Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein

Poet (MFA, The New School) and classically trained soprano (BS, Mannes), Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein is the founding editor of SOUND - a literary magazine on contemporary musico-poetics, co-creator/editor of DIORMA - a poetry and collaborative music salon, and a staff writer for Luna Luna Magazine where she writes on contemporary dance, literature, and society. Her chapbook, Quiet, was selected by Matthea Harvey as The New School’s 2012 Chapbook Contest winner for poetry. This October her libretto will be featured in the premier of composer Jonathan Dawe’s fractal operatic retelling of Tamburlaine - a story of hunger, remorse, and redemption.

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Dammit, I love Dawn Upshaw

Always good to see classical singers up close.

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Obviously, this is the MOST adorable. Neruda will be hitting a couple Tin House seminars with me today for sure. Thanks for being my kind of being, Tweetspeak!

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SUBMIT TO SOUND MAGAZINE!

Sure, SOUND Magazine is about contemporary musico-poetics, but that doesn't mean you have to be a poet with some special knowledge of music! HELLS NO! You just have to care about your poetry! SUBMIT NOW to be a part of our launch issue! We'd love to hear from you!

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Luna Luna - a girly magazine for the modern, intellectual girl who wears black glitter polish and hangs out in the desert. Fuckyeah.

I cannot wait to blog for this new magazine. It's got an amazing line-up of blogger-writers, and an innovative founding editor - Lisa Marie Basile. Keep an eye out for my Wednesday blogs! Probs my first will be about cunnilingus in female-artist rap songs.

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Always so thankful to have spent time with this amazing woman.

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Sarah Fox's The First Flag

What's that? You say you love mystical feminist poetry with astrological charts and pictures and vaginas and antlers that's, like, way too accessible to be poetry and is fucking brilliant? Yeah, I thought so. Read this immediately.

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Yes.

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WHAT?? Oregon, I love you.

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IPRC's fundraiser last night included Literary Mix Tape, $4 IPA, a raffle, and BINGO! Guys...drunk bingo is the best fundraiser game. Seriously. Kristin won this sweet travel typewriter (and gave it to me 'cause of our love and all that), and I won a hand-picked pack of LITTLE ZINES! Yes, they are all teeny, and you know how I love teeny. There's even one in German that is highly inappropriate.

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YouTube randomly pulled this video up for me while I was listening to some Philip Glass. Funny, cause Deanna and I did undergrad together (light lyric coloraturas represent!). Here she is doing a master class last Feb with Joyce DiDonato. Watch it. Learn awesome stuff. Hear beautiful music.

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It's a Sunday in April, which means it's the perfect time to record a poem for the Poetry Foundation's Soundcloud page. Awesome idea, guys.

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2 Poems with Prick of the Spindle

The house understands...

Levee, someone once told you...

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The incomparable Lynn Xu at last night's Bad Blood.

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My Dead. Amy Lawless. Octopus. Do it.

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josephquintela:

Flirt a WORKING DEFINITIONS animation by Gabriel Don, Liz Axelrod, and Joseph A. W. Quintela

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brunch.books.breasts.

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Ok, so I guess this puts the never ending 2nd Ave line that seems will never exist into perspective. This one's for the LIRR, but I expect the two resemble each other.