Upcoming appearances
August 8: 1:30-3:30 reading at The Bowery
Pebble Lake Review's new health and illness issue includes a poem of mine: http://pebblelakereview.com/poetry/SweetSick.htm
Check out three of my poems at Sweet Lit, a super cool foodie-related lit mag. In this issue, there are also poems by Tim Seibles, Barbara Daniels, and Sarah Browning:
http://www.sweetlit.com/poem_laura_mccullough_avocados.html
My publisher, Jerry Kelly, created a micro-site for WMW that's a lot of fun: http://xoxoxpress.com/whatmenwant click on the fingers to read a poem
Read my chapbook of prose poems ELEPHANT ANGER at http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/mudlark32/contents.html#Contents
Reading in the "My new Life, my new poem," Woodbridge County poetry festival at the Baron Arts Center.
WHAT MEN WANT
My second collection of poetry has just been released from XOXOX Press. http://www.amazon.com/What-Men-Want-Laura-McCullough/dp/1880977265/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231121601&sr=8-1 or contact Jerry Kelly at http://xoxoxpress.com/
Here's what Hilda Raz, Denise Duhamel, and Kurt Raz had to say:
The poet Laura McCullough is fearless, open hearted, and brilliant. Now in WHAT MEN WANT she’s written a masterpiece. These poems are certain of the ways power flows in a world of privilege, violence, and inequity and they offer stunning insights. They engage male/female negotiations – through sex (“Every man wants a blow job”), compassion, and love; they invoke our partners, lovers, sons, friends. They are poems apparently spoken by a goddess, the kinds of poems that everyone surely needs right now. - Hilda Raz
In What Men Want, Laura McCullough elbows Sigmund Freud and winks. Her poems are witty and barbed, but they are also tender, full of candor, echoing James Wright. This is a book of audacious love poems,
gutsy pronouncements, accounts of unabashed desire. McCullough crisscrosses personal accounts and societal expectations—she is a bombshell dropping bombshells. --Denise Duhamel
The great divide between men and women: how to cross it? What do men want? is a question Laura McCullough asks in her courageous and wide-ranging new book of poems. But the question soon takes on larger philosophical proportions: what divides us in general, what do any of us want, and why do we want it? Which amounts to an even more fundamental question: what is the nature of desire, and how can we control it? Or rather: how does it control us? Corollary to these questions are themes involving family, compassion, surrender, loss, violence, and suppressed love. In poems of formal grace and searching intelligence, McCullough confronts the mystery of otherness again and again in husbands, strangers, and sons. Nothing deters this poet from asking the questions she needs to ask in order to crack “the man-code” if she can, and emerge in sympathy on the other side. — Kurt Brown
NEW WORK OF MINE JUST OUT
Read my review of Andre Dubus IIIs book, THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS here: http://wdsreviewofbooks.webdelsol.com/Dubus.html
I interviewed Andre last June right after the book came out and that interview is forthcoming in AWP's The Writer's Chronicle.
Four new poems from PANIC, REDBANK are in the new issue of Riverbabble at http://www.iceflow.com/riverbabble/Welcome.html Just page down to the poetry section.
One new one from the same new ms is in the winter issue of Hotel Amerika, a classy mag, I must say, with a unique format.
Joe Milford interviewed me. Come listen to Joe's current guest at: http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/
And check out his archives to hear my interview and tons of others suchh as Stephen Dunn, Matt Hart, Tony Hoagland and a ton of other great poets!
A new issue of Forklift, Ohio is out! I've got work in it along with a lot of other edgey writers. When you check out the site, make sure to look at The Management: some great thinkers and writers. http://www.hubcapart.com/ink/
My essay on Tony Hoagland's work in The Potomac, journal of art and politics can be found here: http://thepotomacjournal.com/review-TonyHoagland.htm
It's a really interesting issue, so check out the other essays and poems, and more!
New pieces of short fiction of mine at: http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue8/np-Laura.htm
Bio:
Laura McCullough’s second collection of poems, WHAT MEN WANT, is published by XOXOX Press with blurbs by Hilda Raz, Denise Duhamel, and Kurt Brown, and her third, SPEECH ACTS, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. Her first, now out of print, THE DANCING BEAR, debuted in 06 with jacket blurbs by Stephen Dunn, Li-young Lee, and BJ Ward. In 07, Mudlark published her chapbook of prose poems, ELEPHANT ANGER, and she won her second NJ State Arts Council Fellowship, this time in poetry; the first was in prose. She has an MFA in fiction from Goddard College. She's attended, the Catskill Poetry Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the San Juan Workshops, the Summer Solstice Writers Conference, went to Bread Loaf 2x, once as part of the Social Staff, attended the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Spoon River, Guernica, Crab Orchard Review, Tusculum Review, Hanging Loose, Pebble Lake Review, The Hiram Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Iron Horse Quarterly, The Hiss Quarterly, The Pedestal, The Potomac, Nimrod, Boulevard, Tattoo Highway, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Hotel Amerika, Poetry East, The Portland Review, and others. Her book reviews have appeared in such places at Webdelsol Review of Books, The Potomac, and Small Spiral Notebook.
Contact: hellm2@comcast.net or be in touch on facebook
Books of Poetry:
SPEECH ACTS forthcoming Black Lawrence Press http://blacklawrencepress.homestead.com/about.html
WHAT MEN WANT 2008 XOXOX Press http://xoxoxpress.com/
ELEPHANT ANGER (chapbook of prose poems) 2007 Mudlark http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/mudlark32/contents.html
THE DANCING BEAR 2006 Open Book Press http://www.openbookpress.com/
Links to work online:
Podcasts Fishouse, 2River
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/laura_mccullough/index.shtml
http://www.2river.org/blog/2005/12/podcast-of-poems-by-laura-mccu.html
Interviews with me online:
By Adam Elenbass of Reality Sandwich
http://www.realitysandwich.com/what_men_want_interview_laura_mccullough
Interviews I’ve conducted:
With Bob Hicok for Small Spiral Notebook
http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/interviews/2007/04/laura_mccullough_interviews_bo.shtml
With Matt Hart for Small Spiral Notebook
http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/interviews/2007/01/laura_mccullough_interviews_ma.shtml
Reviews online
Of Li-young Lee’s “Book of My Nights” and BJ Ward’s “Gravedigger’s Birthday”
http://www.webdelsol.com/InPosse/mccullough15.htm
Of Major Jackon’s “Hoops” http://www.majorjackson.com/hoops_rev_ssn.html
Online journals:
Poetry
http://www.versedaily.org/2008/atthejumps.shtml
http://2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/mccullough.html
http://www.versedaily.org/2006/argueregret.shtml
http://www.umbrellajournal.com/summer2008/poetry/LauraMcCullough.html
http://www.stickmanreview.com/V6N1/contents/mccullough3.html
http://www.rocksaltplum.com/RSPSpring2006/LauraMcCullough.html
http://home.alltel.net/ellablue/mccullough1.html
http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/mudlark32/contents.html
http://www.diodepoetry.com/v1n1/content/mccullough_l.html
http://www.softblow.com/mccullough.html
http://www.spokenwar.com/broek0.html
http://42opus.com/v5n4/moment
http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=743
Prose
http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/654/plastic_jade/