New review of Fossils is up at Ecotheo:
the poems function at the height of their powers in a space where direct visceral experience of the page bypasses the barriers of rational exegesis. For all their intellectual demands, ultimately these poems ask you to interact with them deeply as physical, tangible things, as real as a stone trilobite in your hand.
–Dina Strasser
Read the rest here.
I’m thrilled to have poems in the winter / spring issues of Grist Journal, Puerto Del Sol (The Science Issue), and Superstition Review (you can read that one online here). Check out these fantastic issues and support these journals by picking up a copy.
[update: I’ve been elected! Thanks for your support!]
I’ve been nominated for the Graduate Student Liaison role at ASLE (Association for Literature and the Environment) and would love your support! Current ASLE members can vote in the election until. Dec. 1. Check your emails or ASLE accounts for the link. Below is my statement. You can read the other candidates’ statements here.
Kristin George Bagdanov, University of California, Davis
We have all chosen to study literature and the environment because we believe that close and sustained attention to the world and its representations matters. And judging by the conferences I’ve attended in Moscow and Detroit, it is clear that the energy, collaboration, and criticism fostered by ASLE can effect change. As a third-year English PhD student at U.C. Davis who studies ecopoetics, I rely on the inspiration gleaned from ASLE on those days when theory feels very far from praxis. As graduate student liaison, I will help cultivate the ASLE community and the future of environmental scholarship by creating more opportunities for graduate students to collaborate with one another. Having started my studies in ecopoetics as a poet in Colorado State University’s MFA program, I am especially interested in strengthening ties between creative writers and literary critics, who have so much to learn from one another in terms of method, archive, and action. I also hope to create more workshops and reading groups for graduate students between conferences, expanding and strengthening the network of environmental scholarship across disciplines. As a scholar, poet, editor, and teacher with a background in non-profit development, I am equipped to manage both the logistical and creative tasks required of me in this role. An added bonus: since the ASLE 2019 conference will be at U.C. Davis, I’ll be able to tailor the graduate student conference experience to our specific campus and community. Find out more about my work at kristingeorgebagdanov.com or on Twitter: @KristinGeorgeB.
A Review of Jamaal May’s HUM (Alice James Books, 2013)
Read my review of Jamaal May’s Hum over at 32 Poems.
Excerpt:
The repeated image of the needle invites the reader to investigate how such objects, and the places and people they represent, become patterns that bind together that which frays. This collection asks: What can be salvaged from a city or a person that has been punctured, dragged, forgotten? A needle can mend a wound or open a vein. A needle can also translate the grooves of a record into song; needles can bring “light through drawn blinds” and “wind through a window’s failing”; “old factories needle / into the sky” (“The Hum of Zug Island”).
My latest review for Colorado Review:
“The title of this collection encapsulates the way these poems combine honest vulnerability with an almost unraveled, or unraveling, sense of urgency for the self and the world—as if in poetry we are only able to barely eek out the poem before the stakes shift and the poem with it, the poet trailing off behind.”
Please join Ruminate Magazine for our second installment in the AIR (artist-in-residence) series, which features
Casey Underwood and Judith Deem Dupree. 
My review of Bin Ramke’s forthcoming collection, Missing the Moon (October 2014, Omnidawn), is up at Colorado Review. Best book of poetry I’ve read in a long time.
Check out my Op-Ed in the Coloradoan about dumpster delinquency.
Sadly they were quite link delinquent, so all of the useful recycling links embedded in the article are broken.
Here’s the main one you need for Fort Collins:
http://www.fcgov.com/recycling/centers.php
My thoughts on tragedy, poetry, symbol, issues, and grieving online. Ruminate.
As Fundraising Director for Ruminate Magazine, I’d like to invite you to view (and bid on!) the 45 pieces of 7×7 inch artwork in our Jubilee online art auction. The auction will close September 14, 2013 at 8pm, during the Jubilee Dinner celebration in Fort Collins.
I’ve spent this summer talking to amazing artists–many of whom are past Ruminate contributors–and would like nothing more than for you to also be stunned by their creations, which they made and donated just for this auction.
Contact me with any questions at kristin(at)ruminatemagazine(dot)com.