Featured Poet in Winter 2010 Issue of Blue Fifth Review

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 …

The Genesis of The Metamorphosis of Narcissus

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 …

Wordle-ing My Manuscripts

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 …