Line tamer.
Another poem, “Yars’ Revenge“, up at The Good Men Project. This one’s for all those all school gaymers out there. Also appears in my new book The Masque of Marilyn as part of the “At the Museum of the Moving Image” sequence. Enjoy!
I have a new poem, “Benelux Redux” and its accompanying lino print up at The Good Men Project.
I have a new poem, “AC 749 Fly” and its accompanying lino print up in Issue 5.2 of Star 82 Review. I think this marks the publishing debut of one of my lino prints. And there are more to come! Keep an eye out for more poem+print combos in the coming months at The Good Read More …
I have a new poem, “Bomb,” from my Impossible Gotham project in Issue 14 of The American Poetry Journal.
It’s my birthday…and I’ll surprise release a book on it if I want to. Especially if that book’s about Marilyn Monroe, whose birthday it also is today. My Marilyn poems have been kicking around for years, but I’ve finally bundled them in one sheaf-sequence to go have a public life of their own. With the Read More …
Reviewing is one of those generosities that I always thinks good literary citizens should do more of, and then I shrink from the task when I have to put my thoughts to page. But when it’s a poet whose aesthetic you click with, and whose work you’ve been following for years, you might find a Read More …
I have two new poems–“Cafe Imagination” and “Proof of Intent to Marry”–in the “Mirrors & Prisms: Writers of Marginalized Orientations & Gender Identities” issue (Spring/Summer 2016. Vol. 59, No. 2) of Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. You can see the full list of all the wonderful contributors over here.
My poem “Xanadu Xanadu” from my Impossible Gotham book project appears in PoetsArtists #73, published in conjunction with the exhibit “Freak Out!”, an homage to disco, at Zhou B Art Center. If you’re in Chicago, you should swing by the opening April 15th, and if you can’t make that, the exhibit will be up until Read More …
Thanks to Stephen S. Mills for featuring my poem “Monocacy” in Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine for December. The Monocacy Creek is in Bethlehem, where I grew up. It’s a native word for a twisty creek or river. * The new Rabbit Ears: TV Poems anthology is now available. My poem “Wednesdays at the Read More …
The summer 2015 issue (#162) of RFD Magazine featured an interview with Brent Calderwood, Stephen S. Mills and me as inspired by our Fall and Winter book tours. Franklin Abbott asked us to answer Harry Hay’s famous “three questions” – Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? You can read the whole Read More …