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Jon took me to my first NYC Ballet performance on this rainy cold June night and I enjoyed it immensely. The first piece was “Glass Pieces” set to the music of Philip Glass with choreography by Jerome Robbins (all the pieces tonight featured his choreography). I’m not really sure how to write about dance, but Read More …
A wonderful evening at the Center for Book Arts last night where I had the honor of reading alongside Patricia Smith. Sharon Dolin gave insightful and spot-on introductions and everyone commented on what a perfect pairing Patricia and I made. New friend Tom Healy summed up the sentiment quite well on my facebook wall today: Read More …
I’ve had a great weekend heading into my birthday: starting Thursday night, wandering around the Chelsea art galleries with my new friend Jon and finding these amazing paintings at Axelle Fine Arts. I’ll do a post on the artist soon, but we spent most of our time admiring the work and had a great conversation Read More …
I have a new poem, “It’s It’s” in OCHO #24: The Twitter Edition: Open publication – Free publishing – More twitter
I sometimes pop into MoMA during my lunch break and catch a quick exhibit. There’s a fascinating show on the 6th floor called “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schende” which runs until June 15th. Both draw inspiration from language, notably the written word but also finding visual equivalents for language that is spoken in their Read More …
Around the time Narcissus Resists was released poet Andrew Demcak wrote his five-part poem sequence Pink Narcissus in response to the 1971 James Bidgood film, which I also reference in the “Celluloid” section of Narcissus Resists. Andrew was kind enough to dedicate his poem to me in celebration of the release of Narcissus Resists (very sweet Andrew, thank Read More …
I’ll be reading with Patricia Smith on Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:30 at the Center for Book Arts as part of their Broadsides Reading Series as organized by Sharon Dolin. Limited edition broadsides of one of my poems will be available for purchase that evening. The Center for Book Arts is located at 28 West Read More …
I’ve been trying my hand at some reviewing the past couple weeks, in part to get over my fear of it. The fear still exists, and it’s far easier to write a review for a book I felt some connection with vs. one I didn’t, but I’m still finding my mind resists putting down in Read More …
I couldn’t attend most of the chapbook festival events last week, but I did manage to escape from my day job for a few hours on Friday to attend the workshop “Chapbook Now: Producing Chapbooks.” Rachel Levitsky, Sharon Dolin and Ryan Murphy all gave some notes on the chapbook, both as poets who have their Read More …
“In the Shadow City…” is included in the new issue (Issue 2, Volume 3) of Hobble Creek Review. It’s a poem from my Impossible Gotham project. There are some great poets in this issue: Collin Kelly, Joe Milfold, Montgomery Maxton, Nanette Rayman Rivera and many others. Kudos to Justin Evans for putting such a fine issue together.