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If you pre-ordered Skin Shift, Sibling Rivalry Press is shipping pre-orders early! Each day another reader writes to say it arrived in the mail. My little skin-shifter soldiers are marching! It is also now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and SPD, and always through SRP (support small presses!), so choose your seller if you have yet to Read More …
Allow me to interrupt your normal poetry news to nerd out for a moment. FAQNP has just published a collaborative essay I wrote with my buddy Carter (B.C. Edwards) on two of my childhood idols, the twins He-Man and She-Ra. Hatched over brunch and then a string of emails and drafts, it even comes with Read More …
Three poems from my Impossible Gotham book project are in the April 2012 (Volume 25, Issue 1) edition of MiPOesias: “Columbus Square Is Now a Triangle,” “Whoooo? Arrrre? Youuuu?” and “Trash Day.” There’s even audio of me reading them. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41500584″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41500871″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41501206″ iframe=”true” /]
”Green Gotham,” a poem from my Impossible Gotham project, is in the new issue (Issue 2) of Chelsea Station. The poem is part of the color series that appeared in No Tell Motel back in November 2010. There’s just one poem left from this series without a home, “Black & White Gotham” – my favorite Read More …
My homage to Joe Brainard — “If Nancy Had an Afro” — appears in the new issue of Bloom (#7, aka Vol 4, Issue 1, Spring 2012). This poem came out of a “Poetry (&) Comics” class I took at Poets House last year with Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier when we took a look at Read More …
I wonder how many poems have made the cover of a magazine? A calligramme I made of Marilyn Monroe’s face graces the cover of the latest Poets & Artists magazine (#31, January 2012). [issuu width=420 height=272 printButtonEnabled=false backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120108124217-7ca7be607c7b425ca608fb2b7d79bcc1 name=collaboration2012 username=didimenendez tag=art unit=px id=b33cbc0c-ed4d-3cb3-4663-cdbf1e504513 v=2] This is a collaboration issue around the theme “Icon” and 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 Includes a previously unpublished poem of mine, an homage to She-Ra: Princess of Power, called “For the Honor of Grayskull”.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 …
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’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 …