KC Trommer
Winter 2013
NEWS NEWS NEWS

+ My story, "The Wild Dogs," was selected as one of the winners of the Table 4 Writers Foundation’s first annual writing contest. Thank you, good people of Table 4 for liking the story!
Fall 2012
NEWS NEWS NEWS

+ My manuscript Puncture was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2012 Felix Pollack Prize, judged by Jean Valentine.

+ Fall Reading - Jackson Heights Poetry Festival

I'll be reading in JH on Tuesday, September 4, as the featured reader for the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival. Here's the JH Poetry Festival's blog.

Thanks for the write-up, DNA Info! And then, hey, hey the JH Poetry Festival made the Times. Great mentions of the amazing Honor Molloy, whose book Smarty Girl should be read and loved.

Hear my JH Poetry Festival Reading Set at SoundCloud.
Spring 2012
NEWS NEWS NEWS

+ "The Wild Dogs" was a finalist for the 2012 Sidney Prize, judged by Richard Nash.

+ "We Leg It Up the Hillside to Kill My Darlings" was a finalist for Gigantic Sequins' First Annual Poetry Contest, judged by Nick Flynn. Thanks, Mr. Flynn. Really Very Large Sequins
Summer 2011
NEWS NEWS NEWS

UnderwaterNewYork Reading at Poets House

I will be reading Wednesday, August 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Poets House (10 River Terrace, NYC) with several other poets--including Matthea Harvey and Cate Marvin--who have written for UnderwaterNewYork. If you are free, please come out for a listen. Thanks, BOMB, for the mention.


Broadsides, Emerging

A broadside of my poem "Meat Cove, Cape Breton" is available for pre-sale from Aaron Cohick of NewLights Press.

The print is part of a new series of text-image-process-object broadsides. There will be five broadsides in this series featuring poetry and prose by: Brian Evenson, Brenda Iijima, Justin Sirois, KC Trommer, and John Yau.

More details are on the NewLights blog.

+ "First Map" awarded an honorary mention in the 2011 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition.
Winter 2011
NEWS NEWS NEWS

+ My manuscript Puncture was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2011 Perugia Press Prize for a first or second book of poetry by a woman. It was also a finalist for the 2011 Vassar Miller Prize, judged by Lisa Russ Spaar.

+ Along with several other Queens writers, I'll be reading on Wednesday, February 9, at the inaugural reading of Commas & Coffee, sponsored by Alia Akkam of the QNote. The reading starts at 7 in the downstairs performance space of Cafe Marlene, 41-11 49th Street in Sunnyside. RSVP to info(at)theqnote(dot)com to secure a cozy seat! We have a mention in the Daily News . . .

+ Get yer mits on Two Weeks, A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, featuring poems and recordings. My poem "What the Body Knows" is included, along with Donald Illich's recording of my poem (lovely--and no poet voice!) and my reading of Rose Hunter's "Vulcanology". If you don't have a Kindle, you can read the book using one of Amazon's Kindle apps for the PC, Mac, iPad, or iPhone. It was a completely novel experience for me to submit poems, get a speedy response, and then to see my work in print in two weeks. Nice work, fellas! Other poesy publishers, please take note!
Summer 2010
"Latitudes" will be featured in this year's Portrait of the Exquisite, a juried show for Sunnyside, from June 13-July 18. I will be selling work at the Art Fair III, part of the Queens Art Express on Sunday, June 13 from 1-5 p.m.
Spring 2010
+ The stitcher par excellance, Iviva Olenick, is stitching up some of my poems, starting with "Baker's Dozen," a triolet.

+ The Hasp Tongue was a finalist for the Vassar Miller Prize in poetry, judged by J.D. McClatchy.

+ "Bouquet of Needles" featured in "Artistic Endeavors: Trice Collective," a Storque article about Sawyer Trice's Trice Collective a curated website that functions as an aggregator of quality art available for online purchase.

92nd Street Y reading

On April 7, at 7 p.m., in room S101 at the 92nd Street Y, I will read with several other poets in the culminating event for a poetry course that I have been taking with Grace Schulman. For the past several months, I have been meeting with Grace one-on-one, as have the other members of the class. We shared at the beginning of the course; this is a talented group. The April 7th reading at the Y will showcase work that we have written or revised thanks to Grace's excellent tutelage. If you're free, it's free. I hope to see you there!

Flash Mob Poetry

Since spring is springing up everywhere, I am thinking of organizing some flash mob poetry readings at locations around the city Readers could their own work or the work of other poets. If you're interesting in participating or being informed of when and where the mobs o' poesy will happen, please shoot me an email.