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Welcome to My New Website

October 2, 2013

While I loved my old website, which I designed and built myself using Microsoft Frontpage and Dreamweaver in the early days of the interwebs, it was getting really arduous to update due to the Pleistocene-era software I was using.  So welcome to my brand new website, which runs on WordPress, and was designed and built by the fabulous Josh McCall.

Poems

September 30, 2013

Six poems at poets.org Five poems at Poetry Foundation Six poems at From the Fishouse Recent Poems “The Shape of Progress” – Electric Literature (2023) “Liquid Nitrogen” – The Ilanot Review (2023) “Letter on Space & the Body” and “What I’m saying is…” – Orion (2022) “Parts of a Body House” – The New Republic (2022) “Touch Cave” – The Slowdown (2022, with audio) …

Events

Fall 2023 Events

Sept 28 – Oct 15 – T.S. Eliot House Residency (Gloucester, MA)

Oct 15 – Oct 19 – Mandel Fellowship Retreat (Brookline, MA)

Oct 25 (Wed) – 7pm – Poets of Queens – QED Astoria, 27-16 23rd Ave (Queens, NY) – tickets here

Nov 2 (Thurs) – 4:30pm EST – Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose Series – Sanborn …

About Erika

Erika Meitner is an American poet and the author of six books of poems. She is also a professor of English at UW-Madison.