Spotlight taillight stoplight flashlight poets write a lot about what light can do cast light shed light headlight harsh light dee lite d’you drop your dive light dim light soft light twilight moonlight warning light engine light aspens shake some … Continue reading
In the Winter 2013 issue of M. Scott Douglass’ Main Street Rag, I have a poem titled “unsupposed to rain on Bolaño.” I’ve been reading Main Street Rag since before I left North Carolina; the perfect-bound literary journal publishes out … Continue reading
In September, three of my poems appeared in the CounterPunch Poets’ Basement. The first, “Slow Progress Ahead,” I wrote after a March 2012 visit to North Carolina, where the Old North State was engaged in a contentious ballot initiative to … Continue reading
Recently, I’ve published two prose poems in a pair of online outlets. You can find Hanging Rock at the deep ecology themed Bijou Poetry Review and Compass Points at the high-minded Airplane Reading. I’m honored to have them included in both projects, … Continue reading
I am excited to launch OccuPoetry today with new poetry by Carrie Osborne of Oakland, CA. A collaboration with my good friend Katy Ryan, OccuPoetry is a poetry project, publishing art in support of the Occupy Movement. Read and listen here – The Occupy … Continue reading
Lately, I have been writing more poetry than prose. Working at the National Humanities Center, I had the opportunity to meet and be influenced by some extraordinary poets, like Piotr Sommer, Mary Kinze, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. In the years … Continue reading
Over the 2008-2009 academic year, I got to work with Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Rachel is a feminist poet, literary critic, and editor of some great collections of modern poetry. A prolific writer and deeply interested in the avant garde movement … Continue reading
Poets are social critics by default. That is, since not very many of us take the same care to craft our daily language that poets do, poets often are (or see themselves as) outsiders. And as outsiders, many poets are … Continue reading