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Charlie Jensen is hosting a mini-salon on his blog, Kinemapoetics this month. The focus is on music albums we love, that we can “experience only through ‘sequential listening’–moving track by track, in order, from start to finish, loving every song.” My contribution is now up, a memoir-ish meditation on PJ Harvey’s 1998 album Is This 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 …
I have two poems up at The Offending Adam: “There Were No Sculptures” and “Stendhal Syndrome / Nude Study” both from my Smite & Spoon project. I like to use my blog to give some bonus information about my work when it makes its way out into the public world. The Socrates Sculpture Park mentioned Read More …
The launch issue (Issue 1) of the new StepAway Magazine (the name of the magazine’s inspired by Frank O’Hara’s wonderful poem “A Step Away from Them” and features poems that embrace the urban walking narrative) includes my poem “Füße: Umlauts, Eszetts, A Step” (also inspired by that same O’Hara poem–a “contemporary response”). Check it out!
The new journal Assaracus (taking its name from Ganymede’s brother, and continuing the legacy of the late John Stahle’s journal Ganymede) edited by Bryan Borland at Sibling Rivalry Press debuts! I’m holding my contributor copy and am excited to dive in. The fun thing about Assaracus (aside from its, ahem, “cheeky” name–check out the cover Read More …
A week of poems at No Tell Motel! Each day this week I had a poem from my color sequence (color wheel? prism poems?) up at No Tell Motel: “Red Gotham,” “Orange Gotham,” “Yellow Gotham,” “Blue Gotham,” and “Indigotham.” These poems are part of my Impossible Gotham manuscript. As for the other colors, “Violet Gotham” Read More …
I have two poems up at LambdaLiterary.org in their new poetry section: “I Could Not Say” and “Keystone Effect: KKK Rally in Carlisle” which you can read HERE. Both are old love poems (written ten years ago this month!) that I rehabilitated a couple years ago for my PA-themed Keystone Effect chapbook manuscript. They have Read More …
I have a persona poem, “Not Berdache Not Gynandromorph Not Even Two Spirit” in the new issue (Issue 4) of Clementine. One of the many dramatic monologues scattered throughout the first section of my Skin Shift manuscript. It’s a great line-up, including work by: Joe Eldridge, Jerome Murphy, Jeffery Conway, Kerri French, Rio Cortez, Sarah Read More …
Happy National Coming Out Day! I have a poem “Divine Violence” from my Smite & Spoon project in the Summer/Fall 2010 Issue of Mary: A Literary Quarterly. There will be a release party for the fall issue here in NYC at 7pm this Friday, October 15th at The Pearl Lounge, 155 8th Avenue (between 17th Read More …