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The wonderful poet Tony Leuzzi (The Burning Door, Radiant Losses) has written an insightful review of The Erotic Postulate for Lambda Literary. Tony is clearly an ideal and well-read reader, picking up on the influences of people like Marianne Moore with the syllabic calculations, the reasons for the experimentation with punctuation, the philosophical bent to the Read More …
Not a “best books” list by far, just the annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of genres (poetry, prose, art, graphic novel), and a mish-mash of books recently published and books I either finally got around Read More …
Most of my writing friends concur that years in which we publish books are slower years for publishing in journals and magazines. Much of it has to do with a redirecting of energy into the galley proofing, party planning and reading and interview promoting that comes along with a new book. So with the release Read More …
Reb Livingston tackles one of my recent dreams in her new feature at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. She’s an insightful dreamsplainer! Check it out. Here’s the premise for dreamsplaining in Reb’s own words: Bored with traditional profile pieces & interviews? Me too! Here I will introduce writers and artists via their psyches by sharing one of their Read More …
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” /]