Thursday, October 29, 2015

Enter the PATIENT WOMEN Goodreads Giveaway!

Dear friends:
Enter the PATIENT WOMEN Goodreads Giveaway for a chance to win a FREE signed copy of my new novel. PATIENT WOMEN has been called "a brutally honest wrestling match of truth-telling and sex" and "the best book . . . about this period of life in NYC since Patti Smith's Just Kids."  Hailed as stylistically brilliant (thank you, readers!) in its use of poetry, journal entries, flash, and innovative narrative, PATIENT WOMEN has chapters about prostitution, the Holocaust, incest, and the post-Woodstock era.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

My poem, "Gaia's Lunacy," appears in Journal of Poetics Research

I am very pleased that my poem, "Gaia's Lunacy," appears in John Tranter's new Journal of Poetics Research. 

Here is the text of the poem:

GAIA’S LUNACY

The Sun is hot and bothered, and libidinal, having fathered
all our mendicants and tycoons, cops and robbers, and our rife loons.

The Earth below is verdant, child of Eros, green, exultant
for solar love would bask her with his sure heat and not task her,

but treasure all her madmen, all her masters and their bondsmen,
thus offering a devotion of which our Gaia has no notion.

The fickle Earth presumes a love from solar powers as enough;
Her denizens expect the same and bask in glory with no name.

Now, the music of the spheres should play loud in one's own ears
But creation's power's assumed, and unheard by all us loons.

Journal of Poetics Research:
http://poeticsresearch.com/article/larissa-shmailo-poem-gaias-lunacy/

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Countdown to Louisiana!

Dear Louisiana friends, I am so excited to be visiting the legendary cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette for the very first time. I'll be reading from my books In Paran, #specialcharacters, and my new novel, Patient Women. I hope to see you at my readings there!
 
Tuesday, November 3, 7pm-9pm
Elevator Projects
451 Florida St., Suite 102, Baton Rouge
(in the downtown Chase building)
No cover, wine provided
Readers include Xander Bilyk (New Orleans), Wendy Taylor Carlisle (Eureka Springs, AR), Michael Harold (Shreveport), Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson (Lafayette), Dylan Krieger (Baton Rouge), and Larissa Shmailo (NYC)

Thursday, November 5, 6pm sharp-8pm sharp:
Crescent City Books
230 Chartres St., New Orleans
No cover, wine provided
Readers include Wendy Taylor Carlisle (Eureka Springs, AR), Michael Harold (Shreveport), Carolyn Hembree (New Orleans), Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson (Lafayette), Christopher Shipman (New Orleans), and Larissa Shmailo (NYC)

Friday, November 6, 7:30 pm-9:30pm
The Ballet Académie
200 Polk St., Lafayette
No cover, wine provided
Readers include Wendy Taylor Carlisle (Eureka Springs, AR), Michael Harold (Shreveport), Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson (Lafayette), Dylan Krieger (Baton Rouge), Larissa Shmailo (NYC), and John Warner Smith (Baton Rouge)

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

My essay, The Combinatorics of Context, is now in Italian

My essay on Philip Nikolayev's embedded sonnets,  The Combinatorics of Context, appears in Italian in the international journal Grafias, This essay originally appeared in The Battersea Review edited by Ben Mazer.

http://www.grafias.it/i-sonetti-integrati-di-philip-nikolayev-la-combinatoria-del-contesto/

Thursday, October 01, 2015

Readings in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette in November



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“UNLIKELY SAINTS”
Literary events in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette
Supporting the Festival of Words, Lyrically Inclined, and Unlikely Books

                                                CONTACT:    Jonathan Penton
                                                                        (337) 207-8713
                                                                        jonathan@unlikelystories.org

 In the first week of November, 2015, south Louisiana publisher Unlikely Books will join with Lafayette’s premiere open-mic-and-slam series, Lyrically Inclined, and the Festival of Words in Grand Coteau in a celebration of the literature produced by and available to south Louisiana readers. Six writers from south Louisiana will join Larissa Shmailo of New York City, Michael Harold of Shreveport, and Wendy Taylor Carlisle of Eureka Springs, AR in a series of three literary events featuring diverse backgrounds, styles, and literary themes.
The events are called the “Unlikely Saints” tour, mimicking a similar tour in November 2011. Flyers and publicity photo attached.

Tuesday, November 3, 7pm-9pm
Elevator Projects
451 Florida St., Suite 102, Baton Rouge
(in the downtown Chase building)
No cover, wine provided
Readers include Xander Bilyk (New Orleans), Wendy Taylor Carlisle (Eureka Springs, AR), Michael Harold (Shreveport), Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson (Lafayette), Dylan Krieger (Baton Rouge), and Larissa Shmailo (NYC)

Thursday, November 5, 6pm sharp-8pm sharp:
Crescent City Books
230 Chartres St., New Orleans
No cover, wine provided
Readers include Wendy Taylor Carlisle (Eureka Springs, AR), Michael Harold (Shreveport), Carolyn Hembree (New Orleans), Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson (Lafayette), Christopher Shipman (New Orleans), and Larissa Shmailo (NYC)

Friday, November 6, 7:30 pm-9:30pm
The Ballet Académie
200 Polk St., Lafayette
No cover, wine provided
Readers include Wendy Taylor Carlisle (Eureka Springs, AR), Michael Harold (Shreveport), Alex “PoeticSoul” Johnson (Lafayette), Dylan Krieger (Baton Rouge), Larissa Shmailo (NYC), and John Warner Smith (Baton Rouge)

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