Line tamer.
I have three poems in Issue Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2010 of Knockout Literary Magazine: “Letter to Mexico,” “What I Preach I Preach For the Sake of What We Excavate,” and “What Twenty Titles and Nine Drafts Later I Still Could Not Say.” All three are from my manuscript The Erotic Postulate. The two Read More …
I’m the featured poet in the Winter 2010 Issue of Blue Fifth Review, special theme: the body. The poems featured include “The Allentown Aubades” from The Erotic Postulate, “Circe’s Letterpress” from Skin Shift, and “After Jamaica, June” and “Spiral Compact Fluorescent” from Smite & Spoon. The issue includes new work by Marilyn Kallet, Ivy Alvarez, Read More …
Here is Salvador Dali’s 1937 oil painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, referenced in the five sections of the same title in Narcissus Resists: I wrote “Metamorphosis of Narcissuss” in Provincetown during the summer of 2002 when I was taking Mark Doty’s advanced poetry workshop and workshopped this poem in his class. I had originally included it Read More …
I’ve noticed some poet friends Wordle-ing (is that a verb?) their poetry manuscripts. I couldn’t resist. After I finished my first manuscript some years ago I made a list of words I felt I overused in it and then forbid myself from using them in the next manuscript. If only I had had Worldle! Anyway, Read More …
I finished Homer’s Iliad (Fagles translation) last night (it’s been my subway reading since the turn of the year) and had my hairs stand on end when I read these lines by the ghost of Patroclus speaking to Achilles: “So now let a single urn, the gold two-handled urn / your noble mother gave you, Read More …