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Updated list of online publications

Looks like it's high time I compiled an updated list of my poems available online....  There are new ones to add since I last did this, plus, regrettably, some links listed before that no longer work.


Eight Poems (with recordings)
How to Become a Raft
Two Poems (plus a review): Becoming Double, & Flight of Starlings
In Both Hands
Three Poems: Cracking Time, And These Are My Fears, My Grown-up Mother
Teleology
Gloria
Split-Flap Display
Yours Sincerely, Loneliness (This one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize - my thanks to the editors of The Cider Press Review!)
Virginia's Walking Stick
Grief in the Partitive
Four Postcards (see Postcardese issue in archives)
Two Poems: You in this Field, Where I Have Pulled Over my Bike, & The Edge of Everything
Four Poems: Disembody, As Yet Unnamed, As If the End Were in Sight, & What Remains (Finalist poems in 2014 Raed Leaf International Poetry Contest)

There is also video of me reading four poems (Taking My Leave, Light, West Stockbridge 1941, and Christmas in Puerto Angel) here.

Mobius, The Poetry Magazine, has published the first of three poems of mine that will be in their Migration issue:

"How to Become a Raft" can be found at http://mobiuspoetry.org/2015/12/01/mobius-the-poetry-magazine-how-to-become-a-raft-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/

Enjoy!

New prose poem online

Here's a new piece for your reading pleasure! A prose poem, published on the Silver Birch Press site, as part of their "My Sweet Word" series.  Enjoy!

"Gloria"

Berkshire Choreography Project collaboration

This has been a new angle on writing poetry for me! For the last two weeks, I've been working with choreographers and dancers in a collaborative project. One of the choreographers has developed dance inspired by my poems, while I've written new poems for four others inspired by their dances - or, more precisely, created as partners for their dances. Two of them wanted poems that would be read before their dances, as introductions and mood-setters; two wanted me to read a poem afterwards, as conclusions and/or "translations." A fascinating kind of commissioned work - writing to others' obsessions, as it were, and finding their intersection with my own....

The project concludes with two informal showings/readings, Friday 8/21 and Saturday 8/22, at 7:30 PM at the Berkshire Music School, Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield MA.

Poems spotlighted in Reiter's Block column

Thanks to Jendi Reiter for this lovely write-up of my chapbook, Everywhere at Once, with two of the poems reprinted. Both are poems that will also be in my upcoming full-length book, What We're Made Of, due out next summer from the Cherry Grove imprint of Word Tech Publications.

http://www.jendireiter.com/2015/06/10/chapbook-spotlight-two-poems-from-lisken-van-pelt-duss-everywhere-at-once/

A new online publication - and an exciting announcement!

I'm happy to provide a link to a new online poem, in an ezine called here/there.  They put a call out for poems with a transatlantic theme - and having grown up transatlantically, I sent them one called "Split-Flap Display."  Here's the link: 

http://here-there-poetry.co.uk/web/liskin-van-pelt-dus/

Then, in even more exciting news, I just signed a contract for a full-length book with Word Tech, under their Cherry Grove imprint.  The book's called What We're Made Of, and is a lyric manuscript.  It's made semi-finalist or finalist status in several contests, but now it's finally going to be in print.  Tentative publication date is May 2016.