by McKenzie | Mar 3, 2013 | Blog, Literary Scene
Tonight, like every other night, I come to the same conclusion: The Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, and their Poets in Print series, never disappoint. This evening, beginning at 7pm, the KBAC introduced Tyler Mills and Brynn Saito, both with their first collections...
by McKenzie | Feb 27, 2013 | Blog, Literary Scene
Tuesday evening, I planned on attending what looked to be an interesting reading. . . but what it turned out to be was an inspirational, uplifting and hilarious multigenre experience. The event was titled “After Dancing: Dancers Turn to Writing,” and for...
by McKenzie | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog, Literary Scene
It’s about that time again—the act of road-tripping across a series of states, taking large sums of money for a range of books, getting those books signed by authors, seeing those authors read, attending a diverse set of panels that delve into various...
by McKenzie | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog, My Poems
The air is filled with mist, yet a transparent mist, a ...
by McKenzie | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog, My Poems
It only takes a moment, and then her body burns, the skin lifting away in the shape of leaves—an oak, a willow branch, a maple— as if she’s known this language for years. She is screaming, she is speaking in tongues, she is a woman lost in dreams....
by McKenzie | Jan 29, 2013 | Blog, My Poems
There was a moment when I thought of you, and I longed for water. Two black pitchers laid on the ground in the shadow of what must have been an old well. Their two mouths were crusted with the last snowfall’s ice. Their mouths like two ovals learning how to...
