Poetry. LGBT Studies. Oblique Strategies is a card game invented in 1975, by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. "Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas" are printed on a pack of cards and offer a set of possibilities to apply "when a dilemma occurs in a working situation." THE TAKEAWAY BIN borrows from that concept, presenting poems that reply to various daily dilemmas, specific or obscure.
Author City: San Francisco, CA USA
Toni Mirosevich is the author of a book of nonfiction stories, Pink Harvest (MidList Press, First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award, 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist), three collections of poetry, My Oblique Stategies (Thorngate Road Press, Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award), Queer Street (Custom Words), The Rooms We Make Our Own (Firebrand Books) and co-author of Trio: Toni Mirosevich, Charlotte Muse, Edward Smallfield (Specter Press). Her multi-genre work has been anthologized in The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, Best American Travel Writing, The Gastronomica Reader, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, The Discovery of Poetry and has appeared in Kenyon Review, The Journal, Zyzzyva, Five Fingers Review, Puerto del Sol and other publications. She has been awarded fellowships with the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Espy Literary Foundation, was recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Lesbian Writer in Fiction Award, and has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and former Associate Director of the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. She lives with her wife, Shotsy Faust, in Pacifica, California.
Reviews and Other Links
author site
LJ Moore @ the San Francisco Examiner
audio [mp3]: interview by Eric Jansen, host of Out in the Bay, on KALW, 91.7 FM
Poetry Spotlight @ Lambda Literary
Matthew Perry @ The Rumpus
Jocelyn Heath @ Lambda Literary