Author Archives: Donna de la Perrière
Women poets wearing sweatpants

DdlP with Rilke (the former Safeway parking lot cat) dressed to the nines & hard at work [text is from the poem “Penelope at the Wheel”]
What was Women Poets Wearing Sweatpants?
“A feminist intervention. A poetry journal at meme speed. An attempt to give the internet what it wanted. A critique and a joke. A joke of a critique? A lot of fun. Not enough. A pop-up virtual community that published every submission it received. A stocking stuffer advertised entirely via social media, and conceived, curated, and closed in two weeks. A commentary on the too-easy conflation of women’s artwork, physical bodies, and virtual existences. A taking-back of the reigns. A nod to Barbara Kruger. A toast to the selfie. A laugh of the Medusa. Was it snarky? Was it earnest? Was it equalizing? Was it dumb? Was it empowering? It was post by post.
—Becca Klaver
31 December 2013
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“And tell each other how we sang
To keep the dark away”
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Poem receives Pushcart nomination
My poem “Into the Silent Land
(published in New American Writing, issue 31)
has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Under the influence
Video of one of my favorite people in the whole world—former student, current friend, & stellar writer Lorelei Lee—reading my work & her own at Evan Karp’s Under The Influence series, in which writers & artists perform work by one of their major artistic influences then perform a piece of their own work that channels that influence.
(This was among the most moving experiences of my life. No joke.)
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Being born is going blind
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Sonder < as a lighted window at dusk >