Feel Good Lost

snicker

rachelmallino — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:09:11 +0000

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-8-2009/gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down

Now Available From Tilt Press:

rachelmallino — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:27:53 +0000

Barefoot and Listening by Margaret Bashaar.

“I’m really here”

rachelmallino — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:15:47 +0000

I’m so late on this and don’t know what I was thinking by not rushing out to the theater when it was first released, seeing as how I’m a huge Aronofsky fan. And in true Aronofsky fashion, your heart never (always) brakes (breaks) during the fast descent. A truly spectacular movie and is now on my list of all time favorites.

Guess What?!

rachelmallino — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:15:30 +0000

It’s a YES. It’s a YES. It’s a YES.

309.81 will be published by Dancing Girl Press.

If you know anything about me, you know I’m the happiest girl on the planet right now.

bad dog / blue eyed beauty

rachelmallino — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:27:37 +0000

Protected: Slow Torture

rachelmallino — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:30:30 +0000

Slant’s 16th Dysfunctional Batch – Now Live!

rachelmallino — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:31:59 +0000

Slant’s 16th Dysfunctional Batch is now live with three poems by Rachel Contreni Flynn.

Po Stuff

rachelmallino — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:19:05 +0000

O.P.W. Fredericks has posted a wonderful review of my chapbook, Inside Bone There’s Always Marrow, to his blog: Fredericks’ Reflections.

Excerpt from the review: For me, a successful poem must tell a story so convincingly that I am transported to within its borders to feel, taste, and experience the events portrayed, as much as I must come to know the characters through the skill of the poet’s pen. Such were my travels into the world of four generations of a matriarchal bloodline created by Rachel Mallino.

Also, Weave Magazine has nominated my poem “The Arrow of Time” from their second issue, to Open Thread, who are presently putting together a collection of the best regional work to come out of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia between October 2008 and October 2009.

Woo-hoo!!

Happy Friday. I’m making yummy egg salad for lunch and there is a roast in the slow cooker!!

Protected: Rachel =

rachelmallino — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:40:40 +0000

Nasally

rachelmallino — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:43:48 +0000

I think this state has something against me. I’ve experienced the worst allergies since living here and I’m currently miserable with them. Rag-weed. Pollen. Grass. The Devil’s Bush. Stone Wash. Milk Bone. Laced Ivy. Just kidding. I made most of that shit up.

I happened across a blog the other day that took note of two poems I read for Linebreak. She said they were “well-read”, but in one of the poems I lost steam at the last line. An interesting thing that is – having someone critique your reading skills. I’ve never read in front of an audience, my only experience with reading poems to/for the public has been for Linebreak. I hate the sound of my own my voice, but I do love reading for them.

Dear Joe Lieberman: suck it.

I’m half way through writing one poem. The first in months.

Pass the tissues.