Review of Hold It Down at Fanzine

Laura Carter writes, "Part of this book wants what’s permanent, wants to make memory from sorrow. Yet part of this book knows that the world is about moving on from the past." You can read her full review of Hold It Down here.

Poetry Month Discussion

Back in April, I did a google hangout with poets Greg Bem, Amber Nelson, and Jared White for National Poetry Month. In it, we read for about ten minutes each, and then we follow the readings with a brief discussion. If you missed out on the live hangout, you can view it on YouTube.


**After posting this I discovered the screen doesn't fit with my blog template, so you can jump to the YouTube page here.

"Holding It Down" at Guernica!

The amazing and kind Keith Meatto interviewed me about my new book, Hold It Down, at Guernica. You can read the interview here.

And if you're interested, you can purchase Hold It Down for $15 here. It's also available as part of the spring package, which comes with books by Serena Chopra, Amber Nelson, and Wendy Xu & Nick Sturm.

Review of Amy Lawless' My Dead at Fanzine

"Bookended by long meditations on death and mourning, the book carries throughout it a solemnity as it explores themes of loss, love, loneliness, and anxiety. However, a book so overtly about death also has a lot to say about living." --a tiny snippet from my review of Amy Lawless' My Dead (Octopus Books, 2013). You can read the full review here.

This Friday: Reading at SCAD's Ivy Hall

This Friday, May 3rd at 7:30 pm, Molly Brodak and I will be reading at Ivy Hall (179 Ponce de Leon Ave., N.E., Atlanta, GA). Here's the info from the Facebook page:

Ivy Hall, SCAD Atlanta's writing and cultural arts center, presents the latest work from two of Atlanta's most exciting poets: Molly Brodak and Gina Myers. 

Brodak is the winner of the 2009 Iowa Poetry Prize for her collection A Little Middle of the Night. Her poems have appeared recently in FIELD, Kenyon Review Online, Colorado Review, The Collagist, Ninth Letter and elsewhere.

Myers is the author of A Model Year (Coconut Books, 2009), and several chapbooks, including False Spring (Spooky Girlfriend, 2012). Her second full-length book, Hold It Down, will be published by Coconut Books in May. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she runs Lame House Press and helps edit Coconut Magazine.

The event is free and open to the public.

Interview w/Luke Daly

At Frontier Psychiatrist, I spoke to Luke Daly about book arts, small press publishing, and Chicago's Spudnik Press Annex. You can read the interview here.

Susan Briante on Hold It Down

"Like a flâneur walking an abandoned shopping mall past boarded up storefronts, Gina Myers surveys the streets of late capitalism recording wreckage in work that gives voice to our disappointment, fear, and longing for a place where we might find some rest. 'A kitchen table does not make a home,' Myers reminds us. Moving 'in and out of/ the security camera’s range,' from Brooklyn to Saginaw, the poems in Hold It Down trace our 'boom & bust, minus/the boom' and serve as testimony for 'those of us who still live here' at the edges of the economy." —Susan Briante