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Siel Ju’s publications and events

  • Rhapsodomancy reading, Los Angeles, Mar. 21, 2015

    Siel Ju Rhapsodomancy Los Angeles March 2015

  • I’m Reading at Rhapsodomancy March 21

    Come to the first Rhapsodomancy reading of the year!

    I’ll be reading with poet and translator Jen Hofer. In addition to reading, we’ll be chatting about connections and disconnections — You can read a bit more about what’ll be happening on Rhapsodomancy’s website.

    When: Saturday, March 21, 2015, 8 pm – 10 pm
    Where: Writ Large Press HQ, 722 S. Los Angeles St. #312, Los Angeles

    Make sure you RSVP on Facebook because you’ll need a phone number — disclosed on the day of the event — to get in. There will be some snacks, a cash bar for beer and wine, and me. Hope to see you there.

  • Two poems in Gargoyle

    gar62My copy of Gargoyle #62 finally arrived in my mailbox — after a little detour to my former apartment. Thanks to the postal service for sending it on!

    The 394-page thick issue has within its covers two poems of mine: “A Reading” and “A Drinking Solo.” Here are three lines from a poem:

    Water under the ridge, I say. It’s a day
    when the news fills with familiar
    terrors: suicide, parricide, coincide.

    The issue — edited by Richard Peabody — also contains work by Nin Andrews, Thaisa Frank, and many many others. Pick up a copy at Gargoyle for about $20.

  • Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit

    Siel Ju Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit chapbookMy second chapbook, Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit, came out late last year from Dancing Girl Press!

    You can read a sampling of the poems at Hobart, The Missouri Review, Pank, and other journals, where some of the poems in the chapbooks were originally published.

    Based in Chicago, Dancing Girl Press publishes a chapbook series “to publish and promote the work of women writers and artists.” Other L.A.-based Dancing Girl poets include Lauren Eggert-Crowe (In the Songbird Laboratory) and Lisa Cheby (Love Lessons From Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The three of us plan to do a Dancing Girl reading in 2015 — so look out for us!

    Get Feelings from Dancing Girl Press for $7.

  • Two poems in So and So

    So and So‘s latest issue just launched with two of my poems: “Assignation” and “Santa Monica.” Here are three lines from a poem:

    What clings to the brick wall is gray. How plastic
    numbers shuffle across tables, collecting
    fingerprints.

    Read the rest at So and So — which also has great new work by Amy Lawless (“His fingers are small matte pigs”) and Adam Soldofsky (“Incredible lengths of time are pressed into your head”) and other poets —

  • The Supplies in Juked

    My short story, “The Supplies,” is now up in Juked! It’s about temping and driving and making out. Here’s an excerpt:

    Driving to Roy’s that afternoon I felt a connection to everyone I saw, a deeper sort of understanding about our relatedness that didn’t need to be defined in concrete, hierarchical terms. I took time to notice the people inside the cars, their little fidgety preoccupations. Here we all were on our various paths, which weren’t so much paths but rather oneiric somnambulations, bumping gently along in the manner of benign bacteria. This is the attitude I should have had all along, I thought, just saying yes to whatever wanted to happen, not in an overt or grabby way, but in a more acquiescent, shrugging manner.

    Juked is an indie lit journal, with new work going up weekly. Dig through its archives for works by Aimee Bender, Tao Lin, and other writers I like.