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I received a nice email today from Therese Broderick who maintains the blogEkphrasis: Poetry Inspired by Art; she offered some nice commentary on Pear Slip (I love attentive, thoughtful readers!). Here’s a preview: When you see the phrase “still life,” what image comes to your mind? Now that I’ve read the very engaging and inventive poems Read More …
Now that the winner has been announced I think it’s safe to reveal I was one of 29 finalists for the 2008 New Issues Poetry Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose. This is the first contest placement for my second full-length manuscript, Skin Shift, which has increased my confidence in this project. I’ve been pondering Read More …
A happy discovery. Someone included Pear Slip on an Amazon.com top nine list: “Favorites of a Self-Taught Literary Snob”. This is what they have to say: “This book is a great gift for someone who enjoys poetry, but doesn’t have the patience for something too long. The work is fresh and smart.” Thank you “greeningupsmart”, whoever Read More …
Here is a preview of “the heart strobed superimposed” recorded at the second screening of the film on Friday April 25th at the Brandeis/Hartt Collaborative Concert in the New Wing of the Hartford Art School.
Another surprise in the mail today: found out I was a semi-finalist for the 2008 Walt Whitman Award. This would be my second time as a semi-finalist, though the letter doesn’t specify for which manuscript I submitted, so it may have been the Erotic Postulate again or Skin Shift for the first time. It remains a mystery, Read More …
Just a quick note that a new project I’ve been working on, Specular Reflection, inspired by my travels to Jamaica last year, was named a Semi-finalist for the 2008 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. Not bad for its first time out.
Some pics from the 4/26 Moravian Book Shop Reading courtesy of my sister Jessica: Showing the audience that shape poem: Posing with my sisters:
Check out the new Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts (Volume 7, 2008) where I have the lead poem, “Mothers Eating Other Mothers’ Young” from my project Impossible Gotham.
Hello Pennsylvania friends. I wanted to let you know about an upcoming reading in my hometown, Bethlehem: Event: Moravian Book Shop Poetry Day Date: Saturday April 26, 2008 05:00PM Location: Moravian Book Shop, 428 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA, United States Description: Poetry Day at the Moravian Book Shop to celebrate National Poetry Month. I’m reading Read More …
Click HERE to read and hear me read “Grafted” in the March/April “Nature in the Cracks” issue of qarrtsiluni. I also love the meaning of qarrtsiluni; it comes from an Iñupiaq word that means “sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst.”