new story, new e-chapbook

Hello!

Hope everybody is well. I'm on my way out the door, but I wanted to post these before I forgot:

I've got a new short story up at the fantastic Essaysandfictions.com. This is my story about the pregnant mermaid, so you know it's gotta be, well, um, I'm not sure.

Also, I have an e-chapbook up at Gold Wake Press. It's a poetic treatment of Wong Kar-Wai's beautiful film 2046, though I think you can still enjoy it without having seen the movie. But have you seen the movie?

Okie dokie, that's all I got for now. Thanks for checking in!

New poem in Diagram!

http://www.thediagram.com/10_5/martin.html

This one is different than my usual fare, but I still like it. :)

facebooking

Hey there--

If anybody reads this blog and would like to add me on FB, feel free. My page is:

http://www.facebook.com/erinlyndalmartin

Please do click "add a personal message" and let me know how you know me so I don't think you're a random sketchy internet person. :)

the winged painter is on

Hi all--

Hope the summer is going well for you.

I'm just back from a wonderful trip to Madison, WI to see old friends (and eat at old favorite restaurants!). There is even a new-to-me veggie paradise restaurant named The Green Owl, and they deserve a shoutout for all their amazing food and beer. As long as I'm giving shoutouts to Madison restaurants, let it be on the record that I always love going to The Weary Traveler, Motherfool's (coffeehouse), Baraka, and Monty's, to name a few. One of the trip's highlight's was a behind-the-scenes look at the new children's museum, which isn't open yet. My friend Erika Koivunen is doing some metal art projects there and gave me a tour--it made me so happy to see so many local artists working really hard to make a truly magical place. Plus there is a delish crepe place across the street, yeah! (All about the food!)

So, yes, I am trying to move back to Madison for many reasons. I've been applying for jobs both there and here since Blacksburg is still a great place to live (don't take my potential exodus as an anti-recommendation). Fingers crossed that somebody needs an adjunct in comp or creative writing this fall.

While I was in Madison, I did a phone interview with Rufus Wainwright. It was brief but he seemed really nice--he was quite nice when I met him briefly in 2001 when he was opening for Tori Amos. Here is the interview:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/128673-im-never-quite-sure-what-to-expect-an-interview-with-rufus-wainwrigh/

And, recently posted, here is the interview I did with Xiu Xiu a few months back:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/124492-dear-god-i-love-xiu-xiu/

And here is a poem in the latest issue in Typo, which has always been one of my favorite literary magazines:

http://www.typomag.com/issue14/

'Til next time!

Change of time, love

I'm sitting outside a cafe, staring at a parking lot, drinking iced coffee, and listening for the millionth time to Josh Ritter's new album So Runs the World Away. 

I need to blog more, which is not the same as saying that I lead a fascinating existence.

I felt like my brain was turning to mush (and this was even after I managed to give up America's Next Top Model, thank you very much) so I pulled out the Books I Don't Understand from moving boxes that will never get unpacked.  I've been spending the week with Kristeva's "Revolution in Poetic Language" and Elizabeth Grosz's Time Travels. Both are strangely exciting, though I'd be hard-pressed to actually summarize the Kristeva.

I'm definitely ready to work again, but we'll see what that looks like. I doubt there are any adjunct openings nearby for summer, but hopefully by fall I'll have made contact and found a few classes to pick up. In the meantime, I strangely miss working in a cafe, so I'm hoping that plan will come through for the summer.

It's my birthday!

All day long!

New story in H_ngm_n

Hello all--

I have a short story up in the latest edition of the fantastic H_ngm_n, edited by poet extraordinaire Nate Pritts. Here's the link to my story:

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n10/erin-lyndal-martin.html

Though it's just being published now, this is a story I wrote quite some time ago. It took me a while to find a home for it, though I'm quite happy with the one it found. This was the story that really got me started writing short stories in a way that stuck. While all my stories are my favorites in some way, this one holds a special place for me because of that.