Thought * Frost * Voodoo Cover Reveal
Harbor Editions has revealed the cover to my new book, Thought * Frost * Voodoo. And I received the proof to review: Excited to share this little ekphrastic/reverse ekphrastic project with you soon!
Tag: Books
Some Favorite Books Read in 2009
I’m not going to do a top ten list, or limit this to books published in 2009 as I discovered a lot of wonderful work this year published since 2007. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some books here (it’s hard to remember what you were reading back in January and February) so this is by no Read More …
Some Notes On Charlie Jensen’s The First Risk
I’ve read some great new books in recent weeks and wanted to highlight some of them. This post is dedicated to Charlie Jenson’s first full-length collection, The First Risk: The first thing that struck me about the collection is how unified it is, both within each sequence and across each sequence. The thematic arcs have Read More …
Semi-finalist for the 2009 Akron Poetry Prize
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.
Finalist for the 2009 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
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 …
Formative Poetry Books
There was this viral post floating around Facebook to name your top 20 poetry books. I tweaked it; 20 felt too limiting, but 25 felt about right. I excluded more recent discoveries/obsessions/influences to sample some of the books that were important to me during my “formative” years (1998-2004). I limited myself to one book per poet, Read More …