Julie Marie Wade
New Poetry Coming in Spring 2025!
I'll be joining Denise Duhamel after her launch of Pink Lady to share some poems from our forthcoming collaborative chapbook, The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020!
You can register to attend this reading with Krysten Hill, Denise Duhamel, and me at The Besty Hotel on South Beach or livestream on Facebook. Details below:
https://www.thebetsywritersroom.com/otoeventcalendar/swwim-january-2025
I'll be in conversation with my former thesis student Yael Valencia Aldana about her debut poetry collection, Black Mestiza, on Saturday, February 2nd at 5 PM at Books and Books in Coral Gables!
Black Mestiza releases January 21, 2025 on the University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series:
AHEAD IN 2025...
*I'll be reading from The Mary Years at Carmichael's Bookstore (2720 Frankfort Avenue) in Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday, February 27th at 7 PM.
*I'll be chairing and presenting on a panel called "Hybrid Forms, Hybrid Selves: Queer and Feminist Possibilities of the Prose Poem" with Allison Blevins, Sophie Khlar, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Vi Khi Nao at the Association for Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, March 27th from 10:35-11:50 AM. Los Angeles Convention Center, Level 2, Room 503.
*I'll be signing copies of The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020, co-authored with Denise Duhamel, with Denise Duhamel at the AWP Book Fair (Los Angeles Convention Center, Level 1) on Friday, March 28th from 2:00-3:00 PM.
New News, Good News
Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House Press, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize, was named a finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, the 2024 BIG OTHER Nonfiction Book Prize, the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction, and the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Prize for the Art of the Essay.
The Mary Years has been the subject of several recent interviews, including one with Chris Hewitt at Minnesota Star-Tribune, Leslie Pietrzyk at Work In Progress, and Travis Cohen & Michael Cuervo at Gulf Stream Magazine:
http://www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2024/10/tbr-mary-years-by-julie-marie-wade.html
https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/category/issue-35/
It was a joy to read poems from Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018) alongside Denise Duhamel at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Thursday, January 9, 2025. Here's the recording of our poetry readings and conversation about poetry, pedagogy, lyric essay, and collaboration with St. Petersburg Poet Laureate Helen Pruitt Wallace and the lively audience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmyPOhoT8Vw
Old News, Good News
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Here's a video of me reading my poem"When I Was Straight" for the FIU MFA faculty reading series:
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Check out a reading and interview I did with the Stonewall National Museum & Archives here.
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Take a look at my micro-memoir "Yentl," published in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction here.
One of the happiest pieces of news I've received in recent months is that my hybrid-forms project P*R*I*D*E won the inaugural Hunger Mountain Chapbook Prize. It was released during June 2020 (Pride Month!) in a limited-edition volume (with stunning cover designed by Kelly McMahon) to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting by name and likeness.
“This collection of poetic microessays is the hybridity we need right now—lyric & narrative, real & imagined, fierce & tender, in love with the world & critical of it, so much fun & deadly serious. I admire Wade’s range of timbres, the ways this collage makes me feel validated & seen, & how much PRIDE makes me hopeful for a better future.”
—Erin Stalcup, Hunger Mountain Editor
For a short video demonstrating how perfect this book looks, click here.
And after this video inspires you to learn more about the book designer, check out May Day Studio in Montpelier, Vermont.
