~~Michelle Detorie~~

~~about~~

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Michelle Detorie is a writer, artist, editor and educator. She grew up in Columbia, South Carolina and has lived in Baltimore, Md and the Texas Hill Country. She currently lives in Goleta, California where she edits WOMB, an online magazine for by women, and Hex Presse, a feminist micro-press.

Individual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in How2, Chelsea, Bird Dog, EOAGH, Otoliths, Blackbird, Jacket, Verse Daily, The Dame Review, Typo, Dusie, POOL, Pindeldyboz, DIAGRAM, La Petite Zine, Cranky, Caketrain, The Tiny, The Potomac Review, FOURSQUARE, Confrontation, kadar koli, No Tell Motel, The Southern Poetry Review, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel(2007), Poetry East, Don't Leave Hungry, and Letters to the World.

Her poem "Feral Thing" is available as tinyside # 9 from Big Game Books and a collection of visual poems, Our Clean Heart, was published as a special edition of Foursquare. A chapbook, DAPHNMOANCY, was published by Peter Ganick's Small Chapbook Project and another chapbook, Bellum Letters, was published as part of the Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv. A third chapbook, A Coincidence of Wants, is available from Dos Press. Her fourth chapbook, Ode to Industry, and a mini-chap version of Fur Birds were published with the Dusie Chapbook Kollektive. How Hate Got Hand, a pamphlet about humans and animals, was recently published by eohippus labs, and a longer chapbook version of Fur Birds is forthcoming in the Parrot Series from Insert Press.

Current projects include Fur Birds (a collection of poems, prose poems, and visual poems), Spectre (a manuscript of poems), Feral Thing (another manuscript of poems), Mirror Girls (a prose-poem memoir->ish thing), Diary (a novel for teens), and , an improvised music and text project with guitarist Kurt Newman. She also makes visual and new-media poems. You can see some of them here and here.

Michelle has taught writing at Johns Hopkins, Loyola College, Texas State University, and Santa Barbara City College. In addition to her work with college students, she has also taught middle and high school students, most notably at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and the Katherine Anne Porter Young Writers Program. From 2004 to 2006, Michelle was the Writer-in-Residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House and Literary Center. In 2007, Michelle won a National Endowment for the Arts literary fellowship, and in 2010 she won a direct-to-artist grant from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative for the public-art project The Poetry Booth. She has an MA from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Texas State University, where she held the Rose Fellowship.

When she is not writing, designing, or editing, Michelle teaches writing at Santa Barbara City College and works with injured seabirds through the Santa Barbaraa Wildlife Care Network. You can read an interview here and here and reviews of her work here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Daphnomancy Chapbook

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published by Peter Ganick's Small Chapbook Project

Foursquare Special Edition!!!

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get it here!

dieorama mosaic

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1. where kiss did man, 2. does and ram, 3. which hard thing held, 4. a dirty young came, 5. how hate got hand, 6. but on this beast, 7. as from a wife, 8. a lap for work, 9. our clean heart, 10. time love some hand, 11. which things could she use, 12. its fast baby, 13. down with my soft part, 14. down my soft part, 15. sometime at wife, 16. small like hate, 17. young heart like hate, 18. young part gave start, 19. young taste fly like love, 20. let young, 21. bare thing your time, 22. bare thing, 23. gave start, 24. now lady, 25. young part, 26. held saw felt, 27. held saw felt, 28. her them us, 29. stop love hate, 30. saw made took

Psychedelic Domestic

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1. bedmaker, 2. text and bridle, 3. pony, 4. stepstool, 5. badluck, 6. hem, 7. pill, 8. tablet of grief, 9. stop details, 10. iron on, 11. scissor, 12. cup of tea for you and me

video poems

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Feral Thing

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cover design by Maureen Thorson
tinyside now available from Big*Game*Books

areas of inquiry and curiosity

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alphabets
animals
etymology
improvisation
the occult
reliquaries
nesting
poltergeists
anglo-saxon literature
feminism
collage/layers
wonder cabinets
gestation, lactation, and reproduction
Text, letters
textile arts
the history of the book
the invisible
melos
debris

Contact

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femmeferal at gmail dot com

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