JESSICA PIAZZA
BIO
Jessica Piazza is the author of three poetry collections: Interrobang, This is not a sky, and Obliterations (with Heather Aimee O'Neill), as well as the children's book Olivia Otter Builds Her Raft. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jessica now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at the University of Southern California. She co-founded Bat City Review (Austin, TX) and Gold Line Press (Los Angeles, CA), and curates Poetry Has Value, which focuses on the intersections of poetry, money and worth. She is the recipient of the Amy Clampitt residency, and is working on a new poetry collection and a novel. Her poems have most recently appeared in Best American Poetry, Smartish Pace and 32 Poems.
Poetry & Prose
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Join Berkshire Magazine editor Anastasia Stanmeyer and poet Jessica Piazza in a session of talking, reading, sharing, and writing. Jessica is professor at the University of Southern California and is the most recent poet-resident at the Amy Clampitt house in Lenox. During those six months, she has been writing, meditating, and exploring. She will share some of her work and talk about the importance of writers—anybody—to take time off and let their mind wander. Workshop participants will spend time writing about what makes them feel pressured, what frees them, what calms them, what hinders their inner creativity, and what unleashes it. Physiologically speaking, freestyle writing slows you down and helps clear your mind. In meditation, thoughts surface and dissipate. In writing, the creative expression of these thoughts is recorded and allows for more robust inner expression.
June 18, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Kripalu
57 Interlaken Rd
Stockbridge, MA 01262
PRESS, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS
THE LIT FANTASTIC: CONVERSATIONS
Podcast Interview with Neil Aitken
The Lit Fantastic
ART, OBSESSION, AND BRAVERY IN WRITING
Interview
Esme Wang : The Unexpected Shape
A WRITERLY FRIENDSHIP: JESSICA PIAZZA AND JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM
Interview (with Jill Alexander Essbaum)
Rain Taxi
POINT BLANK SONNETS: JESSICA PIAZZA'S INTERROBANG
Review of Interrobang by K.B. Thors
THEthe Poetry
THE SUNDAY RUMPUS REVIEW: INTERROBANG
Review of Interrobang by Mag Gabbart
The Rumpus
REVIEW OF THIS IS NOT A SKY
Review of This is not a sky by Donna Vorryer
Stirring Magazine
REVIEW OF OBLITERATIONS
Review of Obliterations by Sonja Johanson
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
ERASING THE TIMES: OBLITERATIONS
Review of Obliterations by Peggy Dobreer
Poetry Flash
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