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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 Nicole Steinberg is the author of Getting Lucky, now available from Spooky Girlfriend Press, and Birds of Tokyo (dancing girl press, 2011). She is also the editor of an anthology, Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, BOMB, Barrow Street, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. In 2012, her work was featured in Transhistoria, the Queens edition of the Guggenheim Museum’s ongoing project, stillspotting nyc. She’s the founder of Earshot, a New York reading series for emerging writers, and she currently lives in Philadelphia. I Need a Bill Murray Mostly to turn off the lights and make eggs. To take silent milk baths. To tell me I’m the jerk. To lie apart in bed because there are enough tangles. With eyes that speak only cruel or amused—sometimes both, because mean's okay—and a comb over, but I won't let that come between us. To remind me I'm the girl with these fucking rosy lips and all these serious veins. |