Is This Desire?

Charlie Jensen is hosting a mini-salon on his blog, Kinemapoetics this month.  The focus is on music albums we love, that we can “experience only through ‘sequential listening’–moving track by track, in order, from start to finish, loving every song.”  My contribution is now up, a memoir-ish meditation on PJ Harvey’s 1998 album Is This Read More …

Five Poems at Turntable & Blue Light

I have five poems up at Turntable & Blue Light: “39th Floor Aperture,” “Achilles,” “[G]olden Circe Sips Her Coffee,” “Zeppelin,” and “Purgatory”.  These are all from my Impossible Gotham manuscript. “39th Floor Aperture” is my homage to my day job at D. E. Shaw & Co., where I manage the Reception team (my receptionistas and Read More …

Two Poems in OCHO #31

I have two poems in OCHO #31: “At the Academy of Taxidermy Mirram Keeps a Secret” and “Restoration.”  Both are from my Skin Shift project.  The taxidermy poem is inspired by the aboriginal tale “The Woman Who Changed Into a Kangaroo” and the trunk poems is for my father. You can read the entire issue Read More …

Two Poems at The Offending Adam

I have two poems up at The Offending Adam: “There Were No Sculptures” and “Stendhal Syndrome / Nude Study” both from my Smite & Spoon project. I like to use my blog to give some bonus information about my work when it makes its way out into the public world.  The Socrates Sculpture Park mentioned Read More …

Upcoming Performances, Spring 2011

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 …

Poem in StepAway Magazine

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!

New Interview Up at Joe’s Jacket

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 …