I feel like a whirlwind. No sooner had I left for Chicago and AWP then I was coming back again. I raced around this week unpacking, teaching my Intermediate Poetry Writing Class Richard Siken’s book Crush (or more honestly, I didn’t teach it, we talked about the poems in depth) and then started packing again for […]
Do you know about Assaracus yet? If not, let me tell you a little story. Once upon a time there was a gay men’s poetry magazine from New York City called Ganymede that printed some very good poetry by well known and unknown gay male poets. It’s editor and sustainer, John Stahl passed away in April of 2010, […]
I thought that I would take a few minutes and update where you can currently see my poems. I have two poems, “Lyra” and “Hades as Farmhand” in Barnstorm (which you can read for free online). My poem “Middle Burnt Fork, Good Friday” won the Academy of American Poets prize for the University of Idaho. […]