Book lovers, please stop by poet and all around nice guy Eduardo C. Corral’s blog LorcaLoca to see an interview about my chapbook Slow Depth. It’s strange to be on the other side of the interview table! CLICK HERE!
Andrew Demcak is an award-winning poet and novelist whose work has been widely published and anthologized both in print and on-line, and whose books have been featured at Verse Daily, The Lambda Literary Foundation, The Best American Poetry blog, and Oranges & Sardines. His fourth book of poetry, Night Chant, was published by Lethe Press, 2011. His other […]
I have been writing for several years now about my predicament of being both queer and rural. On one hand, I love living where I do. There is not a thirty mile commute to work in gridlock traffic. I rarely have to wait in line for more than ten minutes to buy anything. And there […]
I am starting to realize as I write edits on poems for my chapbook, that I will judged by readers on poems that I wrote a long while ago. This publishing business takes so long that our “current” work being seen by readers can be several years old. It is humbling for sure. It is […]
For the past three days, I have been watching men in my driveway dig deeper and deeper into the earth. It has something to do with an underground power line that has been defunct for a better part of a year. The problem in getting the line fixed is that it’s buried below more than four feet […]
There is a statistic going around that the “average” American has read one or fewer books in the past year. Although I find this terrifying, I know there are a lot of us reading fanatics picking up the slack. Near the first of January, instead of making a New Year’s resolution, my good friend posts […]
Clearly this is not my own work. It belongs to Peanuts Comics. I made a few ground rules for myself when I started this blog over two years ago. Contrary to other poetry blogs which I have seen (and greatly enjoyed) I decided not to post any of my own work on here. That decision […]
I have great respect for the writings of Virginia Woolf and her stake in the feminist movement, but the title of her book sprang to mind when I started to think about the writing life. There are innumerable books that discuss the writer’s life, the long and lonely journey on the page, and ultimately the […]
The longer I am in my MFA program, the more I notice a distinction between what my classmates and I are reading and what members of my extended family are reading. While I was finishing Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Zak Smith’s memoir We Did Porn, my relatives finished the third book in the Twilight […]
Please take a moment and stop by to read four of my persona poems about the constellations at Orion headless: Poetry, Art, Found Objects. I am thrilled to have four poems picked up by a single literary magazine or website. Stop by and you will encounter “Lyra” about Orpheus, a cranky “Orion,” “Dorado” in which […]