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Happy to announce that the new issue (#32) of the relaunched OCHO is now live. Didi Menendez, the publisher of MiPOesias, PoetsArtists, and iArtistas, contacted me back in February about relaunching OCHO as a journal focused on queer arts and literature. I thought it was a great idea, wrote a new mission statement and submission Read More …
There are a number of fun, new anthologies coming out this Spring that I wanted to highlight: Divining Divas. Lethe Press. Ed. Michael Montlack. Includes a previously unpublished poem of mine, an homage to She-Ra: Princess of Power, called “For the Honor of Grayskull”. A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Read More …
“Dear Chanticleer,” my poem-in-the-shape-of-a-rooster, is up in the September Issue (Volume 5, Number 2) of Press 1. The poem’s part of the Smite & Spoon manuscript project. Check it out.
I have five poems up at Turntable & Blue Light: “39th Floor Aperture,” “Achilles,” “[G]olden Circe Sips Her Coffee,” “Zeppelin,” and “Purgatory”. These are all from my Impossible Gotham manuscript. “39th Floor Aperture” is my homage to my day job at D. E. Shaw & Co., where I manage the Reception team (my receptionistas and Read More …
I have two poems in OCHO #31: “At the Academy of Taxidermy Mirram Keeps a Secret” and “Restoration.” Both are from my Skin Shift project. The taxidermy poem is inspired by the aboriginal tale “The Woman Who Changed Into a Kangaroo” and the trunk poems is for my father. You can read the entire issue Read More …
I have two poems up at The Offending Adam: “There Were No Sculptures” and “Stendhal Syndrome / Nude Study” both from my Smite & Spoon project. I like to use my blog to give some bonus information about my work when it makes its way out into the public world. The Socrates Sculpture Park mentioned Read More …
The launch issue (Issue 1) of the new StepAway Magazine (the name of the magazine’s inspired by Frank O’Hara’s wonderful poem “A Step Away from Them” and features poems that embrace the urban walking narrative) includes my poem “Füße: Umlauts, Eszetts, A Step” (also inspired by that same O’Hara poem–a “contemporary response”). Check it out!
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 …
I’ve wanted to write a Christmas poem for a few years now, and have always been struck by two ornaments on my tree: a pickle and a pear. Inspiration struck during a Christmas Eve service last night and I had the first line and title. And then this morning I woke and wrote the rest. Read More …
The new journal Assaracus (taking its name from Ganymede’s brother, and continuing the legacy of the late John Stahle’s journal Ganymede) edited by Bryan Borland at Sibling Rivalry Press debuts! I’m holding my contributor copy and am excited to dive in. The fun thing about Assaracus (aside from its, ahem, “cheeky” name–check out the cover Read More …