Line tamer.
Day two, but first a story from day one: in the 19th century towns held typesetting races where swifts from local newspapers and print shops would compete to claim victory as the fastest and then move on to bigger and bigger towns to challenge other swifts. Some became pretty famous nationally. The last race was Read More …
I had my first class today in the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers at the Center for Book Arts. So much fun! Sarah Nicholls gave a nice introduction to the center and passed around some of the chapbooks from the award series and the broadsides from the reading series. I Read More …
One of the things I appreciate about having web presence as a poet is being able to connect with other artists and writers outside the U.S. Two recent stories of connecting with people you should check out: 1. The photographer Ellen O’Connell (originally from San Francisco but living in Zurich, Switzerland) contacted me via my Read More …
I found this lovely commentary on my poem “Two Men On a Bed” over at Steve Fellner’s blog Pansy Poetics. It’s a thoughtful close-read, and it’s refreshing to have someone identify the source inspiration (A. R. Ammons, who I was reading heavily at the time I wrote this poem). Alice Fulton is a huge influence Read More …
“Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow,” “Substitutions” and “Two Men on a Bed” are all up in Issue 3 of Ouroboros Review. Check it out HERE. Here’s a preview: Open publication “Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow” and “Substitutions” are from my Skin Shift manuscript and continue my exploration of metamorphosis and transformation in all its many Read More …
Between send-off parties and birthday parties, trips to the park and the Bronx Zoo this weekend, I had the pleasure of reading and commenting on week three’s Project Verse entries as the guest judge. Now that all the judges’ comments are in you can see the results of the top two and bottom two, who Read More …
I’m the guest judge this week for Project Verse! In week three the remaining contestants have a simile vs. metaphor assignment to complete: two metaphors in a poem of 60 lines or less. Let’s see how they do! Their poems are due Friday morning by 10 and I’ll be reading them this weekend. Comments from Read More …
I found out on Friday that my second manuscript, Skin Shift, was a finalist in this year’s Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. It was a finalist last year for the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. If it keeps this track record up it will soon match my first manuscript The Erotic Postulate in number of Read More …
I have two poems–“Dog Barking at Moon” and “Rowers“–in the Summer 2009 Issue (Issue #11) of The Smoking Poet. “Dog Barking at Moon” references Joan Miro’s 1926 oil on canvas painting of the same name and is an oldie rehabilitated in the past year and re-included in the newly structured third section of my manuscript Read More …
“This Is Not About Pears” from Pear Slip is featured on Verse Daily today!