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Head on over to Christal Ann Rice Cooper’s blog for installment #366 of Backstory of the Poem where I answer some questions about “I Am Not a Myth” from my 2017 book The Masque of Marilyn and the new anthology I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe.
I was honored to be invited on The Poet and The Poem, Grace Cavalieri’s long-running program from The Library of Congress. I opened with a poem from Skin Shift and then we turned to The Masque of Marilyn and other topics, closing with a poem from The Erotic Postulate. Enjoy!
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 …
I was tagged by my fabulous press-mate Wendy Chin-Tanner to partake in “The Next Big Thing” self-interview series. Wendy’s book Turn is forthcoming from Sibling Rivalry Press in March 2014. I tweaked the questions a bit as they had a prose writer bent to them, and seemed aimed at an unpublished manuscript (and though I Read More …
I had a blast on Joe’s show last night, my second appearance on his internet radio show devoted to poetry. If you missed it, you can give a listen here. I started with a Christmas poem and then we turned to Skin Shift, picking up where we left off after my first appearance on his Read More …
Christopher Hennessy and I had a fun exchange back in May about our first books, Love-In-Idleness and Skin Shift. The resulting conversation is now up at Boxcar Poetry Review. Check it out!
As promised, here are some more interviews: A self-interview up at The Nervous Breakdown. My literary influences interrogate me. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley interviews me in his “Five Questions…” interview series at Modern Confessional. On the anthology front, my poem “What Part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Don’t You Understand?” is in the new Love Rise 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 …
Happy May Day! Today marks the 1-month countdown to the book launch. I’ve been doing interviews, written and live, in recent weeks and am in party-planner mode for the book launch on June 1st. One of the interviews culminated in a feature on the NY Daily News books blog “Page Views” which ran this past Read More …
The handsome Stephen Mills interviewed me for his new monthly interview series featuring emerging LGBT poets on his blog, Joe’s Jacket. Click on over to find out whether or not I write poems in the nude, how “anagram me” can be your new pick-up line, and which luscious-locked actor would play me in my bio-pic. Read More …