Category Archives: Musings

Favorite Reads of 2012

Posted on January 1, 2013

Well, this is embarrassing. I made this post and thought I scheduled it to go up at the end of December, but it never posted. It’s now April. So here is my much-delayed list of favorite reads from 2012 (which … Continue reading →

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July Bits

Posted on July 26, 2012

Thunderstorms flooding the city. Air so heavy with humidity and pollution and rotting trash it’s hard to breathe. Showering multiple times a day to stay cool and get the film off your skin. Ah New York in the summertime. It’s … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday!

Posted on June 1, 2012

Happy birthday to my book Skin Shift, which is officially released today. You share a birthday with your daddy, and with Marilyn Monroe, amongst others. Last summer while in the midst of my Marilyn research, I discovered The Seven Year Itch premiered … Continue reading →

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May Bits

Posted on May 16, 2012

If you pre-ordered Skin Shift, Sibling Rivalry Press is shipping pre-orders early!  Each day another reader writes to say it arrived in the mail.  My little skin-shifter soldiers are marching!  It is also now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, … Continue reading →

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Post-AWP Chicago 2012 Post

Posted on March 10, 2012

This is a bit delayed considering it’s been a week since AWP Chicago 2012 (a necessary designation since this is like the third AWP I’ve been to in Chicago now).  I started with odd chest congestion a few days before … Continue reading →

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A History of Bicycles

Posted on January 19, 2012

And with that title I’m writing again.  Well, writing in the sense of finally compressing my raw material into “finished” poems.  I realized I had a lot of poem starts and poem fragments and even almost-complete but unresolved poems, so … Continue reading →

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Calligramme On the Cover of a Magazine

Posted on January 8, 2012

I wonder how many poems have made the cover of a magazine?  A calligramme I made of Marilyn Monroe’s face graces the cover of the latest Poets & Artists magazine (#31, January 2012). Open publication – Free publishing – More … Continue reading →

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Favorite Books Read in 2011

Posted on December 23, 2011

It’s that time of year again.  Of the 100 or so books I read this year, these were some of my faves (again, totally idiosyncratic and not limited to books published this year – I often discover books years after … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Pear

Posted on December 20, 2011

We’re back online. The era of the pear has ended. My annual “favorite books read this year” post will be up before the month is out. xo

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Is This Desire?

Posted on July 17, 2011

Charlie Jensen is hosting a mini-salon on his blog, Kinemapoetics this month.  The focus is on music albums we love, that we can “experience only through ‘sequential listening’–moving track by track, in order, from start to finish, loving every song.” … Continue reading →

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