Line tamer.
Mark your calendars. Here’s a quick summary of my appearances this spring: April 5: 6pm. The White Swallow Presents: Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight @ Cornelia St Cafe (29 Cornelia St, NY, NY). Reading with Steven Cordova, Alex Dimitrov, Jameson Fitzpatrick, David Groff, Joy Ladin, Timothy Liu, and Ocean Vuong. Hosted by Sylvia Plaid. $7 cover 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 …
This coming week two of my poems — “Orange Colored Sky” and “Samson in Reverse” — will be performed in the “Lions and Lambs” edition of the Emotive Fruition reading series, curated and directed by Thomas Dooley. The collaborative series pairs accomplished actors up with NYC’s emerging poets. I got to hear a preview at Read More …
I found a book about origami when cleaning my bookcases the other week. I’m not exactly sure where it came from, but there was a packet of origami paper tucked inside, so I decided to try my hand at it. This is my favorite creation, a fox and a book, based off a fox and Read More …
Last weekend I attended a master class at Poets House. It was focused on collaboration and led by Anne Carson and Robert Currie. I’ve been intrigued by the Carson/Currie collaborations in recent years that I’ve seen around NYC, and the timing of it seemed perfect given my interests right now. I’ve been wading into the Read More …
AWP D.C. was a bit of a whirlwind experience this year due to its unfortunate timing. I didn’t think I would be able to go due to commitments in NYC, but managed to get roughly two days of the scene covered. AWP organizers, I know you probably lock down dates based on cheapest rates, and Read More …
Who owns a story? Who has the right to tell it? And if they have the right, how should it be told? Kei Miller’s The Last Warner Woman explores these questions as the narrator “Mr. Writer Man” and the protagonist, Adamine Bustamante, the “Warner Woman,” duel and duet to tell her story, which, without giving Read More …
Hey Chicago! Composer Randall West’s settings of my poems “Skin Game” and “Not Berache Not Gynandromorph Not Even Two Spirit” will debut in a “New Song” concert next week as part of Chicago’s VOX3 vocal music collective. You have three chances to catch the concert: Tuesday, January 11 @6:00pm at the Loyola University Museum of 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 …