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Last night I was honored with an Alumni Achievement Award from Muhlenberg College, where I did my undergraduate work. When I received word back in the spring that I was receiving this award, my first thought was “Is this premature? I still have so much I want to do.” Perhaps that’s the fate of the Read More …
It’s been 15 years since I was last in Provincetown and at the FAWC. Back then it was for writing workshop vacations, summer respites from my first job before I got my MFA. I’ve kept my eye on their summer offerings over the years, but I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with writing workshops which Read More …
An unpublished poem from my archives on this sad day. Upon Reading Tiepolo’s Hound for Derek Walcott A pen trembled above a tea-stained page. A brush climbed couplets laid out in paint : Tahiti, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, a lineage hovered en plein air like ghosts or faint cloud wisps above the turning, turning sea. Read More …
My love for She-Ra is well known to most of you. The new She-Ra action figure, designed by twins Garrett and Darren Sanders for Mattel, is fab. u. lous. She’s pictured above checking out the dramatic monologue I wrote for her, “For the Honor of Grayskull,” in the Divining Divas Anthology. And here we are Read More …
I spent far too little time submitting work to journals in 2015, partly out of that weird post-book fatigue I seem to experience in the months after a collection comes out (other poets, do you experience this too?). But I’ve committed to reengaging in 2016 with journals, getting work back out in the world. What Read More …
My annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year; not a “best of” list at all, just works that stuck with me. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of genres and a mish-mash of books recently published and books I either finally got around to Read More …
I never knew the extent of Picasso’s sculpture output–the focus is typically on his paintings and periods (his changes in style usually tied to a change in mistress/muse). The sense of play, though, of figuring out spatial questions, of turning the creative hand to a different type of “making” to give the brain a break/engage Read More …
A long overdue post (something I started to write and meant to share back in September when The Erotic Postulate was released!) is up on jdbrecords. Much like this post from 2012 where I took my dear readers on a storyboard tour of Skin Shift (also on jdbrecords), this post walks you through four of the paintings behind Read More …
“The whole history of poetry is yours. Poets love when you pay them homage.” – Philip Levine, master class workshop, October 11, 2002, University of Michigan I’ve been trying to write this post ever since I heard about Philip Levine’s passing. He was one of the first “living” poets I met almost 20 years ago 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 …