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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 …
My boyfriend just bought a Kindle. And loves it. It got us talking about the type of print media he’s going to read on there, and, if I ever venture into E-reader territory, the kind I would read. He’s starting off by reading the free classics Amazon lets you download, and ephemeral media like newspapers. 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 …
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 …
What a month! A pattern seems to be developing in recent years: that of the rough September. I’ve had a root canal this month, an ear infection, survived a round of layoffs at my day job, and found out I have to have minor surgery later this fall. Tack this on to my summer of Read More …
My essay/obit on John Stahle is up at LambdaLit.org. You can read it here. * Speaking of John, the memorial tribute honoring his life and the journal Ganymede will be next Saturday, September 18th, at 2:30pm in the Lerner Auditorium at The Center (208 West 13th St, NYC). More details available here. Hope you can Read More …
Bryan Borland has been hard at work editing Ganymede Unfinished, which pays tribute to the late John Stahle and his journal Ganymede. It is now finished and available for ordering. Here’s the list of contributors: Perry Brass, Jee Leong Koh, Matthew Hittinger, Alexander Grafy Gale, Sergio Ortiz, Ocean Vuong, Jeff Mann, Eric Norris, Steven Cordova, Read More …
Evan J. Peterson gives a thorough, engaging and thoughtful review of Narcissus Resists at The Rumpus. Here’s a preview: Despite what brooding know-it-alls in your workshop or writer’s circle tell you, Greek mythology is neither dead, nor tacky, nor useless to contemporary poetry. With Narcissus Resists , Matthew Hittinger provides readers with a crown of Read More …
Just a heads-up about my next reading, which is part of The White Swallow Reading Series organized by Angelo Nikolopoulos: Monday, August 9th, 6pm The Cornelia Street Cafe (Downstairs). 29 Cornelia St, New York, NY. The line-up that evening is Lonely Christopher, me, new friend Billy Merrill, and the wonderful Paul Lisicky, whom I studied Read More …
My poem “Moving Image #2 [Second City]” is in the second print issue of Corduroy Mtn. Contributors include: Jeff Alessandrelli, Ivy Alvarez, Eric Amling, Peter Berghoef, Jimmy Chen, Jennifer Denrow, Sasha Fletcher, Emily Kendal Frey, Garth Graeper, Matthew Hittinger, Judson Hamilton, Charles Lennox, John Madera, Nate Slawson, Ben Spivey, J.A. Tyler, John Dermot Woods, and Read More …