March 2012
INTERVIEW ME
hi follovers!
for a recent publication in a literary journal, i need to write a self-interview. i’m required to ask myself & answer ten questions. the thing is - i spend my life asking and answering questions to and about myself (aka existential/feminist anxiety). i’m far more interested in what other people want to know - what ways YOU can challenge my intrsopectiveness and ask...
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noratherese asked: I loved your "What the Hour Hand Said to the Minute Hand" poem! Glad you liked my post so I could stumble across your tumblr-- excited to read more of your stuff!
“It’s exhausting loving someone
who is constantly running away.”
– Megan Falley, from “What the Hour Hand Said to the Minute Hand” (via fleurishes)
yo, do you know that you can currently pre-order the book that this quote comes from on amazon for probably cheaper than it will ever be right here? do you know that you can book the author of it (that’s me,...
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MEGAN FALLEY [ON ICE!]: WHAT THE HOUR HAND SAID TO... →
exia:
WHAT THE HOUR HAND SAID TO THE MINUTE HAND
At 7:35 A.M, you lay your tired body on mine
before peeling off, like a slow band-aid.
At 8:40 you sprint home and make instant coffee.
At 9:45 we finally drink it, cold.
I finish your leftover half.
By 10:50 you are already breathless.
I live for every time we overlap.
When 11:55 comes I spend the entire minute convincing you to...
“You were last seen walking through a field of pianos. No. A museum of mouths. In...”
– “new york craigslist > personals > missed connections,” Megan Falley (via shinjimoon)
whoa. this popped up in my tags with over 2,000 notes and now i’m wondering if i should regret not putting it in my upcoming book? but alas! every poem in the new book is better. you can pre-order...
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"yo, don't take this the wrong way, but before you...
This has happened to me a few times, most often when I am the only woman competing in a poetry slam. I’ve never known exactly how to respond to this misogynistic insult masquerading as a compliment, but I’ve always sort of internalized it to mean this: “wow. i wasn’t expecting you to command a room. i wasn’t expecting your voice to have power. wasn’t expecting you to speak with authority, to say...
sometimes i tweet
@megan_falley
Shit Stevie Likes: WRITE BLOODY OPEN SUBMISSIONS... →
stevietheclumsy:
Write Bloody’s annual Open Submissions Contest closes tomorrow! This is the contest that I won last year and landed me my first boo and two of my best friends (Benjamin Clark and and Laura Yes Yes) won the year before. Write Bloody is a really lovely family that has been incredibly supportive of…
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“Megan Falley writes with uncommon bravery. Playful, sensual, raucous—and...”
– -Jeanann Verlee, author of Racing Hummingbirds, winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for poetry.
After the Witch Hunt is receiving some stunning reviews. You can pre-order your copy of my Write Bloody Book here.
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TWO EXCITING THINGS.
mileswalser:
SO EXCITING, THEY WARRANT MOMENTARY CAPS-LOCK.
phewf.
1. Today, one of my poems was featured on Indiefeed! Check it out here.
2. THIS WEDNESDAY, 3/14, I will be featuring at Sarah Lawrence (8pm at Teahaus) Be there. It’ll be dope.
“If you really love a writer, bury her in all your awful and watch as she scrawls...”
– Megan Falley (via her-seaside-limbs) 