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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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Other Theater:
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"Letter to My Younger Self" - produced by Your Faithful Reader, off-Broadway, one night only and one week on Zoom. June 19, 2025.
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In Lithuanian:
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Two poems translated into Lithuanian in Egzodika III, Vilnius Lithuania 2025
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"Orchestral Suite, Four Poems," (translated by Marius Burokas) Vetrunges: JAV Lietuviu poezijos pavasaris, 2020
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Poetry: ​​
Gargoyle Magazine was my first major publication in 2026. My poem "Book of Monster Days" was discovered here on Medium by the legendary editor Richard Peabody and he emailed to request to publish it. I am still reeling.
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Four Poems in English in a Lithuanian Anthology of poetry, Dešimtas KÅ«lgrindos Akmuo, JAV Lietuviu poezijos pavasaris, 2025.
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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 (member of ALTA)
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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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