Line tamer.
I meant to publish this post sometime after Skin Shift was released back in 2012 and it just never happened, probably because I borrowed info from it for various interviews last year and for the Poets & Writers profile they did on me. But still–since I did one previously for my chapbooks, let me pause Read More …
The handsome Stephen Mills interviewed me for his new monthly interview series featuring emerging LGBT poets on his blog, Joe’s Jacket. Click on over to find out whether or not I write poems in the nude, how “anagram me” can be your new pick-up line, and which luscious-locked actor would play me in my bio-pic. Read More …
On a bit of a whim last night I decided to calculate how much money I’ve invested with the poetry book award contests since I started sending out my manuscripts in 2004. Bless the organizational skills I inherited from my mother, I’ve actually kept spreadsheets with all this raw data. At first I wasn’t sure Read More …
Just a note to say I was a Finalist again for the Keystone Chapbook Prize, this time for a chapbook called Keystone Effect which steals some poems from The Erotic Postulate and buddies them with some old but recently revised Pennsylvania-centric love poems. It’s fun to see all these poems together again under the Keystone Effect title. They originally Read More …
Dearest readers: I’ve had many inquiries about the status of Narcissus Resists, my chapbook sequence which won the 2007 Beauty/Truth Chapbook Contest. To be honest I had been hoping by this point to be announcing its release. In keeping with the spirit of the sequence, it was going to be an e-book, the PDF available via Read More …
More good news for Specular Reflection: it was one of 24 finalists for the 2008 NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Contest. You can see the announcement of the winner and the other finalists HERE.
Now that the winner has been announced I think it’s safe to reveal I was one of 29 finalists for the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose. This is the first contest placement for my second full-length manuscript, Skin Shift, which has increased my confidence in this project. I’ve been pondering Read More …
Another surprise in the mail today: found out I was a semi-finalist for the 2008 Walt Whitman Award. This would be my second time as a semi-finalist, though the letter doesn’t specify for which manuscript I submitted, so it may have been the Erotic Postulate again or Skin Shift for the first time. It remains a mystery, Read More …
Just a quick note that a new project I’ve been working on, Specular Reflection, inspired by my travels to Jamaica last year, was named a Semi-finalist for the 2008 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Not bad for its first time out.