Line tamer.
Nadine Robbins’ portrait of me in my She-Ra crown graces the cover of the September issue of Chronogram, a magazine out of the Hudson Valley. You can read the whole issue here. * I’ll be attending my 15-year college reunion and an alumni author’s reception on Saturday, September 19th. Muhlenberg College, Trexler Libary, 3-5pm. * Read More …
The summer 2015 issue (#162) of RFD Magazine featured an interview with Brent Calderwood, Stephen S. Mills and me as inspired by our Fall and Winter book tours. Franklin Abbott asked us to answer Harry Hay’s famous “three questions” – Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? You can read the whole Read More …
A long overdue post (something I started to write and meant to share back in September when The Erotic Postulate was released!) is up on jdbrecords. Much like this post from 2012 where I took my dear readers on a storyboard tour of Skin Shift (also on jdbrecords), this post walks you through four of the paintings behind Read More …
I have a new villanelle, “Beau Buck at Dusk” up in the new issue of Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations. Thanks to Paul Lisicky for selecting it and giving my psychic buck room to strut. * I’m giving away three signed copies of The Erotic Postulate for National Poetry Month over at GoodReads. Read More …
I have two poems from my Book of M project–“Dear Art Dear M” and “I Prefer Gentlemen in Bed”–in the new PoetsArtists (PA#62), which accompanies the “Immortality and Vulnerability” exhibit going up at Zhou B Art Center in Chicago this April. I’m also on the cover in a portrait by the painter Nadine Robbins sporting my Read More …
“The whole history of poetry is yours. Poets love when you pay them homage.” – Philip Levine, master class workshop, October 11, 2002, University of Michigan I’ve been trying to write this post ever since I heard about Philip Levine’s passing. He was one of the first “living” poets I met almost 20 years ago Read More …
Stephen, Brent and I woke to the news this morning that all three of our books from Sibling Rivalry Press made the 2015 Over the Rainbow List for Poetry, which is compiled by the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table. Nice news to receive while you’re on a book tour promoting the work! You can Read More …
A poem from my Impossible Gotham manuscript, “1 January 200X,” appears in the new iARTistas (Issue 13 – January 2015).
I’ll be coming to California at the end of January/early February to do some events in San Francisco and Los Angeles with my SRP-mates Brent Calderwood and Stephen S. Mills. Here’s our current tour schedule: January 31st, 3-5pm PST. “Three Under 40: Calderwood, Hittinger, Mills at the San Francisco Public Library.” Hormel Room. (100 Larkin Read More …