The Writers' Block
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A weekly podcast featuring writers of all stripes reading from their recent work.
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Stephanie Young reads selections from her poem "Age of the Mercenary," one of the pieces included in her new book Telling the Future Off.
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About "Age of the Mercenary"
Stephanie Young's long awaited debut, Telling the Future Off, ensnares the reader in a loop of theatrical-sets, filtered through the obsessive-compulsive call and response of self-help tag-lines. It's 3:30 at the office and the landscape is all twisted up in the bedsheets, littered with car radios, eyeshadow and circuit training. In the distance, the internet drones. Telling the Future Off is built of the poetry of Today, of realism colliding with the dream-state. In it, Young questions and she answers but never does she waver. When she asks, "Am I tough enough?" The unanimous answer is Yes. Published by Tougher Disguises Press (at tougherdisguises.com).
Stephanie Young lives in Oakland and works at Mills College, but she's also a resident of the internet, and you can find her there at The Well Nourished Moon (at stephanieyoung.org). The Well Nourished Moon is part of a constantly expanding community of blogs written by poets across the U.S. (and internationally) including Jim Behrle, Anne Boyer, Allen Bramhall, Jordan Davis, Nada Gordon, Kate Greenstreet, David Hess, Lisa Jarnot, Kyle Kaufman, Pamela Lu, Jonathan Mayhew, Catherine Meng, Kasey Mohammad, and many, many more. Hundreds more in fact -- hundreds of overlapping conversations about misunderstood and overused terms such as 'ear' (i.e. "Poet B has a terrific ear!"), hot arguments over irony, form, and the marketing of poetry books, mysterious curiosities such as Flarf, group recordings of dreams, reviews of new books, and more collected information about contemporary poetry than you'll find in any textbook.
Stephanie is a board member at Small Press Traffic (at sptraffic.org), San Francisco's 30-year-old literary arts center. She also hosted a popular series of poetry readings at her house in Oakland for several years, and is the editor of BAY POETICS, an anthology of local writing due out from Faux Press (at fauxpress.com) in early 2006. Her writing has been published in the local and illustrious webzine Shampoo (at shampoopoetry.com), Mirage #4/Period(ical), edited by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy, Five Fingers Review, Cypress Magazine, LIT and Combo.
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