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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 …
As with last year’s list, this is a list of books I read this year that stuck with me in some way. There were many books published this year that I have yet to read (a boy only has so many hours in a day!) and they are sitting in a pile here. I’ll get Read More …
A week of poems at No Tell Motel! Each day this week I had a poem from my color sequence (color wheel? prism poems?) up at No Tell Motel: “Red Gotham,” “Orange Gotham,” “Yellow Gotham,” “Blue Gotham,” and “Indigotham.” These poems are part of my Impossible Gotham manuscript. As for the other colors, “Violet Gotham” Read More …
My boyfriend just bought a Kindle. And loves it. It got us talking about the type of print media he’s going to read on there, and, if I ever venture into E-reader territory, the kind I would read. He’s starting off by reading the free classics Amazon lets you download, and ephemeral media like newspapers. Read More …
Everything’s coming up poesy this week! A nice comment from Gregory Woods’ review of Ganymede Unfinished published on the CHROMA blog: The creative content gets off to a reassuringly solid start, with fine poems by Jee Leong Koh and Matthew Hittinger. I think I’ve mentioned before my respect for Woods and how influential his book Read More …
I have two poems up at LambdaLiterary.org in their new poetry section: “I Could Not Say” and “Keystone Effect: KKK Rally in Carlisle” which you can read HERE. Both are old love poems (written ten years ago this month!) that I rehabilitated a couple years ago for my PA-themed Keystone Effect chapbook manuscript. They have Read More …
I have a persona poem, “Not Berdache Not Gynandromorph Not Even Two Spirit” in the new issue (Issue 4) of Clementine. One of the many dramatic monologues scattered throughout the first section of my Skin Shift manuscript. It’s a great line-up, including work by: Joe Eldridge, Jerome Murphy, Jeffery Conway, Kerri French, Rio Cortez, Sarah Read More …
Happy National Coming Out Day! I have a poem “Divine Violence” from my Smite & Spoon project in the Summer/Fall 2010 Issue of Mary: A Literary Quarterly. There will be a release party for the fall issue here in NYC at 7pm this Friday, October 15th at The Pearl Lounge, 155 8th Avenue (between 17th Read More …
The November 2010 Issue (Volume 3, Issue 10) of Poets & Artists (Oranges & Sardines) is now live! It’s a special collaboration issue where poets and artists teamed up “in pursuit of” many different things… Open publication I teamed up with painter Kristy Gordon and the title of our collaboration is “In Pursuit of a Read More …
Two nominations this week. Whee! Didi Menendez has nominated “In Pursuit of a More Perfect Armor” for a Pushcart Prize (my fifth nomination over the years!). This poem will be debuting shortly in the special November collaboration issue of Oranges & Sardines / Poets & Artists. Sam Rasnake at Blue Fifth Review has nominated “The Allentown Read More …