Poetry Bio
Rachel Rosenberg: Poet! Lawyer! Super Hero? When witnessed live, Rachel is an animated poet who breathes life into her words to make them dance before the viewers’ eyes. And her voice: liquid excitement, tinted with the sweet burn of quality whiskey and a hint of Lauren Bacall.
Her poems are humorous, introspective, self-depreciating and sexy.... often at the same time. She will even make you weep - as you laugh. She will cause you to desire her as sister, best friend, lover, or rabbi....
Rachel has a quirky way of seeing the word and a marvelous way of stringing words and worlds together. To read or hear Rachel’s poems is to take up residency in her mind - which is a wild and wonderful place.
At evenings end, you might want to take her home. Feel free to feed her, but she is not meant for captivity and is at her best when roaming free, experiencing the world and translating it into poetry.
Rachel’s work has appeared in online and print publications and in three chapbooks: Piecemeal Poetry, Sugar & Spice & Everything Imprecise, and PULP.
-Duane Kirby Jensen, author of This is the Weight I Carry
Her poems are humorous, introspective, self-depreciating and sexy.... often at the same time. She will even make you weep - as you laugh. She will cause you to desire her as sister, best friend, lover, or rabbi....
Rachel has a quirky way of seeing the word and a marvelous way of stringing words and worlds together. To read or hear Rachel’s poems is to take up residency in her mind - which is a wild and wonderful place.
At evenings end, you might want to take her home. Feel free to feed her, but she is not meant for captivity and is at her best when roaming free, experiencing the world and translating it into poetry.
Rachel’s work has appeared in online and print publications and in three chapbooks: Piecemeal Poetry, Sugar & Spice & Everything Imprecise, and PULP.
-Duane Kirby Jensen, author of This is the Weight I Carry
Pubications
Chapbooks:
- Piecemeal Poetry
- Sugar & Spice & Everything Imprecise
- PULP
Journals:
- Persimmons, a Kenyon College literary magazine, Spring 2010
- “Her Lips are Ethernet Cables”
- Leaning House Press (under pseudonyms)
- As Marc Rainey:
- “Her Lips are Ethernet Cables”
- As Doris Isis Iris:
- “Ho Hum and Goodbye” from The Pine Trees of Longing
- The cover from The Pine Trees of Longing, Iris' fake book.
- “Peeking”
- “Ho Hum and Goodbye” from The Pine Trees of Longing
- As Marc Rainey:
- PIPE DREAM
- “The Good Girl.”
- The Sparrow Ghost Anthology, Vol. 1. Fall 2011.
- “Summer Sleeps”
- “He Brings Me Handfuls of Tissues”
- HOUSEFIRE
- “Some You Swallow, Some You Spit”
- The Sparrow Ghost Anthology, Vol II.
- “Painted Tattoos”
- Dead Snakes [http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/ ] 12/2/13
◦ “I am the rattle, you are the snake,” “Eve on my shoulders,” “snake palms” - The Smoking Poet
◦ “He Sits In My Shower” - Rapoetics/Penhead Press
◦ Issue 5 (The Prettiest Girl in the Room in Issue/Book #5 and Fantasy Girl online )
◦ “Fantasy Girl”
◦ “Prettiest Girl in the Room”
Features
- Word Out, a now-defunct poetry open mic in Portland, OR
- Milwaukie Grind Open Mic, a now-defunct poetry open mic in Portland, OR
- The Dirty Gerund, a poetry open mic and slam in Worcester, MA
- Kitchen Sessions, a poetry event put on periodically by Mike McGee, this time in Bellingham, WA on 3/30/13
- Reading with Lee Foust at Backspace 7/16/13
- Bellingham's Poetry Night 8/26/13
- Seattle Poetry Slam 8/27/13
- Rain City Slam 8/28/13
- everettpoetrynite (2014 and 2015)
- Poetry Laboratory 11/14/16
Other
- Great article about Portland Poetry Slam at the Rose City Comicon in 2014 at geekylibrary