“Read this. It does what we want poetry to do, move us” - Vivee Francis on Big Energy Poets
BIG ENERGY POETS
BlazeVOX 2018
A song of mourning and fury, the Big Energy Poets anthology is an invitation to change the self—and the world—through embodied practice. Amidst ecological catastrophe, listen to the recordings of recently extinct animals while walking through Walmart; learn charms for hemlocks to ward off harm; discover the unfamiliar in the familiar in order to re-see; apologize to celery and strawberries. The body of the poem meets here the body of the world. -- Nomi Stone
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Contributors include: Stephen Collis, CAConrad, Adam Dickinson, Suzi F. Garcia, Brenda Hillman, Brenda Iijima, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Lucas de Lima, Eric Magrane, Joyelle McSweeney, Julie Patton, Evelyn Reilly, Linda Russo, Metta Sama, Kaia Sand, Kate Schapira, Jonathan Skinner, Cecilia Vicuna.
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Event held as group reading at the New Orleans Poetry Conference.
POETS FOR LIVING WATERS
April 2010, digital commemoration
Poets for Living Waters is a digital commemoration archiving the human affective response recorded in poetry to the BP Oil Disaster of April 20, 2010, one of the most profound man-made ecological catastrophes in history. The project includes hundreds of poetry and poetics publications, along with a series of international reading events. You can read more about the endeavor in“Poets Acts on Oil Spill” by Shell Fischer at the Poets & Writers website.
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Contributors include Annie Finch, Linda Hinton, Brenda Hillman, Karen Neuberg, Alicia Ostriker, Craig Santos Perez, Minnie-Bruce Pratt, Ariana Reines, Tom Savage, Jennifer Scappettone, Jonathan Skinner, Ron Silliman, Anne Waldman, Franz Wright.
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Event held for World Ocean Day at Unnameable Books, New York.
PRESSING ON
April 2010
Using a steam iron, permanent ink and 'locally thrown' trash, Pressing On produced twenty-five limited-edition broadsides of selected work from Poets for Living Waters.
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Weekly stitching events with local writers held in Heidi's living-room.
LITERARY PUBLISHING
Heidi has worked on the editorial staffs of The Georgia Review, Salt Hill Journal, and Verse, roles for which she evaluated, copy-edited and proofread manuscripts; participated in editorial meetings; corresponded with authors; and presented the publications at festivals, including AWP.
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SLASH PINE POETRY FESTIVAL
Heidi taught a small-press publishing course in which students produced a handbound anthology, Under the Magnolias, featuring their original works, and read from the collection as participants in the Slash Pine Poetry Festival, a local community arts event in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
EVENT MANAGEMENT
Heidi has several years experience organising the Helen Lanier Reading Series at the University of Georgia and the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at the University of Alabama. For these roles, she served as a main point of contact, corresponding with writers, organising travel arrangements, providing airport transportation, booking reservations, attending meals, contacting media and arranging payment.
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Guests included CA Conrad, Ross Gay, Lyn Hejinian, David Lehman, Ada Limón, Steve McCaffery, Paul Muldoon, and others.
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