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Feb 18, 2018 Leave a Comment ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

So far in 2018 I have:

-Been in a bunch of magazines.
-Seen the release of my 90s anthology Come As You Are from Anomalous Press.
-Lost my gallbladder to the Great Gallbladder Exodus of 2018. Also a surgeon.
-Read my poems at three different events that required me to go outside and talk to strangers.
-Written two essay-shaped things and sent them to actual magazines. (One has been accepted at an actual magazine and is forthcoming in a soon-to-be-seen issue and what even is this?)
-Had a new chapbook with Grey Book Press that totally came out in December but, you know, it’s still here

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What Is Found Poetry? And What Isn’t?

Oct 18, 2017 1 Comment ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

As a practitioner of found poetry, I’m often tagged into Facebook threads and other Internet discussions on the subject. What is found poetry? And what isn’t? And how do I make a proper found poem?

I’ve been saying forever that I should write a blog post on this. But, looking at the questions above, there’s a lot of this to cover. So I’m going to try and break it down for y’all.

There are a lot of different styles of found poetry, the basics being erasure (or blackout poetry), cento, and cut-up (or remix). I won’t bore you with a lesson on each of those today, since you can pretty much get the deets from Wikipedia.

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A Bunch of News! Magazines, Things I’m Doing, and a New Chapbook!

Sep 21, 2017 1 Comment ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

Hello people of the Internet!

I know it’s been like almost a year since I’ve posted anything here. It’s been a busy year of recovery and writing and generally just trying to get my shit together. I’m still working on that last one. But I’ve been here, and I’ve been making things and doing things and I hope you have been too!

I’ve had poems out this summer in Cleaver and Atlas + Alice and Banshee and Underblong and Roanoke Review and FLAPPERHOUSE and Third Coast and Hawai’i Review. You can go click those things and read most of them online, though some of them do have print editions which I hope you’ll be interested in.

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Cover Reveal for my next poetry chapbook WE’RE DOING WITCHCRAFT!

Sep 19, 2016 14 Comments ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

So I still have been slow at blogging during my recovery and general busy-ness this summer. That said, I have some cool news! I have a cover for my chapbook WE’RE DOING WITCHCRAFT, which is forthcoming from Hermeneutic Chaos Press in October!

This book collects some of my work on the female body, feminism, femininity, and the villification of women. Some poems lean toward struggles and beauties of adolescence, while others are more biological, political, aggressive. The collection is a mix of traditional and found poetry, which is a first for me. I’m really excited for y’all to read it!

So here’s the full wrap of the cover, made by Shinjini Bhattacharjee and Olivia Rose Edvalson:

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It’s been a while! So I have lots of news! BOOKS AND THINGS.

Jul 07, 2016 Leave a Comment ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

So I’ve been terrible about keeping up with the blogging and I could tell you all about my health and that stuff but that would be boring so I’m just going to get to the news.

First things first, I have a new chapbook out. FIRE IN THE SKY is a chapbook of three long poems built from scrambled and then erasured Lana Del Rey Lyrics. Each of the poem uses language from one of her first three albums. It’s pretty fun to read from (I’ll be reading from it at Malvern Books on July 22!) and hopefully y’all enjoy it as well. This one is very swear-y and sex-y, so it won’t be best for most younger readers. But, you know, everyone is different.

I really enjoyed working with editor Scott Sweeney on this book. Would recommend. A++++. (Hi, Scott.)

If you want a copy, check out my publisher Grey Book Press, or order directly from me by emailing e.kristin.anderson@gmail.com. I have adorable fireworks buttons and some found poetry kits to go along with orders. Books are $6 + shipping, either from me or from Grey Book. ??

I also have some new-er news! As of July 4th, I have a new chapbook (my 8th!) forthcoming from one of my favorite publishers, Hermeneutic Chaos Press! I’m so thrilled to get to work with editor Shijini Bhattacharjee! The book is called WE’RE DOING WITCHCRAFT, and it collects some of my more feminist pieces, including political response pieces, found poems, and poems about growing up in a female body. (Oh, adolescence!)

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Prince

Apr 21, 2016 4 Comments ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

I was going to write a post today about my new chapbook but I frankly don’t care much about that today or this week or for a little bit at least because of the news I got this morning.

Today we lost Prince, and as most of y’all know, Prince is important to me as a writer and as a human. There’s a certain love there, even though he’s not a person I have ever met, and so there’s a grief here. And it’s a grief that can’t be filled with gifs or jokes or words.

So there are no words. Even though I’m making words right now.

I want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out to me and who continues to reach out. Those close to me know that this has been a trying time for me personally and that Prince saved my life before I got sick with the kidney things and that he has continued to be a place I turn to in my moments of despair. Right now I can’t listen to his music. I hope I can again soon. But I am glad to have people I love and who love me who will talk to me about Prince. Everyone from my BFFs to my grandmother to my readers to the barista at my Starbucks has expressed love today and it means a lot and I hope that we can all always be so loving to each other, in times of grief or otherwise.

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Double Chapbook Cover Reveal: ACOUSTIC BATTERY LIFE and FIRE IN THE SKY!

Mar 29, 2016 13 Comments ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

Hello readers! I’m so excited to finally be able to share some beautiful art with you. I have several books headed your way this spring (I’m exhausted and excited and exhausted and exhilarated and okay mostly freaking out with AWESOME about this).

First, some housekeeping: I’ll be at AWP this week, so if you’re at the conference, be sure to find me! I have an off-site reading (free and open to the public) at Ham & Eggs Tavern on Thursday at 5pm, and at 4:30 on Saturday I have a panel on bringing poetry to the YOUTHS with Lynn Melnick, Camille Rankine, Kerri Webster, and Sheila McMullin. Come see us! I’ll also have lots of fun and fabulous swag to distribute and HYSTERIA BINGO cards! So find me (at readings, panels, at the book fair), play BINGO, get stuff, buy my books, have fun, YAY!

Onto the art.

So. Coming very soon are my next two found poetry chapbooks, FIRE IN THE SKY with Grey Book Press and ACOUSTIC BATTERY LIFE with ELJ Publications. The art is here. I’ve been sitting on it, admiring it, sneaking peeks to people on my phone. But I finally get to share it with you! Here you go:

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HYSTERIA IS COMING!

Mar 20, 2016 14 Comments ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

Hi everyone! Apologies for disappearing again. But I’ve been buried in work for Lucky Bastard Press. Including—YES!—that secret anthology that I’ve been pretty bad at keeping under wraps. THE HYSTERIA ANTHOLOGY! An entire book of work by female and nonbinary writers reflecting on the experience of being in the female and/or nonbinary body.

I can’t believe it’s finally happening. This anthology is one of the biggest undertakings of my career thus far. And, appropriately, some of the most awesome people I’ve ever worked with are a part of it.

Francesca Lia Block. Judith Ortiz Cofer. Rita Dove. Lesléa Newman. Patricia Smith. Natasha Trethewey.

I CAN’T EVEN.

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I’m totally not dead, I promise! And other stuff!

Jan 13, 2016 21 Comments ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

So you may have noticed that I haven’t really been posting, like, anything here in a while. And there’s a reason for that. I’ve been sick.

Not like flu sniffles sick. Like ended up in the hospital for three weeks and then again for two days and now I have several months of treatment to deal with an illness so weird and rare that was actually on House one time sick. (Legit. We even did the “it’s not lupus” thing.)

I have chosen NOT to look up anything about this autoimmune disease and trust my doctors to tell me what I need to know because apparently some cases are pretty scary. And I will totally freak out. So I’m not going to name it here because if you know me personally you already know what it is and if you know me personally you know the temptation to Google this disease and read about the scary is killing me so I don’t want the Google to bring this post up for other people Googling and end up with links to info on my blog post.

Basically, my kidneys went rogue and I’m lucky to be alive. Very lucky.

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Book News on the Eve of the Launch for PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!

Oct 24, 2015 3 Comments ~ Written by E. Kristin Anderson

So I made this book called 17 DAYS and signed a deal with a publisher and then that deal went sour and 17 DAYS was homeless.

So I started sending it out again. And then I heard from ELJ Publications. And they were all, can we look at this again? And they did. And they liked it. And now 17 DAYS is no longer homeless.

It is also no longer coverless. Ariana D. Den Bleyker of ELJ fashioned this glorious cover for a book that should be heading our way very, very soon:

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E. Kristin Anderson is a poet, Starbucks connoisseur, and glitter enthusiast living in Austin, Texas. A Connecticut College graduate with a B.A. in classics, Kristin’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Kristin co-edited the award-winning DEAR TEEN ME anthology and is the editor of the literary anthologies COME AS YOU ARE, an anthology of writing on 90’s pop culture (Anomalous Press) and HYSTERIA: WRITING THE FEMALE BODY (forthcoming from Sable Books). As a poet, Kristin has been published The Texas Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Salamander, /the Pinch, Barrelhouse Online, and The American Journal of Nursing and she has work forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, BOXCAR Poetry, and Ninth Letter. Kristin is the author of nine chapbooks of poetry including A GUIDE FOR THE PRACTICAL ABDUCTEE (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), PRAY, PRAY, PRAY: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press, 2015), FIRE IN THE SKY (Grey Book Press, 2016), SHE WITNESSES (dancing girl press, 2016), WE’RE DOING WITCHCRAFT (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), 17 SEVENTEEN XVII (Grey Book Press, 2017) and BEHIND, ALL YOU’VE GOT (Semiperfect Press). She hand-wrote her first trunk book at sixteen. It was about the band Hanson and may or may not still be in a notebook in her parents’ garage. Kristin assistant poetry editor at The Boiler and an editorial assistant at Sugared Water. Once upon a time she worked the night shift at The New Yorker. She blogs at and tweets at @ek_anderson.

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