Line tamer.
I never knew the extent of Picasso’s sculpture output–the focus is typically on his paintings and periods (his changes in style usually tied to a change in mistress/muse). The sense of play, though, of figuring out spatial questions, of turning the creative hand to a different type of “making” to give the brain a break/engage Read More …
The handsome Stephen Mills interviewed me for his new monthly interview series featuring emerging LGBT poets on his blog, Joe’s Jacket. Click on over to find out whether or not I write poems in the nude, how “anagram me” can be your new pick-up line, and which luscious-locked actor would play me in my bio-pic. Read More …
I’ve been thinking a bit about creative cycles lately. Memorial Day weekend tends to be a productive time every year for me. I don’t know if it has something to do with it being a three day weekend, the first since February, and so my mind is desperate and ready to write, or the proximity Read More …
I’ve noticed some poet friends Wordle-ing (is that a verb?) their poetry manuscripts. I couldn’t resist. After I finished my first manuscript some years ago I made a list of words I felt I overused in it and then forbid myself from using them in the next manuscript. If only I had had Worldle! Anyway, Read More …
I’ve provided the “Celebrity Poet” prompt for the month of October over at Read Write Poem. It’s called “The Poetics of the Mash-Up” and uses two of my unpublished poems “Skin Game” and “The Alchemists Dissolve and Coagulate” to illustrate the concept. Go check it out!
Head on over to Dustin Brookshire’s blog to check out my contribution to his series “Why Do I Write?”