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elizabeth tannen is a freelance writer, editor, activist and teacher, based in minneapolis.

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april 20, 2018: here's a crazy sweet wild thing that happened: my poetry manusript, Notes on Distance, is a finalist for Milkweed's Lindquist & Vennum Prize!  

february 14, 2018: it's Valentine's Day and I have a new poem up at Gabby! 

february 7, 2018: Jim Walsh wrote a profile of me about love letters and other rambles for the Southwest Journal

january 15, 2018: new blog post On Being Bread for Each Other

october 19, 2017: I wrote a blog post and it has zero things to do with dating but is about grasping and what it means to be white and what it means to be content! take a peek!?

september 16, 2017: I'll be participating in this year's Minneapolis Lit Crawl as part of a panel of poets giving life advice. drop by Trapeze (next to Barbette) at 8 pm!

may 12, 2017: well, this happened four months ago but i just entered final grades for the semester so i'm only remembering to share it now! video from my Loft Mentor Series reading is here

december 24, 2016: mark your calendars! I'll be reading with two heroes at the Loft on February 3rd: dear friend and nonfiction writer Erin Sharkey, and acclaimed novelist (and first woman to win the Thurber Prize!) Julie Schumacher. please come! 

september 5, 2016: it won't be out until October 2017, but I'm celebrating now -- just got word that kickass journal Copper Nickel will publish my poem "Dear Wisconsin" !! 

august 16, 2016: i'm not sure i've ever wanted anything quite as much as i wanted to win the Loft Mentor Series Award in Poetry this year, so i'm pretty ridiculously excited that i did !!!

july 13, 2016: new blog post on breaks, cabins, and evolving/overlapping incarnations of self

may 24, 2016: the B O D Y poems are up!

may 20, 2016: exciting news! my poem, "Dear You," was chosen as a finalist in The Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize! the poem will appear in their Winter 2017 issue.

may 12, 2016: my good friend and I got into a minor bike accident, we're both fine, and I blogged about the kindness of strangers!

march 15, 2016: more poems on the way! B O D Y Literature will publish two newbies, Dear Lake of the Isles and Dear inexorable problema of modern love. stay tuned! 

january 14, 2016: great poetry news today! the lovely, locally edited journal Poetry City, USA will publish my poem "Snow Day" in their sixth issue...

december 30, 2015: I wrote a new blog post about commitment and it's mainly a vehicle for boasting about some supposed physical resemblance to Alma Clooney. thanks. 

november 1, 2015: the new issue of THIS. magazine is out, and it features my poem, Fishing, along with a beautiful illustration that I had nothing to do with! 

october 21, 2015: wanna read an awkwardly flattering profile of yours truly? check it out at The Loft Literary Center's blog

october 21, 2015: new poems are up in the Fall issue of Compose! 

august 25, 2015: new poem, called Metaphor, up on Extract(s) today!

august 3, 2015: two of my poems will be included in the Fall 2015 issue of Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing

july 30, 2015: new blog on wisdom in one's 30s, and a bonus bday message

july 9, 2015: new blog post! on feelings and being unoriginal, or something

may 18, 2015: good news! favorite journal Southern Humanities Review will be publishing a favorite poem of mine, called "Riddle." stay tuned for a pub date! 

may 12, 2015: new blog post, in praise of being open

may 8, 2015: i'll be participating in this awesome event: 33 Twin Cities poets reading one poem each. come if you can! 

march 22, 2015: i went on a binge of online dates and then i wrote a blog post about it :)

march 17, 2015: just got word that the new, beautiful THIS magazine will be publishing a poem of mine. stay tuned!

march 12, 2015: new blog, on the knicks, the new yorker, and on kawara

february 27, 2015: the wonderful Vela Mag included my Rumpus essay in their round-up of this week's writing by women. their description of the piece has me blushing

february 26, 2015: new blog post! on mantras, mondays and gym friends

february 22, 2015: check out/read/share this new essay on The Rumpus! it's adapted from my memoir manuscript and took me, oh, four years to get right. thanks!





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