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You can see my poem “[G]olden Circle Sips Her Coffee” (from my project Impossible Gotham) at the Queens Poets & Poetry Exhibit at Borough Hall. The fabulous Paolo Javier, our Queens Poet Laureate, curated the exhibit. Here are the poets and poems on display: Lorraine Schein (Sunnyside), “Dreambox” Norman Stock (Jackson Heights), “How to Become the Read More …
Three poems from my Impossible Gotham book project are in the April 2012 (Volume 25, Issue 1) edition of MiPOesias: “Columbus Square Is Now a Triangle,” “Whoooo? Arrrre? Youuuu?” and “Trash Day.” There’s even audio of me reading them. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41500584″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41500871″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41501206″ iframe=”true” /]
Here’s a list of places I’ll be popping up this month, starting with a reading in PA this Saturday: Muhlenberg College English Department Alumni Conference. Saturday, March 17th, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. 2400 Chew Street, Seegers Union, Allentown PA. Will be reading as part of a literary panel segment at 1:30 pm with former Read More …
”Green Gotham,” a poem from my Impossible Gotham project, is in the new issue (Issue 2) of Chelsea Station. The poem is part of the color series that appeared in No Tell Motel back in November 2010. There’s just one poem left from this series without a home, “Black & White Gotham” – my favorite Read More …
This is a bit delayed considering it’s been a week since AWP Chicago 2012 (a necessary designation since this is like the third AWP I’ve been to in Chicago now). I started with odd chest congestion a few days before the conference which, once in the Windy City, came on with a vengeance after dry Read More …
My homage to Joe Brainard — “If Nancy Had an Afro” — appears in the new issue of Bloom (#7, aka Vol 4, Issue 1, Spring 2012). This poem came out of a “Poetry (&) Comics” class I took at Poets House last year with Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier when we took a look at Read More …
Minutes ago I received the delivery notice from the mail room that FedEx had dropped off the first bound galley of Skin Shift. I was a streak of color across the floor and down the stairs. I’ve been bouncing around dying to show work friends (everyone’s in meetings right now, what gives!?) and took this Read More …
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 …