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It means "The Smallest American Reference"

Nanopedia has grown out of a writing prompt I gave myself a few years ago. For a long time, those pieces were all individual prose poems, but I began to see that they had similar concerns, themes, and images. “The moon watches you through her veil of thin clouds” and “He brings the night into the house like a long thread of smoke” are from a clustering of other pieces that draw from horror films, while the moon piece and “When I heard sixty-three birds…” to me are both sad love poems. It’s as much about sex and violence as it is about transformation, love and shopping, I guess—all of which, to me, are decidedly American pursuits, especially together.

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We’re in a Fight

I have a poem up over at Quarrel, the latest brainchild of the inimitable Dustin Brookshire.

For the blog, participating poets select five words from suggestions made by bloggers-at-large, compose poems using the words, and then publicly revise the poem toward completion.

Companion bloggers are the following favorite people of mine:

Christopher Hennessy
Dustin Brookshire
Genevieve Lyons
Kate Evans