some were "command performances" at special readings and some were late night deliveries in bars and hotels around the city. And some were performed spontaneously on the street, for a cabbie, or in the El Train! ISBN 1-893972-11-9 Price: 12.00 Buy it here