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Assaracus #16 marks SRP publisher and Assaracus founder and editor Bryan Borland’s last issue as editor. He’s pulled together a stellar line-up of poets he’s published from over the years and reprints two poems from The Erotic Postulate: “Wrestlers Unfinished” and “Wrestlers Finished.” Check it out! Cover poem by Danez Smith:
I had the pleasure of interviewing the famous and fabulous poet Denise Duhamel for Issue 58 of PoetsArtists. Our conversation ranged from the pleasures and pitfalls of collaboration and her upcoming book (collected, uncollected and new collaborations with Maureen Seaton) from Sibling Rivalry Press, to questions of form and “ultra-talk,” to our love of pop culture Read More …
Today is the official book release day for The Erotic Postulate, my second full-length collection of poetry, and my second book with the fabulous Sibling Rivalry Press. It is also book release day for my pressmates Stephen S. Mills and Brent Calderwood, so happy book release day to all of us! Stephen and I will Read More …
My villanelle, “I Am Not a Myth,” is today’s Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets! Update: here is audio of me reading the poem: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167758041″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”50%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]
I’m excited to be part of D. Gilson’s Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed project, which is best described in his editorial words as “154 people responding to each of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in 39,854 words; 23 pictures; 2 songs; and a one act play.” You can read his full introduction to the project here. I chose Read More …
My second full-length collection of poetry, The Erotic Postulate, is now available for pre-order. This is also my second title with the fabulous Sibling Rivalry Press, who brought you Skin Shift two years ago. There are three variant covers from which you can choose (or collect all three!), featuring paintings by the talented Provincetown-based artist Read More …
As we were preparing the galleys for The Erotic Postulate this past spring, I was revisiting poems I had written more than 10 years ago. Most of them still held up–a different style from how I’m writing these days, but I’m excited to have them soon out in the world to expand the conversation I’m having Read More …
A new poem, “Cross Bucket Candle Knife,” is up at The Offending Adam. It’s an ekphrastic response to Max Ernst’s Trois Poemes Visibles from his Una Semaine de Bonté: A Surrealist Novel in Collage (1933) and the poem sections align with his collage sections. It’s part of a triptych of poems. “Caliper Owl Thistle Fork” appeared in Crazyhorse late last Read More …
Happy to announce that the new issue (#32) of the relaunched OCHO is now live. Didi Menendez, the publisher of MiPOesias, PoetsArtists, and iArtistas, contacted me back in February about relaunching OCHO as a journal focused on queer arts and literature. I thought it was a great idea, wrote a new mission statement and submission Read More …
I forgot to post here that I had four poems appear in Crazyhorse (Number 84/Fall 2013): “Frost Pear,” “Caliper Owl Thistle Fork,” “The Sphinx * The Asterisk,” and “Villa Lyric.” The first three are from my current Book of M project, and the last from Smite & Spoon. Chip Livingston wrote an insightful review of the issue for NewPages, Read More …