Line tamer.
My essay/obit on John Stahle is up at LambdaLit.org. You can read it here. * Speaking of John, the memorial tribute honoring his life and the journal Ganymede will be next Saturday, September 18th, at 2:30pm in the Lerner Auditorium at The Center (208 West 13th St, NYC). More details available here. Hope you can Read More …
Just a heads-up about my next reading, which is part of The White Swallow Reading Series organized by Angelo Nikolopoulos: Monday, August 9th, 6pm The Cornelia Street Cafe (Downstairs). 29 Cornelia St, New York, NY. The line-up that evening is Lonely Christopher, me, new friend Billy Merrill, and the wonderful Paul Lisicky, whom I studied Read More …
I’ll be reading June 22nd with Michael Montlack and Stephen Motika at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center here in NYC as part of the Working Authors series. Reception begins at 6pm with reading at 6:30. Check out the event listing on The Center’s site, and the Facebook event. Hope to see you Read More …
I think I’m in AWP-withdrawal, which I wasn’t expecting. Let’s hammer out the last day in Denver. Well, it started slow for just about everyone I know thanks to the drinking and altitude and lack of sleep. I think the altitude was blamed for a lot of behavior beyond the altitude sickness some people experienced…what Read More …
It’s Saturday morning as I type this and I have a pounding headache, so bear with me as I try to narrate the rest of Friday. I met Joe and Chenelle Milford at the Starbucks at their hotel (after visiting two other Starbucks in the same block vicinity–all these hotels seem to have Starbucks attached Read More …
So far at the conference I’ve overhead lots of talk about online vs. print, which seems to be a hot topic this year. The conversation has many parts: on the shuttle ride over it was about the fight at some journals just to get an online submission manager (fear being that it would increase submissions Read More …
Okay, I took some pics! This is the Denver Convention Center where the book fair, registration, and panels take place: And the entrance to Exhibit Hall A or whatever it’s called; the main hall. What’s nice is the entire book fair is in one hall this year, with carpeted aisles! Still a bit overwhelming, but Read More …
I wasn’t sure I was going to blog AWP this year, but hell, I have free wireless in my room, so why not make use of it. Alice Quinn was on my flight this morning in the row in front of me. I noticed her when we were queuing up to board; she was chatting Read More …
I’m part of the Spire Press Reading at KGB Bar this Saturday, January 23rd from 7-9pm. Line-up includes fiction by Damian Dressick, nonfiction by Shelly Reed, and poetry by JoAnn Balingit, Christina Olson, Elizabeth Rees, and me. If you’re free and in/close to NYC, stop by. I’d love to see you!
I’ll be reading at the inSPIREd launch party Thursday, September 10th, 7:00pm at the Nightingale Lounge here in NYC. The party will celebrate the release of the new chapbook series from Spire, the inSPIREd Poetry Series, and will feature readings by some of their new authors including JoAnn Balingit, Alice Pettway and more TBA.