New Poem and Print at The Good Men Project
I have a new poem, “Benelux Redux” and its accompanying lino print up at The Good Men Project.
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I have a new poem, “Benelux Redux” and its accompanying lino print up at The Good Men Project.
I have a new poem, “AC 749 Fly” and its accompanying lino print up in Issue 5.2 of Star 82 Review. I think this marks the publishing debut of one of my lino prints. And there are more to come! Keep an eye out for more poem+print combos in the coming months at The Good Read More …
I have a new poem, “Bomb,” from my Impossible Gotham project in Issue 14 of The American Poetry Journal.
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 …
A poem from my Smite & Spoon project, “71 Irving Place” appears in the inaugural issue of Impossible Archetype, A Journal of LGBTQ+ Poetry edited by Mark Ward.
An unpublished poem from my archives on this sad day. Upon Reading Tiepolo’s Hound for Derek Walcott A pen trembled above a tea-stained page. A brush climbed couplets laid out in paint : Tahiti, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, a lineage hovered en plein air like ghosts or faint cloud wisps above the turning, turning sea. Read More …
My love for She-Ra is well known to most of you. The new She-Ra action figure, designed by twins Garrett and Darren Sanders for Mattel, is fab. u. lous. She’s pictured above checking out the dramatic monologue I wrote for her, “For the Honor of Grayskull,” in the Divining Divas Anthology. And here we are 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.
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 …
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” /]