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I have a new poem “Movable Mound Music” and sound art piece in the “From Motion to Stillness” exhibit opening February 15th, 7pm at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, IL. The poem was written in response to Mark Mastroianni’s “Natural Wisdom” exhibit at the Woodwary Gallery in NYC, in particular the painting Autumn Read More …
Well, this is embarrassing. I made this post and thought I scheduled it to go up at the end of December, but it never posted. It’s now April. So here is my much-delayed list of favorite reads from 2012 (which I’m back-dating to January 1!). As always, I present these in alphabetical order, and must note Read More …
I had a blast on Joe’s show last night, my second appearance on his internet radio show devoted to poetry. If you missed it, you can give a listen here. I started with a Christmas poem and then we turned to Skin Shift, picking up where we left off after my first appearance on his Read More …
I’m honored, humbled, over-the-moon, dancing on clouds, but really at a loss for words to adequately describe the news that Skin Shift and I have been included on the eighth annual list of debut poets from Poets & Writers magazine (Jan/Feb 2013 issue). Here are the twelve of us: Zubair Ahmed Lillian-Yvonne Bertram John Chávez Read More …
Christopher Hennessy and I had a fun exchange back in May about our first books, Love-In-Idleness and Skin Shift. The resulting conversation is now up at Boxcar Poetry Review. Check it out!
I’m quite humbled to hear that Didi at PoetsArtists magazine has not only nominated a pair of my poems for the Pushcart Prize, but I’m the only nominee she’s sending along this year. The two poems: M/Ghost M Tanka Answers to a Ten Question Interview This brings my lifetime Pushcart nomination tally up to eleven. Always Read More …
I have an essay in The First Time I Heard… The Smiths. Edited by novelist Scott Heim, this is part four in “an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band.” You can download the e-book here. * A new poem–“No Garlic”–in the Read More …
As promised, here are some more interviews: A self-interview up at The Nervous Breakdown. My literary influences interrogate me. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley interviews me in his “Five Questions…” interview series at Modern Confessional. On the anthology front, my poem “What Part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Don’t You Understand?” is in the new Love Rise Read More …
Thunderstorms flooding the city. Air so heavy with humidity and pollution and rotting trash it’s hard to breathe. Showering multiple times a day to stay cool and get the film off your skin. Ah New York in the summertime. It’s around this time every year I start dreaming of Autumn and crisper days and getting Read More …
Take a storyboard tour through seven images central to the poems in Skin Shift over at Jeffery Berg’s blog jdbrecords. * The new issue of PoetsArtists is dedicated to interviews, and I decided to take a different approach to my answers. You can check out my section here and the whole issue here. My partner, Michael, Read More …