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Kiana Murphy’s Quest to Change the World
(PHOTO: DC Creative Writing Workshop) Kiana Murphy got a full scholarship to University of Wisconsin-Madison. Full disclosure: I’m the senior program director for the DC Creative Writing Workshop....
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Help This DC-based Nonprofit By Giving To The Max
(PHOTO: Katherine Frey / TWP. Each year, the DC Creative Workshop has the highest number of students who win the city-wide poetry competitions. If you’ve read my “About” page, then you know I’m the...
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Shameless Plug
Order your copies today! Drift (Willow Books, 2012) is now available. Order it from Small Press Distribution or get it directly from me: Praise for Drift: “Tender and tough, the poems in Alan King’s...
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2011 in review
Here’s what the “WordPress.com stats helper monkeys” came up with in their 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This...
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Get Ready For Split This Rock!
(PHOTO: Nancy Bratton Design) I don’t know about the other attendees, but I’m still swooning from Jan Beatty’s reading at Split This Rock 2010. That year marked the second time for the biennial...
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NPR Interview
(ARTWORK: NPR) Tuesday, I was interviewed on NPR along with Lauren Wilcox, the Washington Post Magazine reporter who wrote the cover story “Is Poetry Dead?” (the article I’m quote in). Check out the...
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Voices from the LMC
(PHOTO: JJG3 Photography) Duke Ellington's students in the Literary Media and Communications Department As part of the art faculty at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, I created the school’s...
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I got married last month!
(PHOTO: Marlene Lillian Photography) I rarely post my personal business here, unless I’m writing about literature. But I just had to share these photos taken by my friend and soon-to-be celebrity...
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I’m on the show THE POET AND THE POEM
(Marlene Lillian Photography) According to the Library of Congress’s website: The Poet and the Poem is an ongoing series of live poetry interviews at the Library of Congress with distinguished artists....
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Willow Books, The Motown Records of Book Publishing
(Courtesy of Willow Books/Aquarius Press) Started in 2007, Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press, is still in its childhood. Yet the six-year-old Detroit-based press is rapidly becoming the Motown...
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A Message from DCCWW’s Executive Director Nancy Schwalb
(PHOTO: D.C. Creative Writing Workshop) Those who can’t make this event, or who live out of the area, can support our work by visiting our donations page here. Dear friends and supporters, For the past...
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Humble Bear Production…coming soon!
Get ready for the birth of Humble Bear Production, a video production company that produces book trailers and provides services for nonprofits and businesses including video storytelling, welcome...
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Get Ready to Meet Ned Hickson…Again!
Syndicated humor columnist and author, Ned Hickson was so gracious to indulge me in this experiment – a video version of the profile I did on him a while back. He was part three in my Freshly Pressed...
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DRIFT book trailer
Here’s a trailer for my debut collection of poems, DRIFT (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2012).
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Curtis Crisler’s New Book “…Out-Schools Every School of American Poetry”
Curtis L. Crisler’s new book, “This” Ameri-Can-ah (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2016) “out-schools every school of American poetry.” That’s according to Jericho Brown, American Book Award Winner....
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A Poem Video for Poetry Publishers – #NationalPoetryMonth
I wanted to do something different for #NationalPoetryMonth. Instead of cranking out a poem a day for NaPoWriMo (short for National Poetry Writing Month), I wanted to make a video announcing my new...
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“I wanted bananas-” (an official trailer for POINT BLANK)
So, I’ve had this manuscript for three years. I sent it out and I’m still working on getting it picked up. This is another trailer for Point Blank. (Here’s the first.) Check it out!
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New Book from Alan King
Hey Blogworld, I know it’s been a while since I last posted here. With a job, new child and – NOW! – a new book to promote, it’s been hectic. I haven’t had time to do my annual blogiversary posts. I’ll...
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Point Blank Named Among the “Ten Best Poetry Books of 2016” by Beltway Poetry
I’m honored to be on this list with so many great writers. Click the Facebook post below to read the full list. Point Blank is available on Amazon. You can also find it at your local bookstore.
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New Trailer for POINT BLANK
This trailer, “Hulk,” is inspired by the poem of the same name from my new collection, POINT BLANK, which was named among the “10 Best Poetry Books of 2016” by Beltway Poetry. The narrative poems...
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