March 2026
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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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Spying a hybrid
Miracle Monocle is a journal of (often-)experimental work at the University of Louisville, and it has accepted one of the hip hop poems. This one takes the form of a frantic police report. Forthcoming in their next issue. Continue reading
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Hitting the Target
Another poem from the hip hop manuscript has been picked up, this time a form I invented myself called a moving target, which will appear this summer in Rattle‘s Tribute to Invented Forms. Continue reading
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Sex, Drugs, & Senryu
Prune Juice, a journal that’s all about experimentation and play with traditional Japanese forms (e.g. haiku, senryu, etc) just accepted one of the hip hop poems for their upcoming issue, which has the theme “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” It has a title. And is about bounce music. Feel free to clutch your pearls… Continue reading
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Quest-pilled
A long poem from the hip hop manuscript – a mashing up of A Tribe Called Quest, Charles Mingus, and Malcolm X – is now slated to appear in The Pill issue iii, due out April 1. The magazine has kindly provided a great image for us to promote that with: Continue reading
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