July Bits

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 …

Poem in Bloom

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 …