Line tamer.
I wasn’t sure I was going to blog AWP this year, but hell, I have free wireless in my room, so why not make use of it. Alice Quinn was on my flight this morning in the row in front of me. I noticed her when we were queuing up to board; she was chatting Read More …
I have three poems in Issue Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2010 of Knockout Literary Magazine: “Letter to Mexico,” “What I Preach I Preach For the Sake of What We Excavate,” and “What Twenty Titles and Nine Drafts Later I Still Could Not Say.” All three are from my manuscript The Erotic Postulate. The two Read More …
I’m the featured poet in the Winter 2010 Issue of Blue Fifth Review, special theme: the body. The poems featured include “The Allentown Aubades” from The Erotic Postulate, “Circe’s Letterpress” from Skin Shift, and “After Jamaica, June” and “Spiral Compact Fluorescent” from Smite & Spoon. The issue includes new work by Marilyn Kallet, Ivy Alvarez, Read More …
Here is Salvador Dali’s 1937 oil painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, referenced in the five sections of the same title in Narcissus Resists: I wrote “Metamorphosis of Narcissuss” in Provincetown during the summer of 2002 when I was taking Mark Doty’s advanced poetry workshop and workshopped this poem in his class. I had originally included it Read More …
I’ve noticed some poet friends Wordle-ing (is that a verb?) their poetry manuscripts. I couldn’t resist. After I finished my first manuscript some years ago I made a list of words I felt I overused in it and then forbid myself from using them in the next manuscript. If only I had had Worldle! Anyway, Read More …
I finished Homer’s Iliad (Fagles translation) last night (it’s been my subway reading since the turn of the year) and had my hairs stand on end when I read these lines by the ghost of Patroclus speaking to Achilles: “So now let a single urn, the gold two-handled urn / your noble mother gave you, Read More …
Didi Menendez has painted my likeness a fourth time. Here’s a cool progress strip of how the painting progressed: You can view more of Didi’s work here.
Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer, has weighed in on OCHO #29: OCHO #29 continues to present fresh poetry by both well-established poets and those on the threshold of fame – due to the unflagging commitment by publisher Didi Menendez and crew. This particular issue, adorned on the cover with some fascinating graphic art Read More …
I have five poems in the new OCHO #29: “Arachnophobia,” “Bamboo Tattoo,” “Done Gone and Riled Kingston Up Again,” and “The Astronomer on Misnomers” which are all part of the Skin Shift manuscript; and “Nulla Dies Sine Linea” and “Homography” which are part of The Erotic Postulate. [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml showflipbtn=true pagenumber=55 documentid=100122153417-1ec8d577d86e4d0b8e33f93928d33bf8 docname=ocho29 username=DidiMenendez loadinginfotext=OCHO%20%2329 Read More …
I’m part of the Spire Press Reading at KGB Bar this Saturday, January 23rd from 7-9pm. Line-up includes fiction by Damian Dressick, nonfiction by Shelly Reed, and poetry by JoAnn Balingit, Christina Olson, Elizabeth Rees, and me. If you’re free and in/close to NYC, stop by. I’d love to see you!