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It’s my birthday…and I’ll surprise release a book on it if I want to. Especially if that book’s about Marilyn Monroe, whose birthday it also is today. My Marilyn poems have been kicking around for years, but I’ve finally bundled them in one sheaf-sequence to go have a public life of their own. With the Read More …
Reviewing is one of those generosities that I always thinks good literary citizens should do more of, and then I shrink from the task when I have to put my thoughts to page. But when it’s a poet whose aesthetic you click with, and whose work you’ve been following for years, you might find a Read More …
I have two new poems–“Cafe Imagination” and “Proof of Intent to Marry”–in the “Mirrors & Prisms: Writers of Marginalized Orientations & Gender Identities” issue (Spring/Summer 2016. Vol. 59, No. 2) of Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. You can see the full list of all the wonderful contributors over here.
My poem “Xanadu Xanadu” from my Impossible Gotham book project appears in PoetsArtists #73, published in conjunction with the exhibit “Freak Out!”, an homage to disco, at Zhou B Art Center. If you’re in Chicago, you should swing by the opening April 15th, and if you can’t make that, the exhibit will be up until Read More …
Thanks to Stephen S. Mills for featuring my poem “Monocacy” in Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine for December. The Monocacy Creek is in Bethlehem, where I grew up. It’s a native word for a twisty creek or river. * The new Rabbit Ears: TV Poems anthology is now available. My poem “Wednesdays at the Read More …
The summer 2015 issue (#162) of RFD Magazine featured an interview with Brent Calderwood, Stephen S. Mills and me as inspired by our Fall and Winter book tours. Franklin Abbott asked us to answer Harry Hay’s famous “three questions” – Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? You can read the whole Read More …
A long overdue post (something I started to write and meant to share back in September when The Erotic Postulate was released!) is up on jdbrecords. Much like this post from 2012 where I took my dear readers on a storyboard tour of Skin Shift (also on jdbrecords), this post walks you through four of the paintings behind Read More …
I have a new villanelle, “Beau Buck at Dusk” up in the new issue of Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations. Thanks to Paul Lisicky for selecting it and giving my psychic buck room to strut. * I’m giving away three signed copies of The Erotic Postulate for National Poetry Month over at GoodReads. Read More …
I have two poems from my Book of M project–“Dear Art Dear M” and “I Prefer Gentlemen in Bed”–in the new PoetsArtists (PA#62), which accompanies the “Immortality and Vulnerability” exhibit going up at Zhou B Art Center in Chicago this April. I’m also on the cover in a portrait by the painter Nadine Robbins sporting my Read More …
Stephen, Brent and I woke to the news this morning that all three of our books from Sibling Rivalry Press made the 2015 Over the Rainbow List for Poetry, which is compiled by the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table. Nice news to receive while you’re on a book tour promoting the work! You can Read More …