Line tamer.
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 …
There are a number of fun, new anthologies coming out this Spring that I wanted to highlight: Divining Divas. Lethe Press. Ed. Michael Montlack. Includes a previously unpublished poem of mine, an homage to She-Ra: Princess of Power, called “For the Honor of Grayskull”. A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Read More …
It’s that time of year again. Of the 100 or so books I read this year, these were some of my faves (again, totally idiosyncratic and not limited to books published this year – I often discover books years after they first appeared in print): Mary Biddinger – Saint Monica Joe Brainard – The Nancy Read More …
We’re back online. The era of the pear has ended. My annual “favorite books read this year” post will be up before the month is out. xo
Hello, blog. Sorry I’ve been away for a while. I’m thinking in 2012 I might try to do a weekly post again like I used to do. In the meantime, here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to, what my work has been up to, what’s coming down the road: I continue to work Read More …