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The Manhattan premiere of the Five Boroughs Songbook will be Thursday, January 12th at 7:30 PM at Baruch’s Engelman Recital Hall (55 Lexington Avenue & 25th St). There will be a composer chat beforehand at 6:30 and a reception after at 9:30. A special 2-disc CD recording of the Songbook will also be released that Read More …
There are a number of fun, new anthologies coming out this Spring that I wanted to highlight: Divining Divas. Lethe Press. Ed. Michael Montlack. Includes a previously unpublished poem of mine, an homage to She-Ra: Princess of Power, called “For the Honor of Grayskull”. A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Read More …
Hello, blog. Sorry I’ve been away for a while. I’m thinking in 2012 I might try to do a weekly post again like I used to do. In the meantime, here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to, what my work has been up to, what’s coming down the road: I continue to work Read More …
I have three poems–“Union, Squared,” “Cascade Escapade,” and “Smite & Spoon,”–in Issue #6 of Scythe. The poems are from my Smite & Spoon manuscript, from which I plan to read on an upcoming return visit to Joe’s radio show (more info on that soon!). Check out the poems here. Lots of great poets in this Read More …
“Dear Chanticleer,” my poem-in-the-shape-of-a-rooster, is up in the September Issue (Volume 5, Number 2) of Press 1. The poem’s part of the Smite & Spoon manuscript project. Check it out.
I’ve been sitting on this news all summer waiting on the outcome, but now that I know I didn’t win, I can reveal that my fourth manuscript, Smite & Spoon, was a Finalist for this year’s Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Happy to see another of my projects placing in a contest Read More …
The Five Boroughs Music Festival is celebrating its fifth year with a Five Boroughs Songbook which will premiere 20 new songs by 20 composers. The World Premiere will be at Galapagos Art Space on October 6th. There will be a Composer Chat before the performance at 6:30, and then the performance will be at 8. Read More …
I’m excited to announce Sibling Rivalry Press has picked up my manuscript Skin Shift as one of their four new titles for 2012. It will be released on my birthday, June 1 (which is a Friday!) so expect a combined birthday/book release party in NYC next year! While Skin Shift will be my first full-length Read More …
I have five poems up at Turntable & Blue Light: “39th Floor Aperture,” “Achilles,” “[G]olden Circe Sips Her Coffee,” “Zeppelin,” and “Purgatory”. These are all from my Impossible Gotham manuscript. “39th Floor Aperture” is my homage to my day job at D. E. Shaw & Co., where I manage the Reception team (my receptionistas and Read More …
I have two poems in OCHO #31: “At the Academy of Taxidermy Mirram Keeps a Secret” and “Restoration.” Both are from my Skin Shift project. The taxidermy poem is inspired by the aboriginal tale “The Woman Who Changed Into a Kangaroo” and the trunk poems is for my father. You can read the entire issue Read More …