Line tamer.
I’ve been thinking a bit about creative cycles lately. Memorial Day weekend tends to be a productive time every year for me. I don’t know if it has something to do with it being a three day weekend, the first since February, and so my mind is desperate and ready to write, or the proximity Read More …
Where to begin? The first time I met John? That was last June after he accepted some of my work for Ganymede. He kindly invited me to accompany him and Ryan Doyle May to the Noguchi museum and Socrates Sculpture Garden here in my neighborhood in Astoria/LIC. I remember the sculpture garden was like a Read More …
I’ll be reading June 22nd with Michael Montlack and Stephen Motika at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center here in NYC as part of the Working Authors series. Reception begins at 6pm with reading at 6:30. Check out the event listing on The Center’s site, and the Facebook event. Hope to see you Read More …
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!
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 …
In honor of National Poetry Month, The Rumpus is featuring new, previously unpublished poems by 30 different authors in 30 days.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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …