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Jessie Glenn attended Reed College and Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Her book publicity work has been highlighted in Poets & Writers Magazine, Annie Jenning’s EliteWire, AWP, and numerous “Ask the Expert” articles. She was picked as a judge for the IndieReader Discovery Awards the Women's Fiction Rising Star Awards and in an unrelated twist, she was also a contestant on MasterChef season 3. Jessie teaches a Master's level book publicity class for Portland State University's Masters in Publishing degree. In additional to her own writing clips in NYT Modern Love, WaPo, Toronto Star and elsewhere, Jessie is a comfortable, well practiced public speaker, media coach and takes on select PR repping positions for notable clients.

Monday, May 19, 2008

The 6th D'Merde Party Notes


The 6th D'Merde was really amazing. I now have a monster and electric bunny mural of the front of the salon and it is incredible.

Halfway through the readings we decided to move up to the salon roof because it was so hot. Mykle read his piece (really good, really funny) from a rooftop wading pool.

The absinthe girl was awesome, and though there never seems to be enough for anyone, the bloody weapons were a great touch.

The final readings were outside on the patio; Viva's piece about Miss Mona Superhero was terrific. The Underscore Orkestra played two sets. As an aside, Go See This Band if you haven't yet. Geeze. They are really the heart and soul of D'Merde. And I like being dipped when I dance... ;)

All in all there were about 100 people who attended.

Most people left at 11:30 (the good lil boys and girls) but a few stayed on and started blasting Iron Maiden while improvising a sort of idol worship of a random sculpture they found in the salon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

the iron maiden circle is hilarious- I wish I could have seen it- is their video?

Maybe that represents the death knell of post modernism

What genre are you reading?

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