Upcoming Readings & Panels
Past Readings
In Your Ear Reading Series, DCArts Center, Washington, DC (September 2011); d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, ACA Galleries, NYC (November 2010); Monday Night Poetry Season at KGB Bar, NYC (November 2010); Chapter & Verse Reading Series, Philadelphia, PA (July 2010); Poetry Lab at The Soundry, Vienna, VA (July 2010); Meadowlark Poetry Marathon, Denver, CO (April 2010); What’s New in Poetry Reading Series, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (April 2010); Gallery Neptune, Bethesda, MD (March 2010); Bard College, Hudson River Valley, NY (March 2010); Articles Press Hour, Iota Club & Cafe, Arlington, VA (February 2010); Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD (December 2009); Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY (October 2009); Fall for the Book, Fairfax, VA (September 2009); Artomatic, Washington DC (June 2009); Sunday Kind of Love at Bus Boys & Poets, Washington DC (June 2009); Busboys & Poets, Alexandria, VA (March 2009); Sova, Washington, DC (March 2009); Myopic Books, Chicago, IL (February 2009); In Your Ear Reading Series, DCArts Center, Washington, DC (December 2008); Cheryl’s Gone, Washington, DC (July 2008); Cadmium Text Series, Kingston NY (April 2008); MicroPress Poetry Pageant, Stain Bar, Brooklyn, NY (February 2008), The So and So Series, Boston, MA (December 2007); Dire Literary Series, Cambridge, MA (December 2007); KGB Bar, NYC (December 2007); What’s New In Poetry Series (Emory University), Atlanta, GA (February, November 2007); Earshot at The Lucky Cat, Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY (November 2007); Emergency Reading Series at Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA (November 2007); Towson Arts Collective, Towson MD (October 2007); Frequency Series, NY, NY (October 2005, May 2006, May 2007); series A, Chicago, IL (May 2007); Mt. Vernon Poetry Festival at George Washington University (April 2007); Apache Cafe, Atlanta, GA (March 2007); PUSSIPO at Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA (February 2007); The Ordinary Evening Reading Series, New Haven, CT (December 2006); Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT (December 2006); Behind the Egg: A reading series, Albany, NY (December 2006); i.e. Poetry series, Baltimore, MD (June, July 2005, January, December 2006); MiPO Reading Series; NY, NY (October 2006), Soon Productions, Albany, NY (August 2006); Grace Church Poetry Coffee House, Washington, DC (March 2006), LIT/Redivider/Kitchen Press Reading, Austin, TX (March 2006); MiPOesias Reading, Miami, FL (November 2005); Carrboro Poetry Festival, Carrboro, NC (May 2005); Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA (July 2002); Bennington College (January 2001); Cafe Con Amore, St. Paul, MN (October 1999); Borders Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA (May 1998), Enlightenments on WRCT, 88.3 FM; Pittsburgh, PA (1993), Prosidy on WYEP, 93.1 FM; Pittsburgh, PA (1992)
Past Panels
“What Editors Love and Hate,” Conversations and Connections Conference, Washington, DC (April 2011); “A Conversation with Mary Karr and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon” (moderator), Folger Theatre, Washington, DC (March 2011); “Writing the Beltway: Four Washington, DC Publishers Navigate the Capital” (Associated Writers Program Conference, Washington, DC, February 2011); “Publishing in Local Journals” (Fall for the Book, George Mason University, September 2009); “Rethinking Methods in Poetry Publishing Panel” (Conversations and Connections Writer’s Conference, John Hopkins, Washington, DC, April 2009); “New Media and Publishing Creative Writing Panel” (Fiction Seminar, George Mason University, February 2009); “Publishing” Marist Writing Institute, (Marist College, Poughskeepsie, NY, August 2008); “Web Markets and Marketing” (Conversations and Connections, Washington, DC, April 2008); “Small Press Publishing” (The New School, New York, NY, March 2008); “Online Publishing” (Writing by Degrees Conference, Binghamton, NY, September 2007); “Making Connections: Networking and the Business of Writing” and “Writers and the Web: Markets, Tools, and Connections” (Conversations and Connections, Bethesda, MD, May 2007); “DIY Publishing: Chapbooks, Zines, Webzines, Blogs, Collectives & Etc.” (Associated Writing Program Conference, Austin, TX, March 2006); “Literary Magazines” (F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference (Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, October 2005); “Songs of Myself” and “Everyone’s Blogging--Should You?” (James River Writers Conference, Richmond, VA, September 2005); “Literary Journals” and “Literary Blogging” (Fall for the Book Festival, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, September 2005); “Literature on the Web” (Bethesda Literary Festival, Bethesda, MD April 2005)
Invited Speaker
University of California-Riverside (Palm Springs, June 2011); California College of the Arts (Berkeley, CA, April 2010 & December 2007); University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA, April 2009); Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY April 2008); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, March 2008)
Audio of poems can be heard at the Library of Congress, Internet Archive, Out of Our Minds with J.P. Dancing Bear; Joe Milford Poetry Show, PennSound, Emergency Reading Series and From the Fishouse
Books
God Damsel (No Tell Books 2010)
Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books 2007)
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor (anthology, co-editor with Molly Arden, No Tell Books 2007)
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (anthology, co-editor with Molly Arden, No Tell Books 2006)
Chapbooks
Wanton Textiles (co-author, No Tell Books 2006)
Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut Chapbook Series 2006)
Poems
Forthcoming . . .
Now Available . . .
”from The Psychic Memoirs of Zirconza Khan“; Sinescope (Fall 2011)
“from The Forgiveness Canon (1),” “from The Forgiveness Canon (2),” “The Death of Thingamabob,” “The Death of Beau” and “The Death of Miscreant”; The Equalizer (Fall 2010)
”Diminished Prophecy 13:1,” ”Diminished Prophecy 13:2,” ”Diminished Prophecy 13:3,” ”Diminished Prophecy 13:4,” ”Diminished Prophecy 13:5“ and ”Diminished Prophecy 13:6“; Action, Yes (Spring 2010)
”Questions for the Quest“; The Rumpus (April 2010)
“The Death of Vale,” “The Death of Gigolo,” “The Death of Dandy” and “The Death of Woe-DoDo”; West Wind Review (2010)
“Lament for Time Machine,” “Lament for Gourds,” “Lament for the Double X Chromosomed” and “Lament for a Meadow”; Rooms Outlast Us (2010)
“Proverb 4”; Boog City Review (2010)
“Litany for Thy Fun” and “Litany for Emancipation”; i.e. reader (2009)
”The Epistle of Damsel, ”Spell for Refunding Her Who Bozoed a Wineglass,” ”The Tabernacle Hymns,” ”A Hymn to Damsel,” ”GOURD Has Remembered“; No Tell Motel (December 2009)
“Diminished Prophecy 10:1”; INCH (2009)
”Lament for Gigolo,” ”Lament for Bad Taste“ and ”Lament for Tempest“; Absent (Issue 4, 2009)
“Diminished Prophecy 11:1,” “Diminished Prophecy 11:3,” “Diminished Prophecy 11:4,” “Diminished Prophecy 11:5” and “Diminished Prophecy 11:6”; Eleven Eleven (Issue 7, July 2009)
”Spell for Ceasing the Pandering to the Daybroken Spiral,” ”Spell for Not Dueling with Dead Loveswap,” and ”Spell for Sipping the Elixir“; CUE (2009)
”Lament to Damsel,” ”Lament to Gigolo“ and ”Lament for Absence“; Galatea Resurrects (Issue 12, 2009)
“Lament for Heart,” “Lament for the Name,” “Diminished Prophecy 7:1” and “Diminished Prophecy 7:2”; OCHO (Issue 24, 2009)
”Spell for Panic on the Approach,” ”Diminished Prophecy 8:1,” ”Diminished Prophecy 8:2“ and ”Diminished Prophecy 8:3“; Dead Mule (April 2009)
”Effects of Jupiter,” ”Effect of Uranus,” ”Effect of Mars“ and ”Effect of Neptune“; SIR! (February 2009)
”Lament for Attire,” ”Lament for the Obvious,” “ Lament for Availability“ and ”Lament for Jolly Good“; Wheelhouse Magazine (March 2009)
”Litany for the Benefits,” ”Litany for Regifting“ and ”Litany for Insomnia“; the Denver syntax (2009)
”Diminished Prophecy 1:4,” ”Diminished Prophecy 1:5,” ”Diminished Prophecy 1:6,” ”Diminished Prophecy 3:1,” ”Diminished Prophecy 5:1“ and ”Diminished Prophecy 5:2“; Delirious Hem (December 2008)
”Spell for Extinguishing Woe-Dodo,” ”Another Spell for Extinguishing Woe-Dodo,” ”Spell For a Squat-Token of Dread Stone,” ”Spell For a Fountain Faker to be Settled on the Jugular of the Hierophant“ and ”Spell for Being Lukeswarmed into Any Scrape One May Fetish“; Moria (2008)
“Diminished Prophecy 6:3” and “Litany for the Wrong Bygone”; Gargoyle Magazine (Issue 53, Fall 2008)
”Spell for Sipping the Elixir,” ”Spell for Lunching After the Death“ and ”Lament for Origin“; Anti- (2008)
”Diminished Prophecy 6:1“ and ”Diminished Prophecy 6:2“; Spooky Boyfriend (Issue 1, Summer 2008)
”The First Chronicle of Marriage,” ”The Second Chronicle of Marriage,” ”The Fourth Chronicle of Marriage,” ”The Fifth Chronicle of Marriage“ and ”The Ninth Chronicle of Marriage“; P.F.S. Post (Summer 2008)
“Diminished Prophecy 1:1”; 32 Poems (Spring 2008)
”Lament for Fronting,” ”Lament for Bust,” ”Lament for Mutation,” ”Lament for Must,” ”Lament for Hush“ and ”Lament for Them“; Coconut (Issue 12, 2008)
”Lament for Damsel“ and ”Lament for Sideshow“; The American Poetry Review (March/April 2008)
”Litany for Thine Talents“ The Manila Broadsides, The So-and-So Series & Rope-a-Dope Press (December 2007)
”The Third Chronicle of Marriage,” ”The Sixth Chronicle of Marriage,” ”The Seventh Chronicle of Marriage“ and ”The Eighth Chronicle of Marriage“; MiPOesias (December 2007)
“Litany for the Pang”; If Poetry Journal (December 2007)
”Litany for the Fishyman,” ”Prophecy 4:1“ and ”Prophecy 4:2“; Night Train (October 2007)
“What There Wasn’t Time to Mention: Notes”; The Hat (Issue 7, 2007)
“Diminished Prophecy 2:1,” “Diminished Prophecy 2:2” and “Diminished Prophecy 2:3”; FOURSQUARE 2.2 (2007)
“Lament for Beau,” ”Lament for Little Lamb,” ”Lament for Acrimony,” ”Lament for Ha“ and ”Lament for Miscreant“; Caffeine Destiny (Fall 2007)
“At Last and Everlasting“ and ”Finite and Fortnight“; Jumps (Issue 1, 2007)
“Good Night I Swear” and “He Will”; The Concher (Issue 1, 2007)
“What Doesn’t Do,” ”Things Get,” ”Frankness and Light,” ”Poem for Make Believe“ and ”Inept Photography“; Tool a Magazine (Issue 8, 2007)
“Fragile Takes Stand,” ”Tuning Out“ and ”Wind Like Swayze“; The Scrambler (2007)
Sampling of poems reprinted from Wanton Textiles and other publications; Beltway Poetry Quarterly (2007)
“The Miser(ables),” ”Ours Alone“ and ”The Spirit to Adopt“; past simple (Issue 1, 2006)
“God Gets Close”; OCHO (Issue 5, 2006)
“Seven Spell,” ”Brevity is Not My Soul,” ”Another Roundabout“ and ”On Realizing There Won’t Be a Ceremony.”; Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks (Issue 2, 2006)
"Luna Park"; The Carolina Quarterly Emerging Voices Poetry Project (Volume 57, No. 3, 2006)
"Wanton Textiles" (co-author); Fringe Magazine (Issue 2, March 2006)
"Wifely Attempt at Poem"; MiPOesias (Volume 20, Issue 2, 2006)
"Cold Storage," "My Lover Beside" and "Still Feeling It"; MiPOesias (Volume 20, Issue 1, 2006)
"Ugly Girl Anthem," "Who the Man Was," "Off Vermont" and "Nothing Like Us"; mem (Issue # 3, 2006)
"Delicious Marriage"; Pip Lit (Issue # 2, 2005)
"Apologies for Ice," "My Lover Never," "Rare Hawk Evident" and "Tonight I Doze"; Coconut (Issue # 2, 2005)
"Brunch With Cordelia," "Clutch" and "Retention"; Kulture Vulture (Issue # 3, 2005)
"Sink the Girl" and "When the Moment Turned"; DUCKY (Issue # 5, 2005)
"Parts," "And the Point Is?" and "Love, Sincere": Rock Heals (2005)
"Pine Box," "June Sense" and "Much We Could Do"; SOFTBLOW (2005)
"When Dogs Rule"; 42opus (Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005)
"What We Say"; Esther Press (2005)
"That’s Not Butter"; MiPOesias (Volume 19, Issue 3, 2005)
"The Skirmish"; Unpleasant Event Schedule (2005)
"Wanting to Be a Man of Saturn" and "Quantity of the Quality"; Vs. (2004)
"Comfortable Ass Clicking Garments"; Good Foot (Issue # 5, 2004)
"Inquiry" and "Muse Vs. Law"; 5AM (Issue # 20, 2004)
"Meditations on Heritage," "Color of Ass" and "Thoughts on Indoor Living"; LIT (Issue # 8, 2004)
"On the Way"; F U: An Anthology of Fuck You Poems; Slope (Issue # 17, 2003)
"Missing in Suburbia"; 5AM (Issue # 17, 2002)
"Born with a Pewter Spoon"; LIT (Issue # 5, 2001)
"Depression"; 5AM (Issue # 13, 2000)
Anthologies
“Litany for Thy Fun” and “Litany for Emancipation” (poems); i.e. reader (Narrow House 2009)
“Tonight I Doze” (poem); From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books 2009)
“Uncommon Concubine” (poem); The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor (No Tell Books 2007)
"That’s Not Butter" (poem); Best American Poetry 2006 (Scribner 2006)
“No Bra Required” (poem); The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books 2006)
"Thoughts on Indoor Living" (poem); In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - Volume 6 (MWE Enterprises 2005)
"Depression" (poem); It’s All Good: How Do You Like It Here NOW? (Manic D Press 2004)
Interviews
“Interview with PF Potvin;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Bruce Covey;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Jill Alexander Essbaum;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Shafer Hall;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Laurel Snyder;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Rebecca Loudon;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Hugh Behm-Steinberg;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
“Interview with Ravi Shankar;” The Best American Poetry Blog (July 2008)
"Interview with April Bernard" Post Road
Columns/Essays
“Crucial Holiday Poetry Shopping” (column); The Happy Booker (December 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (August 2006)
“On Being the Asshole” (guest blogger); The Happy Booker (July 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (May 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (April 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (March 2006)
"Poet on Poets" (on Amy Gerstler); Beatrice (February 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (February 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (January 2006)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (December 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (November 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (October 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (September 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (August 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (July 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (June 2005)
"Crucial Rooster" (monthly poetry column); The Happy Booker (May 2005)
"Give the Boot to the Muse; Behold the Power of Duende" (essay); Drunken Boat (Issue # 4, 2002)
Book Reviews
Second-Hand Souls by Nichita Danilov (review); NewPages (July 5, 2004)
Fire Eater by Kathleen Jesme (review); NewPages (February 1, 2004)
Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees by James Reidel (review); NewPages (February 1, 2004)
Father of Noise by Anthony McCann (review); NewPages (February 1, 2004)
Reb Livingston is the author of God Damsel (No Tell Books, 2010), Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007), Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut Chapbook Series, 2006), among other titles. Her work appears in literary magazines and her poem ”That’s Not Butter“ appears in The Best American Poetry 2006 (Scribner). She has Creative Writing degrees from Bennington (MFA) and Carnegie Mellon (BA).
She keeps a poetry blog that is updated on a regular basis.
From 2004-2011, Reb and Molly Arden edited No Tell Motel, an online poetry journal devoted to meaningful and discreet poetic encounters, and the The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel anthology series.
Reb is the editor and publisher of No Tell Books.
Interviews available at The Library of Congress (audio), Bookslut, Galatea Resurrects, Barrelhouse, The Coachella Review, HTMLGIANT (with Ryan Call) and (with Rauan Klassnik), What to Wear During an Orange Alert, Harriet, Mipoesias, Here Comes Everybody, The Scrambler, Very Like a Whale, The Best American Poetry, Poets & Artists, horse less notes, Shikow, Bigmouth Indeed Strikes Again, Business of Words (audio) and CruelestMonth.com.
Audio of poems can be heard at Internet Archive (Bard College), PennSound, Emergency Reading Series, Out of Our Minds (91.5FM KKUP), The Joe Milford Poetry Show and From the Fishouse.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she now resides in the greater Washington, D.C. area with her husband and son. Once she worked for America Online. Although that was a long time ago.
I am writing a psychic memoir. This is not a memoir about my being psychic, but a memoir written using psychic processes. There were several aborted beginnings to this project. This is what I’m currently doing.
