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New Country for Old Ben is the blog I used to document my life in Tianjin, China in 2008 and 2009. If my current Kickstarter campaign is successful, I will use this blog to document my travels and my poetry project in Tianjin this summer.
About me
My name is Ben Cartwright. I am a poet and a fiction writer, and I live in Topeka, Kansas. My writing has appeared in Sentence, DMQ Review, The Stinging Fly, Midwestern Gothic, and other fine places. I was awarded the 2012 Ana Damjanov Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, in conjunction with the University of Kansas. I produce the Kansas Blotter Audio podcast, a collection of recordings of poets and writers working in and around Lawrence, Kansas, where William S. Burroughs' house still stands. I have also recorded poets such as Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Fred Moten, and Kenneth Irby for the PennSound archive through the University of Pennsylvania.
Tea & Gin Kickstarter project
blogs of others
- Bemsha SWING [Jonathan Mayhew]
- Blog of Myself [Joseph Harrington]
- Bradley Denton
- Candy Skulls [Sanford Allen]
- Come Rolf With Me [Daniel Rolf]
- Confessions of a Tattooed Mennonite [Becca J.R. Lachman]
- Cyberabad [Ian McDonald]
- Denise Low Postings [Denise Low]
- Hang Windows from the Sky with Yarn [Mary Stone Dockery]
- Jess Walter
- Kevin Rabas
- Kij Johnson
- Lacy M. Johnson
- Louise Amends [Louise Krug]
- Mark Hennessy
- McKitterick's Blog [Christopher McKitterick]
- mlle megan [Megan Kaminski]
- Muddled Ramblings [Jerry Seeger]
- New York Peristalsis [David McLoughlin]
- Radius [Dennis Etzel]
- Robert Glick
- The Way the Future Blogs [Frederik Pohl]
- Writing in the Wild [Ben Pfeiffer]
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Posts
1 comment:
Hey, Ben! Great new post! I especially like the picture that shows all that paper--fireworks leftovers?--on the ground. How have things been going with you lately? You're teaching up a storm? Is Erin okay? (I saw something on facebook that seemed to say that she had injured her ankle.)
Oh, and the kitties say hello. At the mo, Teena is on my lap and Jovi is on my feet. (They've become true glomm artists now that it's getting a bit colder.)
I'm sorry I haven't written to you about your short fiction yet. I really like what you're doing, but I just have to sit down, re-read the stuff, and get you some comments back.
Oh, and thanks for commenting on my craptastic blahg! I just added a new post--and I intend to write on it a bit more often. (Especially since my writing's been going so stupidly lately.)
But I hope you're well. I'm not looking forward to a Benless and Erinless Halloween at all.
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