Many thanks to Cordella Magazine for publishing an elegy I wrote for Joanne Kyger, titled “Mango Lemonade.” The poem is in Issue 13: Rebellion, which is also their first print issue. You can pick up a copy and/or watch a replay of the virtual launch party here. Thank you, Cordella!
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Poet of the Week at Brooklyn Poets
Many thanks to Brooklyn Poets for featuring me as Poet of the Week for May 4th – 10th. You’ll find a detailed interview, plus an audio recording of me reading “The Black Forest,” one of the poems in Sugar Factory.
A few places to listen & watch
Here are a few places to listen to my recent poems via audio and video:
— NYU Creative Writing Program Alumni Poetry Reading, hosted by Matthew Rohrer, Fall 2019
— Launching Sugar Factory and Sarah Riggs’s Among Friends portraits show, also featuring Eléna Rivera, Rachel Levitsky and Omar Berrada, at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Spring 2019
— Greetings Readings, at Unnameable Books, September 2016
upDate soon soon
I’m in the process of updating this website (very DIY, I’m not paying anyone to do it) — check back soon if you’d like to see the fresh stuff on your screen. Thanks for stopping by!
“The Myelin” in ELDERLY
I’ve got a poem in Elderly, a little magazine I love.
You can download Issue 21 here. Many thanks to editors Nicholas DeBoer and Jamie Townsend !
Thinking about Joanne today
And the way the light is. This morning I’ve been with Joanne Kyger, and I’ve been staying here, in the second half of a poem dated December 1, 1996, from AGAIN: Poems 1989-2000.
Try to be vast now. Remember this strand
of conscious thinking vibrating like a watery
jewel on the morning’s cobweb. All show, plunk
it falls, so temporal, this attempt to cliché the moment.
As all falls silent.
Essay in Teachers & Writers Magazine
Here I mention chlorine, pink ruffles, teaching, and amputation:
Thanks to Stefanie Lipsey and the folks at Cedarmere
Last Sunday, I read with Martha Rhodes, Martha Webster, and Marguerite Maria Rivas at Cedarmere, the former home of William Cullen Bryant. The Friends of Cedarmere have restored the home, transformed the grounds, and have brought poetry back to this beautiful place! It was an honor to be part of the first season of the reading series.