Line tamer.
Pleasant surprises yesterday as I braved some panels (panelists actually wrote papers!). There were quite a few queer-oriented panels this year, and I popped into “Who’s Yer Daddy: Gay Poets and the Inherited Present” as moderated by Jim Elledge. I missed Brian Teare’s presentation but arrived in the middle of David Groff’s which was all Read More …
I flew in to Chicago, this year’s host city for AWP, yesterday morning. I was prepared for the worst–last time I was in Chicago in February there were huge snowbanks and the lake looked like liquid, rolling ice. But not today. As we flew in over the water there was one moment when, as we Read More …
I’m bad about scheduling readings and need to do more, but I guess some audio links of me reading my work might be the next best thing. Click here to listen. You can subscribe to MiPOradio on iTunes. You can also preview below: Get your own – Open publication And head on over to the Read More …
I have two poems–“Bufeo Colorado” and “Two Black Swans”–in OCHO #22, a special edition edited by Miguel Murphy called “Dear America, Don’t Be My Valentine” which came about as a reaction and response to California’s passing of Prop 8 last fall. You can read it HERE (definitely check out Miguel’s preface before you dive in) Read More …
An article by Priya Bali from The Michigan Daily regarding the Hopwood Awards, complete with some quotes from yours truly. Enjoy!
Grady Harp, a top ten reviewer on Amazon and author of War Songs, was kind enough to review Pear Slip: Matthew Hittinger is an artist. He is able to paint with words intimate still lifes focused on one object – a pear – and make each of the eight poems in this small but treasurable book Read More …
Friends- I’m writing to encourage you to support the magazine Limp Wrist and their scholarship fund for LGBT high school juniors and seniors. They are having a raffle of some sizzling autographed items, including a copy of Christopher Hennessey’s Outside the Lines, Mary Biddinger’s Prairie Fever, Paul Lisicky’s Lawn Boy, a limited edition broadside of Read More …
I’m curious that Chatwin considered this book fiction; perhaps by today’s standards we’d brand it “creative nonfiction” the “creative” part being perhaps invented or doctored dialogue, some bending of facts to get at a more truthful narrative, etc. As a travel document, though, it maintains Chatwin’s compressed ability to sketch a character or paint a Read More …
Here is the text, courtesy of the Academy of American Poets, of Elizabeth Alexander’s “Praise Song for the Day,” the poem she read at Barack Obama’s Inauguration. Nice to see the brief tradition of the inaugural poem back; this is only the fourth time a poem has been read at an Inauguration. The first was Read More …
It’s been a while since I’ve thrown up a review of something I’ve read, and I rarely gush about a book of poetry, but I am in love with Sharon Dolin’s Burn and Dodge, Winner of the 2007 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. What initially struck me was the vast grasp and versatility of form, Read More …