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I’ve had three poems appear recently at Blue Fifth Review: “Rune Stories” appeared in their Winter Quarterly: City (February 2013/13.4) “There Are Characters I Omit;” appeared in their Poetry Special (December 2013/13.23) “The Library The Lion” appeared in their collaboration issue. The poem is in response to a drawing by Portrait of Dennis (In His Library) by Ira Joel Haber. The first Read More …
I have a new poem from my Book of M project, “Script Sculpt,” in Issue 10 of Weave.
My poem “Black & White Gotham” from the Impossible Gotham project is now live at Kin. The poem was inspired by Keith Haring’s mural in the former men’s bathroom at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Center on 13th St. here in NYC. Tino Sehgal’s interactive work “This Progress” (Guggenheim, January 29-March 10, 2010) and Read More …
A new Marilyn poem, “My Cinemascope Life (With Stereophonic Sound)” is in the recent “Heroes & Villains” issue of PoetsArtists magazine. It was a collaboration with painter Francien Krieg, a response to her painting of the elderly woman in the bathtub. Got me thinking: if Marilyn had lived to be 80, what would her thoughts be looking Read More …
A quick note about some upcoming readings: Monday, April 8th: Indian Springs School, Birmingham, AL, 7pm. I’m part of the Indian Springs Visiting Writers Series which was highlighted recently in The Nation. Looking forward to seeing Douglas Ray and Jessica Smith, and discussing Skin Shift with their students! The public is welcome. Thursday, April 11th: Gay Read More …
I have a new poem “Movable Mound Music” and sound art piece in the “From Motion to Stillness” exhibit opening February 15th, 7pm at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, IL. The poem was written in response to Mark Mastroianni’s “Natural Wisdom” exhibit at the Woodwary Gallery in NYC, in particular the painting Autumn Read More …
I have an essay in The First Time I Heard… The Smiths. Edited by novelist Scott Heim, this is part four in “an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band.” You can download the e-book here. * A new poem–“No Garlic”–in the Read More …
As promised, here are some more interviews: A self-interview up at The Nervous Breakdown. My literary influences interrogate me. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley interviews me in his “Five Questions…” interview series at Modern Confessional. On the anthology front, my poem “What Part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Don’t You Understand?” is in the new Love Rise Read More …
Thunderstorms flooding the city. Air so heavy with humidity and pollution and rotting trash it’s hard to breathe. Showering multiple times a day to stay cool and get the film off your skin. Ah New York in the summertime. It’s around this time every year I start dreaming of Autumn and crisper days and getting Read More …
Take a storyboard tour through seven images central to the poems in Skin Shift over at Jeffery Berg’s blog jdbrecords. * The new issue of PoetsArtists is dedicated to interviews, and I decided to take a different approach to my answers. You can check out my section here and the whole issue here. My partner, Michael, Read More …