1) I highly recommend freerice.com. They have a pretty challenging English vocabulary game that gets progressively harder as you go. Lately, I keep getting stuck in the upper 40's, but before Cornell I would get stuck in the upper 30's. That an Ivy League education at work. Also, for each question you get right they donate 10 grains of rice to the World Food Programme, so you can feel slightly less guilty sitting on your ass in front of the computer when you could be out saving the world or something.

2) From the Fishouse is an audio archive of emerging writers. They have a very diverse range of youngish poets. A few of my favs that I suggest checking out are: Aracelis Girmay, Erika Meitner, Adrian Matejka, Jericho Brown, John Murillo, Patrick Rosal, Gregory Pardlo, and Terrance Hayes. They even have several live recordings of full-length readings at colleges and conferences, which I think are quite lovely to listen to while cleaning my apartment.  

3) Indiefeed has a great archive of performance poetry, including work from some of my favorite poets from the scene, like Marty McConnell, Roger Bonair-Agard, JW Basilo, Rachel McKibbens, Sierra DeMulder, Jon Sands, Emily Kagan Trenchard, and Lynne Procope (just to name a few).


PSA: Do not, under any circumstances go to Web MD.

Poet Stephanie Lane Sutton of the West Side School for the Desperate wrote a beautiful and glowing review of my forthcoming book, Good Grief. Check it out! 

A couple highlights. 
About Write Bloody
"Stevie Edwards was one of a handful to win the Write Bloody Manuscript Contest this past summer, which in the poetry world, is the equivalent to being signed to Matador or Kill Rock Stars circa 1990. For those of you who aren’t nerdy enough to understand my indie music reference: basically, your career is set, because Write Bloody not only has an emphasis on publishing some of the best living poets today, but also on touring, requiring its artists to do 20 shows a year, which usually includes a round or two of well-paying colleges dying to get a WB Artist in its auditorium. "

About my writing 
"Good Grief is a rarity among poetry books today. It doesn’t read like anything else I’ve read recently, from Pinsky to Wakefield–Edwards transcends that fueling debate that “spoken” or “page” poetry are genres at all, and what remains is an explosion of language that both defies academic standards while remaining consistently strong; each line and image, when isolated, remains flawless, obviously obsessed over to perfection, with an unmatched ability to penetrate readers and hit them in that poetry muscle that only flexes when in awe."

But go read the full article! Do it! It makes me blush all over. 

My chapbook Pain Needs to Remember (released February 2011, tiny house press) is now on sale for $5 + shipping (or you can buy them from me in person for $5). That's 44.44% off of $9. 

I can't believe it's been almost a year since this baby came out. I can't thank Stephen Pettinga at tiny house press enough for all the work he did to make this chapbook happen. We literally sat (me quite hungover) at his kitchen counter one Saturday afternoon and hand stitched the bindings together. They are very pretty. You should buy one. The poems aren't too bad either.