How to Avoid Click-Bait
September 30, 2014
Three Publications
August 13, 2014
I have three publications out currently. The first is a group of poems closing out a book (I believe 17 poems) called Too Much: An Anthology About Excess: Too Much The second is a project of the Literary Underground called This Is Poetry: Women of the Small Presses. It is the first of 8 volumes, and … More Three Publications
How To Be Fantastically Happy and Amazing at Everything You Do
June 3, 2014
Be someone else.
If All Rejections Were Like Journal Rejections
May 20, 2014
1. Applicant: Thank you for your resume and interview but you do not meet our needs. We do not want candidates who have brown hair or talk about Game of Thrones. You should buy our journal of applicant standards to see if you fit the standards. The Corporation 2. Dear Celia, … More If All Rejections Were Like Journal Rejections
Heather Wants to Invest $40 000
April 23, 2014
It says so on Google. I type in Heather wants and it tells me this is it. It must be the reason my dreams always end with his funeral (the one I didn’t attend) and why I pull the covers over my ears so I can’t hear the memory of him saying, “If I were … More Heather Wants to Invest $40 000
Hummdinger’s is Open
April 6, 2014
It is April and it is upstate and the small patches of melting snow might once again grow into the roads and need to be salted down before Spring begins proper. But today is finally sweatshirt weather, and tees for the brave or macho. Everyone has a dog again; everyone remembers how to ride a bike; the … More Hummdinger’s is Open
CFP [Call for People], or Call for Friend(s)
April 4, 2014
1. Be smart. Have some common or uncommon sense. Know not to stick your hand in a toaster or know the works of Chaucer. 2. Be addicted. To something. Be addicted to alcohol to drugs to work to sex to writing to reading to lists. Be addicted to not being addicted. 3. Give … More CFP [Call for People], or Call for Friend(s)
Poems
February 13, 2014
Three of my poems have been selected to run in the Literary Underground’s project “This is Poetry.” “Cicadas,” “He said something about Hemingway,” and “Scared of the Dark.” They can be found at: http://thisispoetry.tumblr.com/tagged/heather-dorn The first two have only been published in print until now. I’m very happy to have these out on the web now. … More Poems
I would rather not sleep
January 20, 2014
It’s too hot and my head isn’t ready for medication and bed. I am a brilliance. I want to be for ever/yone and I will be so swirly you will think of me like leaves in Fall that left home but tried to come back. I just want to hold on for a little bit. … More I would rather not sleep
The Legal Limit
November 18, 2013
The legal limit usually goes by the minute. And the limbic system by the hour. Paul Revere rode through my 5th grade brain and keeps riding still and again. I remember the ride of Paul Revere. And now the bar blurs in bright greens like an Irish pub in March. The legal limit usually goes … More The Legal Limit
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