Line tamer.
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 …
A poem from my Impossible Gotham manuscript, “1 January 200X,” appears in the new iARTistas (Issue 13 – January 2015).
Most of my writing friends concur that years in which we publish books are slower years for publishing in journals and magazines. Much of it has to do with a redirecting of energy into the galley proofing, party planning and reading and interview promoting that comes along with a new book. So with the release Read More …
The fall’s been so busy with book promotion and our reading tour that I forgot to plug a new anthology from SRP called The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South edited by my good friend Douglas Ray. When Douglas first told me about the project back in 2013 when I was visiting his Read More …
For the month of October, Ben Evans at Fogged Clarity has been featuring a different lyric dream each day. For Day 26 he features my “M Dreams” sequence–a stitching together of the various Marilyn Monroe dreams I’ve had over the years, featuring cameos by other early June Geminis such as Allen Ginsberg and Josephine Baker. Read More …
Assaracus #16 marks SRP publisher and Assaracus founder and editor Bryan Borland’s last issue as editor. He’s pulled together a stellar line-up of poets he’s published from over the years and reprints two poems from The Erotic Postulate: “Wrestlers Unfinished” and “Wrestlers Finished.” Check it out! Cover poem by Danez Smith:
I had the pleasure of interviewing the famous and fabulous poet Denise Duhamel for Issue 58 of PoetsArtists. Our conversation ranged from the pleasures and pitfalls of collaboration and her upcoming book (collected, uncollected and new collaborations with Maureen Seaton) from Sibling Rivalry Press, to questions of form and “ultra-talk,” to our love of pop culture Read More …
Today is the official book release day for The Erotic Postulate, my second full-length collection of poetry, and my second book with the fabulous Sibling Rivalry Press. It is also book release day for my pressmates Stephen S. Mills and Brent Calderwood, so happy book release day to all of us! Stephen and I will Read More …
My villanelle, “I Am Not a Myth,” is today’s Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets! Update: here is audio of me reading the poem: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167758041″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”50%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]