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I don’t use this account anymore, but if you’re interested in what I’ve been up to you can check out my website! I also have a newsletter! Hope you’re doing okay <3

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this looks like a set designer's drawing for a dining room for the movie titanic, but this is actually where I'm performing tonight with Daniel Ari. We're doing some traveling stories for Bay Area Generations #42 - Feb 27 - The Bellevue Club, Oakland. Starts at 7. Hope to see you. 

Bay Area Generations Show #42 Monday, February 27th, 2017 A curated selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets, writers and storytellers, featuring: Shiloh Johnston + Joel Landmine Maureen Hurley + John Oliver Simon Karla Clark + Hugh Behm-Steinberg Cassandra Dallett + Fred Dodsworth Daniel Ari + Alexandra Naughton Jennifer Blowdryer + Keeley Ann Finn Joanna Anabo + Sean Labrador Y Manzano Teresa Poore + Eleanor Vincent Natalie Devora + Jenee Darden MUSICAL GUEST Annah Anti-Palindrome CURATORS Sarah Kobrinsky (Guest); Sherry Wilson + Amos White at The Bellevue Club in Oakland 525 Bellevue Ave., Oakland, CA. Doors: 6:30 p.m. Show: 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation, $7 With chapbook, $10 *No one turned away for lack of funds.* Bay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013, over 200 hundred notable authors, poets, writers, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories, or performed at this celebrated literary salon.

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New interview up on Cosmonauts Avenue!

http://cosmonautsavenue.com/tiny-spills-alexandra-naughton/

Favorite lyric: Just thought, “and I don’t want the world to see me cuz I don’t think that they’d understand” but that’s definitely not it. Probably something from Ol Dirty Bastard, “you worms wanna play in my dirt!?”

Guilty literary pleasure: Reading the Dr. Bronner’s magic soap bottle in the shower.

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chocolate cake

I'm at the laundromat doing laundry and waiting for the laundry to dry in the dryer and I take a walk to the coffee shop nearby where I sometimes go while I'm doing laundry and I order a large cup of coffee and the guy behind the counter is like "would you like a complimentary slice of cake" and I'm like "wow sure, thank you" and he's like "chocolate or white" so I say chocolate and the guy waiting for his coffee next to me says "hey how come you didn't offer me a slice of cake" and the guy behind the counter is like "would you like a slice a cake" and the guy waiting for his coffee says "no it's okay just wondering why you didn't offer me a slice but I understand" and I'm just standing here waiting for my coffee and I don't even really want the slice of cake I'm probably just going to take it home and put it in my fridge and like maybe have it later or share it with somebody but whatever I get my cup of coffee and a take out container with the cake and as I'm walking out of the coffee shop I pass by the other customer who was making a fuss about the cake and I say to him "do you want this slice" and present him the box and he shakes his head and he says "don't get fat off that slice of cake" and it's only just registering to me what he said as I'm halfway down the block and it's been too much time to reply and this is such an ordinary occurrence for me that it’s not even shocking it’s just dully frustrating. 

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AVAILABLE NOW!! PAPER FLOWERS, IMAGINARY BIRDS by Amy Saul-Zerby.

“Amy Saul-Zerby is a roller death derby of sharp and fast clarity … [H]er poems convey a blast of sass and short punchy wonder.” –Derrick Brown, Our Poison Horse (Write Bloody Publishing) “The smart, alluring voice we encounter in Amy Saul-Zerby’s Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds is by turns zany, dark, casual, lyrical, angry, direct. I say voice, because these poems are constantly addressing us, implicating us as readers, as they map a psychological pathway through love, desire and pain always thrumming just beneath the surface. It’s a sophisticated voice and entirely contemporary, having learned as avidly from Confessionalism and the New York School as from social media. It’s a voice that longs for enlargement and anonymity at the same time; Amy Saul-Zerby’s poems themselves become places for hiding and places for being seen: ‘i am everything that i’m not / when i am a poem in your hands.’” –Richie Hofmann, Second Empire “Amy Saul-Zerby doesn’t know what a cliché is. Her poems are strange new flowers bursting from all angles out of everything.” –Bud Smith, F-250

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tips

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Thank you so much, Christian, for doing this interview with me the last time I was on the east coast :) So much fun!!

My interview begins around the 30 minute mark!!!

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imagine if you said “No” to a Terms of Service and it was like OK, Cool. Just thought we should ask! Enjoy the thing anyway!

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i don’t even write poetry i make bad mashups w pop culture’s slogans

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I want to make myself almost vulnerable in front of you compulsively, obsessively

Alexandra Naughton, from You Could Never Objectify Me More Than I’ve Already Objectified Myself (via lifeinpoetry)

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angel city review #4 http://angelcityreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Angel-City-Review-issue-4.pdf

NANCY BOTWIN HAS A PROBLEM

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new angel city review out today! I have a piece in here called Nancy Botwin Has A Problem, from a new book I’ve been writing called I Can Do Good All By Myself

click to download issue #4 of angel city review: http://angelcityreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Angel-City-Review-issue-4.pdf

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I’m in here <3 click to buy: http://2fast2house.com/store/issue-three

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