Two Poems in Gertrude #14
I have two poems, “Pocket Knife” and “Pillar del Caribe” from my Smite & Spoon manuscript in the new issue (Issue #14) of Gertrude. Check out the hot cover: Get your copy today!
Tidbits: Chapbook Festival, Short Poems, CBA Broadside
A tidbits post, ala Eduardo Corral: * If you are in NYC today and free between 4 and 5 this afternoon, and would like to hear me read a couple poems from Pear Slip, come to the annual Chapbook Festival at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave & 34th St). The marathon reading is Read More …
Poem at The Rumpus
In honor of National Poetry Month, The Rumpus is featuring new, previously unpublished poems by 30 different authors in 30 days. My poem “Xanthic the Day, Cyanic the Day” is the poem for today. Also, if you missed it, here’s a nice LGBT-focused AWP recap by David Groff at the Lambda Literary site. I’m stealing Read More …
Poem in Issue Three of Barn Owl Review
Almost forgot to announce this: “Jade Song Evades the Geologist” from my manuscript Skin Shift is in the new Barn Own Review. Issue #3 is all-poetry including work by: Brent Armendinger * Michele Battiste * Brian Brodeur * Adam Clay * Elizabeth Colen * Weston Cutter * Oliver de la Paz * Heather Derr-Smith * Read More …
Denver, Day Three
I think I’m in AWP-withdrawal, which I wasn’t expecting. Let’s hammer out the last day in Denver. Well, it started slow for just about everyone I know thanks to the drinking and altitude and lack of sleep. I think the altitude was blamed for a lot of behavior beyond the altitude sickness some people experienced…what Read More …
Denver, Day Two (Part 2)
It’s Saturday morning as I type this and I have a pounding headache, so bear with me as I try to narrate the rest of Friday. I met Joe and Chenelle Milford at the Starbucks at their hotel (after visiting two other Starbucks in the same block vicinity–all these hotels seem to have Starbucks attached Read More …
Denver, Day Two (part 1)
So far at the conference I’ve overhead lots of talk about online vs. print, which seems to be a hot topic this year. The conversation has many parts: on the shuttle ride over it was about the fight at some journals just to get an online submission manager (fear being that it would increase submissions Read More …
Denver, Day One (part 2)
Okay, I took some pics! This is the Denver Convention Center where the book fair, registration, and panels take place: And the entrance to Exhibit Hall A or whatever it’s called; the main hall. What’s nice is the entire book fair is in one hall this year, with carpeted aisles! Still a bit overwhelming, but Read More …
Denver, Day One (part 1)
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 …
Three poems in Issue 3 of Knockout
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 …