Line tamer.
I’ll be reading Wednesday, July 19th at The Center for Book Arts at the Text/Form Reading. Organized by Barbara Henry, who taught the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers I took back in 2009, I’ll be reading from The Masque of Marilyn and some of the new poem-print insect poems. If Read More …
I have a new poem, “Benelux Redux” and its accompanying lino print up at The Good Men Project.
I have a new poem, “AC 749 Fly” and its accompanying lino print up in Issue 5.2 of Star 82 Review. I think this marks the publishing debut of one of my lino prints. And there are more to come! Keep an eye out for more poem+print combos in the coming months at The Good Read More …
I have a new poem, “Bomb,” from my Impossible Gotham project in Issue 14 of The American Poetry Journal.
It’s my birthday…and I’ll surprise release a book on it if I want to. Especially if that book’s about Marilyn Monroe, whose birthday it also is today. My Marilyn poems have been kicking around for years, but I’ve finally bundled them in one sheaf-sequence to go have a public life of their own. With the Read More …
A poem from my Smite & Spoon project, “71 Irving Place” appears in the inaugural issue of Impossible Archetype, A Journal of LGBTQ+ Poetry edited by Mark Ward.
An unpublished poem from my archives on this sad day. Upon Reading Tiepolo’s Hound for Derek Walcott A pen trembled above a tea-stained page. A brush climbed couplets laid out in paint : Tahiti, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, a lineage hovered en plein air like ghosts or faint cloud wisps above the turning, turning sea. Read More …
The world’s felt pretty dark since election day, as if Gotham (NYC’s mythic space) has gone into mourning. I’ve found myself up at odd hours, not sure what to do with my racing brain so decided to make use of 4am today by losing myself in something physical: why not print and send out Xmas Read More …
Reviewing is one of those generosities that I always thinks good literary citizens should do more of, and then I shrink from the task when I have to put my thoughts to page. But when it’s a poet whose aesthetic you click with, and whose work you’ve been following for years, you might find a Read More …
My love for She-Ra is well known to most of you. The new She-Ra action figure, designed by twins Garrett and Darren Sanders for Mattel, is fab. u. lous. She’s pictured above checking out the dramatic monologue I wrote for her, “For the Honor of Grayskull,” in the Divining Divas Anthology. And here we are Read More …