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Here are some uncategorizable things that I have written:
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I have a weekly blog: "This is Ridiculous" -- it's free.
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I write random articles on Medium under mmdevoe.Medium.com: you can subscribe or just look at the titles. Or just know that I write random articles on Medium.
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Sci-Fi Dance Musical:
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With Bill Moulton, Associate Professor at Tisch School of Dance, co-wrote book of R/Evolution, the Musical. Three week run at the Robert Moss Theater in NYC. May 28-June 14, 2015. Click here to read a review (with photos).
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In Lithuanian:
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"Orchestral Suite, Four Poems," (translated by Marius Burokas) Vetrunges: JAV Lietuviu poezijos pavasaris, 2020
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Poetry:
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Seems my poem "Speechless" has been anthologized. Find it in a new 2024 Poetry Downtown anthology honoring Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" - you can get it here.
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I'm not actually sure what "In Case You Were Wondering" is. Could be flash. Could be narrative poetry. Could be a fever dream. You can read it in the inaugural issue of Birdhouse Magazine, available here online (or in print Birdhouse Magazine Issue #1, December 2022.)
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"After the Audition" published in an all-Villanelle issue of Limp Wrist. Read it in Issue #4, Sept 2021.
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"Haiku," a poem published in inaugural issue of Sinking City Magazine, Sept 2016. Winner of the Spring 2016 #AWPPoem Haiku Contest
Winner: #NYCPOETTWEET annual contest sponsored by Metro, and judged by NYC Mayor DeBlasio's wife, poet Chirlane McCray, April, 2014.
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“PA,” The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, (Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2001) ed. Nikki Moustaki, page 105.
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“Read Down,” The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry, (Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2001) ed. Nikki Moustaki, page 188.
“Jazz,” America, June 16-23, 1990.
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“After the Audition,” The Lyric, vol. 69, no. 4, Fall 1989. - this piece won first prize nationally and won $1000.
Trivia: It was MM's first publication.
Translations of Lithuanian Authors into English by MM De Voe:
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“Lady with Cowshit,” Renata Serelyte, The Third Shore: Contemporary East Central European Women’s Prose, (Northwestern University Press, 2006), ed. Agata Schwartz and Luise von Flotow.
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“Lady with Cowshit,” Renata Serelyte, May Day, Young Literature from the Ten New Member states of the European Union, (European Communities, 2006), Karl-Johan Lonnroth, Director-General for Translation.
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“Lady with Cowshit,” Renata Serelyte, PEN Anthology: Lithuania: In Her Own Words, an anthology of contemporary Lithuanian writing, (Tyto Alba Press, Vilnius, 1997), ed. Laima Sruoginis.
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“How the Olive Tree Grew,” Icchokas Meras, PEN Anthology: Lithuania: In Her Own Words, an anthology of contemporary Lithuanian writing, (Tyto Alba Press, Vilnius, 1997) ed. Laima Sruoginis.
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