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I was honored to be invited on The Poet and The Poem, Grace Cavalieri’s long-running program from The Library of Congress. I opened with a poem from Skin Shift and then we turned to The Masque of Marilyn and other topics, closing with a poem from The Erotic Postulate. Enjoy!
I’ll be reading Wednesday, July 19th at The Center for Book Arts at the Text/Form Reading. Organized by Barbara Henry, who taught the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers I took back in 2009, I’ll be reading from The Masque of Marilyn and some of the new poem-print insect poems. If Read More …
A long overdue post (something I started to write and meant to share back in September when The Erotic Postulate was released!) is up on jdbrecords. Much like this post from 2012 where I took my dear readers on a storyboard tour of Skin Shift (also on jdbrecords), this post walks you through four of the paintings behind Read More …
I’ll be coming to California at the end of January/early February to do some events in San Francisco and Los Angeles with my SRP-mates Brent Calderwood and Stephen S. Mills. Here’s our current tour schedule: January 31st, 3-5pm PST. “Three Under 40: Calderwood, Hittinger, Mills at the San Francisco Public Library.” Hormel Room. (100 Larkin Read More …
I had a blast on Joe’s show last night, my second appearance on his internet radio show devoted to poetry. If you missed it, you can give a listen here. I started with a Christmas poem and then we turned to Skin Shift, picking up where we left off after my first appearance on his Read More …
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 …
Here’s a list of places I’ll be popping up this month, starting with a reading in PA this Saturday: Muhlenberg College English Department Alumni Conference. Saturday, March 17th, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. 2400 Chew Street, Seegers Union, Allentown PA. Will be reading as part of a literary panel segment at 1:30 pm with former Read More …
Mark your calendars. Here’s a quick summary of my appearances this spring: April 5: 6pm. The White Swallow Presents: Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight @ Cornelia St Cafe (29 Cornelia St, NY, NY). Reading with Steven Cordova, Alex Dimitrov, Jameson Fitzpatrick, David Groff, Joy Ladin, Timothy Liu, and Ocean Vuong. Hosted by Sylvia Plaid. $7 cover Read More …
This coming week two of my poems — “Orange Colored Sky” and “Samson in Reverse” — will be performed in the “Lions and Lambs” edition of the Emotive Fruition reading series, curated and directed by Thomas Dooley. The collaborative series pairs accomplished actors up with NYC’s emerging poets. I got to hear a preview at 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 …