Line tamer.
I’ve wanted to write a Christmas poem for a few years now, and have always been struck by two ornaments on my tree: a pickle and a pear. Inspiration struck during a Christmas Eve service last night and I had the first line and title. And then this morning I woke and wrote the rest. Read More …
As with last year’s list, this is a list of books I read this year that stuck with me in some way. There were many books published this year that I have yet to read (a boy only has so many hours in a day!) and they are sitting in a pile here. I’ll get Read More …
My boyfriend just bought a Kindle. And loves it. It got us talking about the type of print media he’s going to read on there, and, if I ever venture into E-reader territory, the kind I would read. He’s starting off by reading the free classics Amazon lets you download, and ephemeral media like newspapers. Read More …
Everything’s coming up poesy this week! A nice comment from Gregory Woods’ review of Ganymede Unfinished published on the CHROMA blog: The creative content gets off to a reassuringly solid start, with fine poems by Jee Leong Koh and Matthew Hittinger. I think I’ve mentioned before my respect for Woods and how influential his book 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 …
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 …
I took this photo today while visiting Governor’s Island. I saw the dragonfly sitting on a clothespin from quite a distance while we walked by one of the yellow officer’s houses. I managed to get pretty close. I’m usually just a point-and-click kind of guy, but am proud of how this turned out:
I’ve been thinking a bit about creative cycles lately. Memorial Day weekend tends to be a productive time every year for me. I don’t know if it has something to do with it being a three day weekend, the first since February, and so my mind is desperate and ready to write, or the proximity Read More …
Where to begin? The first time I met John? That was last June after he accepted some of my work for Ganymede. He kindly invited me to accompany him and Ryan Doyle May to the Noguchi museum and Socrates Sculpture Garden here in my neighborhood in Astoria/LIC. I remember the sculpture garden was like a Read More …
Here is Salvador Dali’s 1937 oil painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus, referenced in the five sections of the same title in Narcissus Resists: I wrote “Metamorphosis of Narcissuss” in Provincetown during the summer of 2002 when I was taking Mark Doty’s advanced poetry workshop and workshopped this poem in his class. I had originally included it Read More …