Line tamer.
The fall’s been so busy with book promotion and our reading tour that I forgot to plug a new anthology from SRP called The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South edited by my good friend Douglas Ray. When Douglas first told me about the project back in 2013 when I was visiting his Read More …
For the month of October, Ben Evans at Fogged Clarity has been featuring a different lyric dream each day. For Day 26 he features my “M Dreams” sequence–a stitching together of the various Marilyn Monroe dreams I’ve had over the years, featuring cameos by other early June Geminis such as Allen Ginsberg and Josephine Baker. Read More …
Assaracus #16 marks SRP publisher and Assaracus founder and editor Bryan Borland’s last issue as editor. He’s pulled together a stellar line-up of poets he’s published from over the years and reprints two poems from The Erotic Postulate: “Wrestlers Unfinished” and “Wrestlers Finished.” Check it out! Cover poem by Danez Smith:
I had the pleasure of interviewing the famous and fabulous poet Denise Duhamel for Issue 58 of PoetsArtists. Our conversation ranged from the pleasures and pitfalls of collaboration and her upcoming book (collected, uncollected and new collaborations with Maureen Seaton) from Sibling Rivalry Press, to questions of form and “ultra-talk,” to our love of pop culture Read More …
Today is the official book release day for The Erotic Postulate, my second full-length collection of poetry, and my second book with the fabulous Sibling Rivalry Press. It is also book release day for my pressmates Stephen S. Mills and Brent Calderwood, so happy book release day to all of us! Stephen and I will Read More …
My villanelle, “I Am Not a Myth,” is today’s Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets! Update: here is audio of me reading the poem: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167758041″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”50%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]
Still working on some readings in Boston, Philly and D.C. in October, but in the meantime, here is a summary of places I’ll be reading this fall: September September 5th, 7pm. “Across Genres, All Genres: A Night of Queer Writing” with Melissa Febos, Joseph O. Legaspi, and Shelly Oria at the BGSQD (83A Hester St, Read More …
I’m excited to be part of D. Gilson’s Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed project, which is best described in his editorial words as “154 people responding to each of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in 39,854 words; 23 pictures; 2 songs; and a one act play.” You can read his full introduction to the project here. I chose Read More …
My second full-length collection of poetry, The Erotic Postulate, is now available for pre-order. This is also my second title with the fabulous Sibling Rivalry Press, who brought you Skin Shift two years ago. There are three variant covers from which you can choose (or collect all three!), featuring paintings by the talented Provincetown-based artist Read More …
As we were preparing the galleys for The Erotic Postulate this past spring, I was revisiting poems I had written more than 10 years ago. Most of them still held up–a different style from how I’m writing these days, but I’m excited to have them soon out in the world to expand the conversation I’m having Read More …