Line tamer.
And with that title I’m writing again. Well, writing in the sense of finally compressing my raw material into “finished” poems. I realized I had a lot of poem starts and poem fragments and even almost-complete but unresolved poems, so I’m in the process of pulling apart and putting back together and splicing and dicing Read More …
I wonder how many poems have made the cover of a magazine? A calligramme I made of Marilyn Monroe’s face graces the cover of the latest Poets & Artists magazine (#31, January 2012). [issuu width=420 height=272 printButtonEnabled=false backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120108124217-7ca7be607c7b425ca608fb2b7d79bcc1 name=collaboration2012 username=didimenendez tag=art unit=px id=b33cbc0c-ed4d-3cb3-4663-cdbf1e504513 v=2] This is a collaboration issue around the theme “Icon” and Read More …
The Manhattan premiere of the Five Boroughs Songbook will be Thursday, January 12th at 7:30 PM at Baruch’s Engelman Recital Hall (55 Lexington Avenue & 25th St). There will be a composer chat beforehand at 6:30 and a reception after at 9:30. A special 2-disc CD recording of the Songbook will also be released that 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 Includes a previously unpublished poem of mine, an homage to She-Ra: Princess of Power, called “For the Honor of Grayskull”.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 …