Each December, since I began The Writing Life in 2004, I have compiled a year-end list of happenings and achievements. Here’s what I can remember, with the help of calendars and emails, of 2013. These are just bullet points, really. The work involved kept me extremely busy. And most importantly, I have continued the real work of writing, achieving stylistic breakthroughs that are infusing my new work. I continue to follow the words.
What a year! I have left burnt rubber behind me.
New and Continuing Activities
NEW! Editor, MadHat Lit
NEW! Poetry Editor, MadHat Annual
NEW! Co-coordinator, Acadiana Wordlab
Founder, Director Voices Seasonal Readings Series at Carpe Diem, 2012-present
Teaching Artist, Acadiana Center for the Arts, 2011- present
Coordinator, Words of Fire, Words of Water, the literary component of the Fire and Water Rural Arts Celebration in Arnaudville, LA, December 2012- present
Publications
“Of Lint,” after LUBA ZYGAREWICZ’s “Petrified Time: 12 Years of My Life, Folded and Neatly Stacked,” sculpture/stacked dryer lint, tags and rope, Louisiana Aesthetic
“Naked” Verse Daily February 9th
“4 Signs Your Heart is Quietly Failing” Technoculture (text and audio)
“The Bird in My Ribcage” Swamp Lily (reprint)
“As We Are” and “The Bird in My Ribcage” Vision/Verse Anthology
Four poems featured on former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, Darrell Bourque’s radio program “From the Poet’s Bookshelf” which airs on KRVS www.krvs.org
Public Readings
Rosa Keller Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
Voices Seasonal Reading Series, Lafayette, LA
Café Mosaic, LSU-E Reading Series, Eunice, LA
Midwinter Poetry Night, A & E Gallery, New Iberia, LA
Festival of Words Reading Series, Grand Coteau, LA
Asheville Word Fest, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville, NC
Le Mot, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
River Writers Reading Series, Baton Rouge, LA
Words of Fire/Words of Water, Arnaudville, LA
Blood Jet Poetry Series, New Orleans, Louisiana
Etc.
Presented “A World of Words: Express Yourself!” to 9th – 12th Graders at Northside High School
Interviewed for “The Extra Mile” on Acadiana Open Channel
Clare L. Martin 
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