2 collab pieces in Trash Wonderland Creature? Critter? Cryptid? Issue Out Now

Never Angeline Nørth and I have two little weirdos in the latest issue of TRASH WONDERLAND: Creature? Critter? Cryptid?

We were so excited for this little baby we whipped up “IN WHICH A SEX CHANGE SURGEON IS CAUGHT ON FILM IN A BLURRY PHOTO LATER MAILED TO A FRINGE NEWSPAPER.”

Give it a read, along with “COMMON BEHAVIORS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS TRANSSEXUAL, AN UNFINISHED ESSAY BY HARRY BENJAMIN I THINK” and all the other weird little friends we made along the way.

Thanks to editor Kit Lascher for supporting our weird little project with theirs!

a sketchy mothman in black on a pink background with text reading Creature? Critter? Cryptid? Out October 31st transwonderland.com

Cafe Muse Online: reading tonight

M. Mack and the 2024 Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition, Hosted by Cathy Hailey.

June 3, 2024

7:30 pm

Event information is here.

Registration is listed at the link above, but as we get closer to the reading, email me for the Zoom link at mxmackpoet at gmail.

Last year, I was lucky enough to judge the Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition. This year, I get to read alongside the 2024 winners!

Event poster for reading listing the date, title, and names of Mack, Cathy, and the 2024 judge Michelle Garcia

Mack at Fall for the Book in Fairfax, VA

Fall For The Book, the best literary festival in the world (what?), is starting, and many of my life roles come together! Here is a schedule of where I will be in the next week in official capacity as author, gallery curator, and small press editor.
Sunday, September 25, 3:00 p.m.
Sherwood Center: 3740 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA.
Gazing Grain Press book launch for Brianna Low’s Drift, also featuring Kelly Lorraine Andrews
Wednesday, September 28, 3:00 p.m.
Fenwick Library, GMU campus, Fairfax
main reading room (2001)
Call and Response Artist and Writers’ Discussion
The gallery show, an annual exhibition from the School or Art and the MFA program in creative writing, is up in Fenwick Gallery (in the new wing, on the first floor, by the circulation desk) from today until October 30. This year we’ve put our collaborative show together in conversation with The 100th Meridian Project, an interdisciplinary arts and science performance, which will be happening on Thursday the 29th at 7:30 p.m. in Harris Theater.
Friday, September 30, 7:00 p.m.
Epicure Café, 11104 Lee Hwy, Fairfax, VA 22030
Poets Night Out with M. Mack, J.K. Daniels, and Nancy K. Pearson
This event means the world to me. Dream come true.
And finally, I will also definitely be attending ***PATRICIA HILL COLLINS*** on Tuesday the 27th at 1:30 pm in Research 163 and Natalie Diaz and Oliver Bendorf on Thursday the 29th at 6:00 p.m. at George’s in the Johnson Center (both on GMU Fairfax campus).

TRAVELING now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!

large-cover-travelingYesterday was Traveling‘s book birthday at Hyacinth Girl Press. It was a very fun day of celebrating this weird little baby of gender exploration here on Earth and in the greater astral plane.

I am beyond thrilled with the cover and design of this chapbook. Tess Wilson did the editorial work. She is amazing. Huge thanks to her and Margaret Bashaar. The book and cover design is by Sarah Reck, and the cover art is by Tristin Miller.

You can hear me read from the title sequence here. Sequences from the chap are available online at Menacing Hedge and Wicked Alice.

Traveling is now available for order!

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfive/traveling.html

Three poems from Imaginary Kansas at Melancholy Hyperbole

melancholy hyperboleThree poems from Imaginary Kansas, forthcoming from dancing girl press in spring/summer 2015 went up at Melancholy Hyperbole: Poetry About Longing on March 12. I love longing. Well, my poems love longing. Or, I’ve always said that Imaginary Kansas fragments and queers longing. So.

The micro-poems featured are “[In this one, I imagine myself as a],” “Why can’t we be married and live in the farmhouse your parents bought on a whim?,” and “Undressing in front of your photograph in the evening.” These are some of the tiniest fragments in the project and, especially in the case of “Why can’t we…” some of my (terrifying) favorites. I’m really excited by the format of Melancholy Hyperbole, which invites direct commenting from readers. What a thrill!