…is me! So excited to be coming on as editor after years of working alongside Ruminate. Read more about my vision here.
3 Voices
Come on out to the first reading in this year’s three voices series, which features first year poets and prose writers in our MFA/MA creative writing program at Colorado State. Flier below by yours truly.
AIR Series
Review of Bin Ramke’s Missing The Moon
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.
On Being Strangers with Your Spouse
“It seems paradoxical—to revere the distance between yourself and your beloved—but this distance is what teaches us to reach rather than retreat. ”
Op-Ed: Don’t Ditch Your T.V. in My Dumpster
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
Fish or Bird Body
AIR Series: Scott Laumann
Have you heard about Ruminate’s new AIR (artist-in-residence) series? We’re excited to offer our beautiful barn to a select number of artists, providing them with the space and time to create. Our inaugural AIR reception, featuring local artist Scott Laumann, is June 28th, 7pm in the barn. We hope to see you there! More information available here.
Stay tuned for our next installment in September!
Miss the event? See some photos and read my introduction to Scott’s work at Ruminate.
June Artist of the Month
I’m honored to be Imgae Journal‘s June Artist of the month!
“Gifted newcomer Kristin George Bagdanov is a border-crosser: in her poems, she moves her needle back and forth across the gap between mind and body, heaven and earth, human and nature, human and divine, then pulls the thread tight, drawing the panels together….”
Read more and see one of my poems from Image’s 25 year anniversary issue.
Beyond the Issues: Responding to Tragedy
My thoughts on tragedy, poetry, symbol, issues, and grieving online. Ruminate.