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AWP conference

Panel - Saturday, 3:00-4:15 p.m Rooms 301, 302 Colorado Convention Center, Street Level S198. A Chorus of Hauntings: Giving Breath to Ghosts. (Deborah Poe, Cole Swensen, Jake Adam York, Brandon Shimoda, Selah Saterstrom, Claudia Smith)

This panel consists of fiction, poetry, and hybrid-genre writers whose literary work is deeply invested in meditations on ghosts and hauntings. The panel considers how writers negotiate history and human experience, illuminating what traces of violence, fragmented identity, collective guilt, memory, grief, and memorial mean for writing. This chorus of hauntings embodies the persistent presence of history as it asks difficult questions about lessons the "spirit world" might attempt to pass on.

Story Up
My story "Apple" is online at ekleksographia, the flash fiction issue edited by Mary Miller. There are also stories by Lydia Copeland, Kim Chinquee, Jeff Landon, Jennifer Pieroni....
Translated
How To Catch A Good Girl is up at Minimal Books.
Books to read
My editors' new books. Kathleen Rooney's For You, I am Trilling These Songs and Kevin Sampsell's A Common Pornography
Nice Blogging
I found a nice blogging about Put Your Head In My Lap