I just received this beautiful copy of Slippery Elm's inaugural issue in the mail yesterday. My poem "Rolling Stone Papa" is featured in it as well as lots of other gorgeous poems and short stories. I can't wait to sit down with a cup of tea and read it cover to cover. It's snowing... again! Nothing better than poetry and hot tea on a cold winter's day. If you'd like to snuggle up with a copy of your own, follow this link to Slippery Elm's site or mail a check for $10 to the address below:

Slippery Elm

The University of Findlay

1000 North Main St.

Mail Box 1615

David Essinger

Findlay, OH 45840

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the poem. 
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Izzy

I'm excited to share my piece on pornography, poetry, E.E. Cummings, D.H. Lawrence, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Lascaux Review with you guys! I love this publication-- fiction, flash fiction, essays, writing tips-- and I was pleased to work with its editors, crafting this knotty piece that incorporates so many topics in less than a 1,000 words. 

Please follow this link to read the essay and take time to check out their other excellent articles, stories, and poems. 

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Izzy

Please head over here to Every Day Fiction to read my Christmas/ Hanukkah-themed flash fiction story "A Lonely Jew at Christmas". 

I love working with the EDF site and am honored to have my story selected for their Christmas lineup. Not only do the editors provide their writers with invaluable feedback, but it's set up so that the readers can as well. Go ahead and leave me a comment if you have the chance, and let me know what you think. 

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Izzy

Every Day Poets is one of my favorite online journals to work with, and I've been lucky enough to work with them a bunch now. Over the past couple of years, the editors have provided me with lengthy, invaluable feedback, and the site is a daily source of inspiration, essays and poetry. I'm very excited they've accepted another one of my poems, live today here. 

"Project Shopaholic" is about the depletion of spirit endemic to consumer culture. Coincidentally, I participated in Anti-Black Friday this past week. It was a fun challenge not to spend a single dollar in New York City in one entire day. I'll be blogging about the experience at Brooklyn, Books, and Babies. 

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-Izzy

Interrupt Mag is the brainchild of Cameron Russell and provides a forum for alternative points of view. I recently wrote an article for them about my experience posing for The Village Voice's Queer Cover Issue in 2008, three years before gay marriage was legalized in New York State. Read the article here. And check out her brilliant TED talk here.


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 Izzy

My first attempt to scare you is up at Every Day Fiction. Please check it out here or here: http://www.everydayfiction.com/all-find-safety-in-the-tomb-by-isabella-david/

The title "All Find Safety in the Tomb" is of course borrowed from the recurring line in "Crazy Jane and the Bishop"-- that ghostly, gorgeous poem by Yeats with the most wonderful first line of any poem: "Bring me to the blasted oak". You can read the rest of the poem here.

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Izzy

Purchase a copy of Adbusters Magazine Issue #110 to read "Taxi Ride", a prose poem, available on newsstands now. 

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Izzy