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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 …
My poem “Xanadu Xanadu” from my Impossible Gotham book project appears in PoetsArtists #73, published in conjunction with the exhibit “Freak Out!”, an homage to disco, at Zhou B Art Center. If you’re in Chicago, you should swing by the opening April 15th, and if you can’t make that, the exhibit will be up until 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 had a lovely time visiting both my alma maters this past month. In an odd alignment of the stars, they both contacted me within a 24 hour window back in February to return to their campuses as a “distinguished alum” – aw. My first visit was to Muhlenberg where their new/reinstated chapter of Sigma Read More …
A quick note about some upcoming readings: Monday, April 8th: Indian Springs School, Birmingham, AL, 7pm. I’m part of the Indian Springs Visiting Writers Series which was highlighted recently in The Nation. Looking forward to seeing Douglas Ray and Jessica Smith, and discussing Skin Shift with their students! The public is welcome. Thursday, April 11th: Gay Read More …