Category Archives: Publications

Upcoming Readings, a Poem, and a Review

A quick note about some upcoming readings: Monday, April 8th: Indian Springs School, Birmingham, AL, 7pm. I’m part of the Indian Springs Visiting Writers Series which was highlighted recently in The Nation. Looking forward to seeing Douglas Ray and Jessica Smith, … Continue reading

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From Motion to Stillness / Movable Mound Music

I have a new poem “Movable Mound Music” and sound art piece in the “From Motion to Stillness” exhibit opening February 15th, 7pm at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, IL.  The poem was written in response to Mark … Continue reading

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August Bits

I have an essay in The First Time I Heard… The Smiths. Edited by novelist Scott Heim, this is part four in “an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic … Continue reading

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New Interviews and Anthologies

As promised, here are some more interviews: A self-interview up at The Nervous Breakdown. My literary influences interrogate me. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley interviews me in his “Five Questions…” interview series at Modern Confessional. On the anthology front, my poem “What … Continue reading

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July Bits

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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June Bits

Take a storyboard tour through seven images central to the poems in Skin Shift over at Jeffery Berg’s blog jdbrecords. * The new issue of PoetsArtists is dedicated to interviews, and I decided to take a different approach to my … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday!

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

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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Fabulous Secret Powers: Deconstructing He-Man and She-Ra

Allow me to interrupt your normal poetry news to nerd out for a moment. FAQNP has just published a collaborative essay I wrote with my buddy Carter (B.C. Edwards) on two of my childhood idols, the twins He-Man and She-Ra. … Continue reading

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Three Poems in MiPOesias (April 2012)

Three poems from my Impossible Gotham book project are in the April 2012 (Volume 25, Issue 1) edition of MiPOesias: “Columbus Square Is Now a Triangle,” “Whoooo? Arrrre? Youuuu?” and “Trash Day.”  There’s even audio of me reading them.  

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