Friends, Fans and Fellow Writers, Please come by and see me at the AWP conference in Chicago. Hear me read from my chapbook Slow Depth and get your copy signed. On Thursday March 1, 2012 from 6:00pm-8:00pm: I will be reading at theRane Arroyo Memorial Reading located at 624 S. Michigan AvenueColumbia College North Library Reading […]
Dear Readers, In the weeks to come, I will be heading to AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) in Chicago. Between 7,000-10,000 writers, publishers, editors, educators, and readers will converge on the Windy City to attend readings, panels, and party with the literati and academia. It’s fun. It’s draining. It is also where my […]
On Sunday, I received and email from the folks at Winged City Chapbooks (an imprint of New Sins Press) that they had selected my manuscript “The Geography of Removal” as their annual contest winner. Thrilled could be used to describe my reaction. Perhaps squeeing might be a better aural approximation. I had submitted “Geography” at the […]
Three years ago, I dreamt about a gay poet who lived in NYC. In the dream, someone told me that I had to read his book of amazing poems. It doesn’t seem farfetched for one gay poet to be dreaming about another. I didn’t get the name of the book in the dream, thought I […]