Line tamer.
Just found out The Erotic Postulate was a semi-finalist for the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize. Congrats to Oliver de la Paz for his winning manuscript Requiem for the Orchard! You can read some of Oliver’s work in the first issue of the new journal The Collagist.
I found this lovely commentary on my poem “Two Men On a Bed” over at Steve Fellner’s blog Pansy Poetics. It’s a thoughtful close-read, and it’s refreshing to have someone identify the source inspiration (A. R. Ammons, who I was reading heavily at the time I wrote this poem). Alice Fulton is a huge influence Read More …
Between send-off parties and birthday parties, trips to the park and the Bronx Zoo this weekend, I had the pleasure of reading and commenting on week three’s Project Verse entries as the guest judge. Now that all the judges’ comments are in you can see the results of the top two and bottom two, who Read More …
I’m the guest judge this week for Project Verse! In week three the remaining contestants have a simile vs. metaphor assignment to complete: two metaphors in a poem of 60 lines or less. Let’s see how they do! Their poems are due Friday morning by 10 and I’ll be reading them this weekend. Comments from Read More …
I found out on Friday that my second manuscript, Skin Shift, was a finalist in this year’s Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. It was a finalist last year for the New Issues Press Poetry Prize. If it keeps this track record up it will soon match my first manuscript The Erotic Postulate in number of Read More …
“This Is Not About Pears” from Pear Slip is featured on Verse Daily today!
Mark your calendars…I’m scheduled to be interviewed and read my work on The Joe Milford Poetry Show August 1st from 5-6:30pm. The show is broadcast on the web, so you can listen live from anywhere in the world, and if you miss it, you can find it in the archives. More details and reminders to Read More …
Back in February, Didi Menendez and Emma Trelles guest-blogged on The Best American Poetry site for a week. It was the same week as AWP and I fear some of their posts may have gotten lost in the tumult. As the festival of the chapbook gets underway here in NY in the coming days, I’d Read More …
The very generous Grady Harp has reviewed Platos de Sal. Here are some excerpts: Rarely has same sex love been so discreetly shared, or so erotically charged simply through the use of a few phrases or words. In the form of a beautifully constructed poem Matthew Hittinger has related a story other writers would need Read More …
Around the time Narcissus Resists was released poet Andrew Demcak wrote his five-part poem sequence Pink Narcissus in response to the 1971 James Bidgood film (which I also reference in Narcissus Resists). Andrew was kind enough to dedicate his poem to me in celebration of the release of Narcissus Resists (very sweet Andrew, thank you!). You can Read More …