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	<title>Cati Porter</title>
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		<title>Alicia Ostriker and Matthea Harvey readings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week has been a boon for me: two readings by two stellar women poets.
The first was Alicia Ostriker. My friend and associate editor Judy Kronenfeld, recently retired from UCR&#8217;s creative writing department, facilitated this reading and it was something I believe she was personally looking forward to.
Ostriker was very warm and friendly, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1081&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/alicia-ostriker-and-matthea-harvey-readings/</link>
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		<title>My worst nightmare&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drove 2 1/2 hours from California to Chicago to take part in a reading series and arrived to find that I didn&#8217;t bring anything to read from. I scrambled to make copies of things to read from an Art Nouveau calendar, and attempted to retype poems using a borrowed machine by reading the text off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1077&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/my-worst-nightmare/</link>
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		<title>Just a few tidbits of news&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be reading in Los Angeles on November 17th at 6 pm as part of the Literary Uprising series, an event co-sponsored by Antioch University and the lit journal Two Hawks Quarterly. The readings occur quarterly, and each features one BA student (Loretta Williams, fiction) and one MFA student (myself, the only poet of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1072&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/just-a-few-tidbits-of-news/</link>
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		<title>The last of three scary-ish stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last of the cheese.
Here is the last of the three stories I wrote for Ghostwalk last year. For locals, this story was told at the Riverside Art Museum. For non-locals, all of these stories were part of a walking tour that occurs annually for Halloween, and is sponsored and put on by the California [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1065&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-last-of-three-scary-ish-stories/</link>
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		<title>The second of three scary-ish stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The *real* cheese, part deux.
Here is the second of three stories I wrote for Ghostwalk last year. For locals, this story was told at Downtown Books, a cool used book shop down a dark corridor that you wouldn&#8217;t even know was there if you weren&#8217;t looking for it. For non-locals, all of these stories were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1061&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-second-of-three-scary-ish-stories/</link>
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		<title>The first of three scary-ish stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, now for the *real* cheese.
Here is the first of three stories I wrote for Ghostwalk last year. For locals, this story was told at the Division Nine Gallery. For non-locals, all of these stories were part of a walking tour that occurs annually for Halloween, and is sponsored and put on by the California [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1057&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-first-of-three-scary-ish-stories/</link>
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		<title>Quiche me you fool</title>
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Cheese Alert! Just to forewarn you. You know, so you have no one to blame but yourself for continuing to read on.
I think I have food on the brain because the weather has officially turned chilly, and chilly weather always makes me want to cook. For Jacob&#8217;s 10th birthday a couple weeks ago I made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1049&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/quiche-me-you-fool/</link>
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		<title>Is the Gurlesque a girls-only club?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having wrapped up another round of revisions on my critical paper, which I have titled &#8220;Disturbingly Charming: On the Appeal and Practice of a Gurlesque Poetics&#8221;, I keep going back to the thought that the poems in the Gurlesque mode are primarily written by women for women. But my very unscientific research so far has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1042&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/is-the-gurlesque-a-girls-only-club/</link>
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		<title>Miscellaneous updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already heard, The Gender Issue has launched. We&#8217;ve had two celebratory readings: one at the West Hollywood Book Fair and one at the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery (in partnership with the Inlandia Institute). We are now accepting submissions for our next issue which will focus on collaborative works. And The Habitual Poet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=1010&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/miscellaneous-updates/</link>
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		<title>Come see us at the West Hollywood Book Fair tomorrow!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Come by and listen to Michelle Bitting, Ching-In Chen, Chella Courington, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Robert Krut, and Paul Lieber, 3 -4 pm, the Lounge Stage.
For more information visit the WeHoBookFair website at http://www.westhollywoodbookfair.org or download a PDF of the flyer for our event (http://www.poemeleon.org/storage/WeHo%20Book%20Fair%20flyer%202009.pdf.
While you&#8217;re there you can also pick up a Poemeleon sticker and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catiporter.wordpress.com&blog=1044792&post=997&subd=catiporter&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://catiporter.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/come-see-us-at-the-west-hollywood-book-fair-tomorrow/</link>
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