Steve Kistulentz

This week is the final week of new work at Reb Livingston and Molly Arden’s vivacious (my inner Muhammad Ali wants to call it vivacious and flirtatious and bodacious) No Tell Motel. Fittingly, the featured poet is Jill Alexander Essbaum, who has been featured there three times previously. I’m writing today to publicly acknowledge my gratitude towards all things No Tell Motel-related.

The concept behind the site is simple: each week, the editors posted new poems, one per day, by a single poet. It’s a tribute to Reb and Molly and their editorial sense and their evangelism about new poets and poetry that their work introduced me to folks like Jason Bredle, Adam Deutsch, Gary McDowell, Jessica Piazza, and so many others.

…or in other words, Michael Krutel, poetry editor of Akron’s own Barn Owl Review, interviews me about all things Biblical, canonical, poetical, and hypothetical (including my own Catholicism!), online now at http://www.barnowlreview.com/kistulentz_interview.html.

Maybe the Pacific Coast Highway isn’t everyone’s panacea, as the song by Joe Pernice suggests. But on Tuesday, June 21, it will be the home of some darn fine poetry. Thanks to the good folks at Red Hen Press, I’ll be reading at the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica on Tuesday, June 21 [...]

There’s a question-and-answer with me up on HipsterBookClub.com today wherein I discuss answers to the burning questions that inquiring minds want to know. Thanks very much to MeLaina Evans, Yennie Cheung, and all the fine folks at a great literary website.

A half-dozen burning questions? A half-dozen rollicking answers. A half-dozen burning questions? A half-dozen rollicking answers. Julianna Baggott calls it talking “smart smack,” and I take that as the highest compliment. Read about obsessions, John Hughes, air guitar, and the writing life here:

Join me Sunday, February 20, at 3PM CENTRAL TIME on the Mississippi Arts Hour, as I talk about my new book THE LUCKLESS AGE. http://amplify.com/u/aqthg http://amplify.com/u/bqthh

I’ll be signing copies of THE LUCKLESS AGE tonight at 5PM at Lemuria Books, which you can find here; the signing will be followed by a short reading. Hope to see you there.

A couple of very nice mentions of the book this week from friends near and far… First, from a former student Nell Knox, a very solid review on the website of Jackson, Mississippi, bookseller Lemuria Books. Lemuria is to me one of the best things about Jackson, a true independent where every single member of [...]

My first teaching job was as an instructor at the DC-area’s The Writer’s Center. So I’m particularly honored to be featured today on their blog, First Person Plural, where they let me ramble on a bit about how The Luckless Age came to be, and what that title and book mean to me. Check it out here.

Today I’m officially in the Hen House, as it’s the official beginning of THE LUCKLESS AGE.

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