#danielle susi

[chenchenwrites]

Thanks to Danielle Susi for interviewing me for the Dinnerview feature over at Entropy. Shout-out to Sam Herschel Wein for the duck. You know which duck. And to Jennifer S. Cheng for reminding me of a summertime favorite. And had I answered these questions a little later in the summer, I would've also mentioned Michelle Lin and all the congee <3

[susanthejournal]

SELF-PORTRAIT AS DEAD CAT I PASS ON THE HIGHWAY / Danielle Susi

Two days before I bleed I hate Myself. Blame it on molecular Shift or shedding. Shrug Away a layer. Cream and Calico, my body separated Coffee. Slow trudge of Buttered dawn slipping From the ghost-lipped Mouth of the mountains. Stain In the sky like a blood veil. Or That could be my own drowning Eyes. Always seeing red. Rage Like rust, eating. I want another word For decay, for the thing the body does To itself. I let myself rot From the inside first, languishing In all its agitation. Simply dying To escape from every cavity. ⁂ Danielle Susi is the author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (dancing girl press, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Knee-Jerk Magazine, Hobart, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her full-length manuscript A River Always Ends at a Mouth, has been selected as a semi-finalist for both the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize at Persea Books and the Hudson Prize at Black Lawrence Press. She received her MFA in writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Utah.

[greatlakesfilm]

Poet Mary Biddinger to Read at Penn State Behrend April 20

Poet Mary Biddinger to Read at Penn State Behrend April 20

Reading marks final edition of the 2016-17 Creative Writers Reading Series  The best comedians root their humor in honesty and truthful self-reflection. Poet Mary Biddinger succeeds with the same approach. “(Her) poems are jarring and honest, and so many of the lines reach out to push you, two-handed across the chest,” wrote Danielle Susi in a 2015 review of Biddinger’s collection, “A Sunny Place…

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[therumpus]

As my husband’s always saying to me: literature is about the long game, not the short game (what that means in terms of sports I have no idea). But I think he means that as a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I’m sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.

The Rumpus Interview with Danielle Dutton.

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I can only imagine that the isolation I felt as a teenager—when nobody was all that dependent on computers—would be exacerbated by growing up in a time when everyone is simultaneously more cut off from human interaction and more constantly in touch with each other. When I was thirteen, there were moments of such pleasant loneliness. I wonder whether that exists when there’s always a way to check in on the whereabouts of your friends.

The Rumpus Interview with Louisa Hall.

[dailydoseoflit]

Double Dose Poem: Danielle Susi

Well fell hard for Danielle Susi's poems. So here's another one for you this week.

Some Pain is More Important than Other Pain

We hand baskets to families who suffer for Flor de Caña where the water is sugar cane poison and watermelons bloom overnight like teenage girls Fried plantain bumps up against burning trash Tortillas molded in flying saucers over fire and I can’t tell whether it is the sun that is hotter or the rippled air above the pan The salt is pulled from my blood…

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Poem: Danielle Susi

A poem that smolders from Danielle Susi.

Burn

I watched you push yourself in front of that train. And I grabbed you. Reached out with my long arm. Made you conductive like the rails. Made you carbon held against the post to be burned. So that some smoldering smoke might spread. I saw you jump from that roof but never touch down. Burning on this loose battery terminal. Hem of your skirt melting, copper wire bone-wrapped. I lit you so…

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Reader Profile: Danielle Susi

Danielle Susi is the author of the chapbook The Month in Which We Are Born (Dancing Girl Press). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Knee-Jerk Magazine, Hobart, The Rumpus, Lines+Stars, DIALOGIST, and Midway Journal, among many others. She curates and hosts the Six Points Reading Series through the Poetry Center of Chicago and recently, Newcity named her among the Top 5 Emerging Chicago Poets.

You can read more about Danielle at her website, right here. We're so excited to have her reading at Marble Room XVI, 2pm, at Uncharted Books! See you there, right?