Let’s Talk About Publishing

Looking forward to being a JackLeg Press panelist for American University’s CW program! This Washington D.C. event is free and open to the public. Join us! Saturday, October 22, 1-5 PM. Register HERE 

TBR: Fixed Star Interview by Leslie Pietrzyk

Thrilled to have FIXED STAR featured on TBR, Leslie Pietrzyk's wonderful interview series! I can't believe the official release date is this Thursday -- September 15th!

An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester (via Zoom)

 

This poetry reading hosted by The Hudson Valley Writers Center with Q&A is free and open to all. 

Swifted!

 

Swifted! Thank you so much Taylor Swift as Books for this gorgeous pairing. TSAB is my favorite Instagram account and FIXED STAR being featured is a huge thrill! Many thanks to Reb Livingston for her artwork and to JackLeg Press cover designer Richard Every. 

New Poetry Collection - FIXED STAR forthcoming from JackLeg Press!

I’m excited to share that my next poetry collection, FIXED STAR, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press! Much gratitude to JLP poetry editor Simone Muench, founding editor & director Jennifer Harris, and the entire editorial team for selecting my book. I’m so thrilled to join the JLP family of writers! 

Here are some of Simone’s comments on FIXED STAR— "The opening poem, "Cuban Polymita," from which the title Fixed Star arises, serves as the scaffolding device for Frischkorn's manuscript. Like the beautiful painted snails it references, the book, too, is a series of spirals: mainly, a pair of sonnet coronas whose recursive lines twine through the manuscript, both framing and bracing it. Navigating splits in language, geography, government, culture, and family—"My father's from Cuba. I'm American. /He wanted me to learn one language really well"—Frischkorn guides us through poems that are, contrapuntally, both luxuriant and lean.... FIXED STAR is a brilliant treatise on violence, division, loss, longing, and the search for song."