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Summing up May
Kate and I spent some time gardening today, or, more specifically, preparing the garden. The New Hampshire weather has been strangely cool throughout May, so while we’re planting later than we’d planned to, we’re not late going by the actual conditions. The book tour for these are the waterfalls in my head has begun in… Continue reading
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venue change for Boston Poetry Slam tonight
If you’re planning to attend the Boston Poetry Slam tonight (whether to catch my feature there or not), it’s been shifted to The Foundry. Doors open at 8, show kicks off 8:30. Continue reading
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Purchase link
I’ve updated the Collections page with my interview on Rattlecast and, rather importantly, a purchase link. Continue reading
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Heading home and heading out
It’s the last full day of the April 2026 residency at Vermont Studio Center. We had open studios last night, which gave me a great chance to revisit some of the artists and writers who I’ve been talking with regularly while here (I stopped into probably ten studios over the course of the month, prior… Continue reading
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See You Soon
If you happen be near the University of New Hampshire today, swing on by Hamilton Smith Hall, Lecture Hall 210 at 7pm. these are the waterfalls in my head officially releases, and I’ll be reading with (this is so cool) Cornelius Eady, Diannely Antigua, and Adedayo Agarau. Continue reading
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Pinch me
The hip hop manuscript is not just poetry, but also prose and images, and an essay from it, “A Moon Both Black and Full,” was a finalist for the Page Prize in Nonfiction from Pinch, which is going to publish it in the coming months. Continue reading
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A small note
I’m going to have a haiku in ONE ART’s 2026 haiku anthology. Continue reading
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Poetry Month
Appropriately enough for National Poetry Month, April is going to be a month of me digging in and getting out. I’m doing a residency at the Vermont Studio Center from April 6 through May 1 (and need this coming weekend to get ready). My primary intended goal is to edit the hip hop manuscript with… Continue reading
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A little more conversation
An interview I conducted with poet-friend Mckendy Fils-Aimé, author of the forthcoming sipèstisyon, will be published this summer in Shō Poetry Journal, where some of his work in that collection had previously appeared. It was really fun to pick his brain about culture and poetry for 2000+ words. Continue reading
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Zooming Along
I’ve just signed on to be a featured reader in the Cobalt Poets series, an open mic conducted via Zoom every Tuesday, beginning at 7:30pm Pacific Time (that’s 10:30 Eastern, which is my time). One of the fun bonuses of featuring for them is that you get a poem produced as a digital broadside, so… Continue reading
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