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new poems under wraps
Yesterday, I had three poems accepted by a brand-new journal for their inaugural issue. I’ve been given the ok to mention the acceptance (and that it’s a paying venue, which is rather nice), but I’ve also been asked to hold off on linking to the website until it’s fully up and running. So pardon the… Continue reading
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Multiverse
“There are dozens of universes where the characters in my stories and poems are real and are writing about me. And that is why I exist in this one.” -JeFF Stumpo Continue reading
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XXXTentacion x John Taylor
Sunspot Lit just picked up another of the hip hop poems (to be published later this month), which in this instance goes out to both XXXTentacion, social media bad boy, and John Taylor, who fewer people these days know about. Taylor was a contemporary of Shakespeare’s, a waterman, and a poet. Watermen, who helped ferry… Continue reading
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frfr
“frfr” is live at Mudlark today as both the printed poem and a recording the editor asked me to make. He settled on making it a full Mudlark chap, as opposed to an entry in one of the series for shorter poems. Buckle up before heading into this one. Continue reading
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babbling about photography
A sestina I wrote in response to not just one image, but a series of photographs, by Walter Arnold just got accepted by The Ekphrastic Review and will appear there in August. Despite the fact that I’ve been doing ekphrastic pieces for a couple of decades at this point, I have to admit it’s my… Continue reading
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Mudlarking (for real)
“frfr,” a long poem* of mine, has been accepted by the venerable Mudlark. The poem is about science and (my) mental illness and how these things fail each other. I have rarely written anything so personal, but it’s definitely bigger than me. It will appear some time in June. *in 12pt Palatino, it extends one… Continue reading
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domesticated in Cleveland
I have a melancholy poem about imagined co-evolution and language up now at Gordon Square Review, alongside writers both local (to the journal) and national. Go check them out! Continue reading
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Slam Free or Die (once again my home turf)
Back in 2009-2010, when my wife and I first lived in New Hampshire, I was a regular at Slam Free or Die, the slam and open mic series based in Manchester. I even made the team they sent to the National Poetry Slam in 2010 (and was the lead writer on, among other things, the… Continue reading
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a prismatic swan song
I’m happy to say my poem “O lord thou pluckest burning,” written in response to the LA wildfires (and various other contemporary issues in the US), has been accepted for the Swan Song issue of PRISM International. I’m excited to see how the theme is interpreted by the other contributors when this comes out. Continue reading
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Visualize This
Maintenant, the journal put out by Three Rooms Press, just accepted a visual poem of mine titled “under control” for the forthcoming issue 19. The piece is constructed of lyrics from Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” and is part of the hip-hop manuscript (specifically dedicated to Zack de la Rocha as the… Continue reading
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