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I have a new poem “Movable Mound Music” and sound art piece in the “From Motion to Stillness” exhibit opening February 15th, 7pm at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, IL. The poem was written in response to Mark Mastroianni’s “Natural Wisdom” exhibit at the Woodwary Gallery in NYC, in particular the painting Autumn Read More …
Thunderstorms flooding the city. Air so heavy with humidity and pollution and rotting trash it’s hard to breathe. Showering multiple times a day to stay cool and get the film off your skin. Ah New York in the summertime. It’s around this time every year I start dreaming of Autumn and crisper days and getting Read More …
Take a storyboard tour through seven images central to the poems in Skin Shift over at Jeffery Berg’s blog jdbrecords. * The new issue of PoetsArtists is dedicated to interviews, and I decided to take a different approach to my answers. You can check out my section here and the whole issue here. My partner, Michael, Read More …
If you pre-ordered Skin Shift, Sibling Rivalry Press is shipping pre-orders early! Each day another reader writes to say it arrived in the mail. My little skin-shifter soldiers are marching! It is also now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and SPD, and always through SRP (support small presses!), so choose your seller if you have yet to Read More …
Here’s a list of places I’ll be popping up this month, starting with a reading in PA this Saturday: Muhlenberg College English Department Alumni Conference. Saturday, March 17th, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. 2400 Chew Street, Seegers Union, Allentown PA. Will be reading as part of a literary panel segment at 1:30 pm with former Read More …
The Five Boroughs Music Festival is celebrating its fifth year with a Five Boroughs Songbook which will premiere 20 new songs by 20 composers. The World Premiere will be at Galapagos Art Space on October 6th. There will be a Composer Chat before the performance at 6:30, and then the performance will be at 8. Read More …
I’ll be reading my poem “8:46 AM, Five Years Later” at the Five Boroughs Music Festival Fundraiser this Saturday. It’s the next collaborative project in the works with composer John Glover for the Five Borough Songbook. Here are the details: Please join us on July 16th for a special evening of music featuring appearances by Read More …
Mark your calendars. Here’s a quick summary of my appearances this spring: April 5: 6pm. The White Swallow Presents: Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight @ Cornelia St Cafe (29 Cornelia St, NY, NY). Reading with Steven Cordova, Alex Dimitrov, Jameson Fitzpatrick, David Groff, Joy Ladin, Timothy Liu, and Ocean Vuong. Hosted by Sylvia Plaid. $7 cover Read More …
Hey Chicago! Composer Randall West’s settings of my poems “Skin Game” and “Not Berache Not Gynandromorph Not Even Two Spirit” will debut in a “New Song” concert next week as part of Chicago’s VOX3 vocal music collective. You have three chances to catch the concert: Tuesday, January 11 @6:00pm at the Loyola University Museum of Read More …
What a month! A pattern seems to be developing in recent years: that of the rough September. I’ve had a root canal this month, an ear infection, survived a round of layoffs at my day job, and found out I have to have minor surgery later this fall. Tack this on to my summer of Read More …