[CW-Grad] Nicelle Davis (MFA '09) has, oh, a bit of good news...

[Robin Russin]

Just a bit. Apparently, in between long, lazy naps and teaching, this is what she's been up to:


GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

-      Mapping the Desert, City of Riverside California (2010)

-      SLAB Magazine, the Elizabeth R. Curry Prize in Poetry, (2010)

 

PUBLICATIONS: Nicelle Davis

 
Books

Circe (Lowbrow Press, forthcoming, Fall 2011)

Becoming Judas (Red Hen Press, forthcoming, Fall 2013)

 
E-Chapbooks

Attention Deficit Letters (Gold Wake Press, February 2010)

Studies in Monogamy (Whale Sound, Winter 2010)

 
Work Reprinted or Anthologized

“Misunderstood”Squaw Valley Writers - Poetry Anthology (Summer 2009)

“Jesus and Judas as Boys” Moulin Review (Winter 2010)

“Duende” Fickle Muses (October 2009)

“The Dead Messenger Pigeon Writes” HTMLGIANT (Spring 2010)

 
Collaborations

The Bodie Poetry Project http://bodiepoetryproject.wordpress.com (2010)

“Composition 101”Broadsided (2010)

“The Frustration of Being a Shitty Painter” Picture Postcard Press (2010)

 
Periodicals—Poetry Publications

A cappella Zoo (2011): “Cat and Mouse Act,  “On its Haunches,” “In a Note Not Given to the Addressee,” “A letter from the dream self,” and “Entering the Big Top of the Self Requires Help”

Beloit Poetry Journal (2011) “I Wrote You this Love Letter, But  You’ll Think It’s Gross”

The Mom Egg (2011) “Hope In My Son’s Hands”

Mosaic Literary Journal (2011) “Clowns Promise What Can’t be Delivered” and “Dear Sir” Mosaic (2010)

 

JMWW (2010) “The Wings inside our Stomachs”

New York Quarterly (200?) “Dream Boy”

Phantom Seed (2010) “How a Dry Lake Bed Feels when it Rains” and “City on Fire: California Riots”

Acappellazoo (2010) “Sideshow Serpentina: the Last of the Split-Tailed Mermaids”

Blue Mesa Review Issue 23 (2010) “Studies in Monogamy: Uncle George's Last Request for Aunt Helen”

Caesura (2010) “Flip a Coin”

Front Range Review Issue 5 (2010) “Gifts of a Shape-shifter”

FuseLit (2010) “Disclaimer: Assumptions Made by This Homemade Religion”

Illya’s Honey (2010) “Denny’s All Nighters,” “Change These Bones”

The Mom Egg Vol.8 (2010) “Mother”

Mosaic Literary Journal (2010) “Complications in the art of Monogamy: Conjoined Twins,” “Enough Time” “Let Us Say This is the End of the World,” and “Prepared for You”

Moulin Review (2010) “Instructions to Understanding Mother,” “Poison Control and the Old Neighborhood,”

The New York Quarterly (2010 “Unlikely Origins and the Book of Mormon”)

Slab Magazine (2010)  “The Middle School Scab Eater”

San Pedro River Review (2010) “Madame Moustache’s Last Game of Poker”

Superficial Flesh (2010) “Stolen From the Mouth of Thunder”

Transcurrent Literary Journal (2010) “I Fall Asleep Reading Revelations in My Grandmother’s House”

Two Review (Winter 2010) “Studies in Monogamy” and “Flash” Two Review

 

Online—Poetry Publications

DinoBees (2011) “What do I Know about Being a Freak”

Matter (2011) “The Bone Letters”

PANK (2011) “My Understanding of Love between Women—or—La macchina da cucire,” “My Understanding of Love from a Man—or—The Rubber Boy,” and “My Understanding of Love for Self—or—What I can Recall from the Film, The New Sideshow”

 

Entasis (2010) “The Angry Siren” and “The Little Siren”

Pedestal (2010) “The Night Circe Cannot Remember”

Fertile Source (2010) “Bought a Pack of Cigarette Today”

Northville (Fall 2010) “Crow Songs”

The Houston Literary Review (Summer 2010) “Ours” and “They made Us put letters in my Grandmother’s Coffin”

ML Press (Summer 2010) “By the Bible’s Map we have Lost the Locaton of Love”

PANK (Summer 2010) “Crossfire Chemistry” and “In the Story of Adultery”

Adirondack Review (Spring 2010) “Gustav Klimt’s Hope I”

The Collagist (Winter 2010) “Five Steps Closer to Knowing First”

Blood Lotus (Winter 2010) “Coltrain and Cuba”

Divine Dirt Quarterly (Winter 2010) “LP”

Offending Adam (Winter 2010 ) “Faith as Seen on YouTube”, “The Mother of Invention,”  and “Jesus Propositions Judas with Salvation”

Verdad (Spring 2010) “My Mother’s First Orphaned Christmas,” “Dada,” and “Anti-Lullaby”           



Robin Russin

Associate Professor and Director
MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu
http://robinrussin.com

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