poetry
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John Donne x Usher, Cardi B x Lillian Randolph
RipRap, a literary journal out of California State University – Long Beach, just accepted two more of the hip hop poems for publication in their next issue. One is a blues that goes out to both Cardi B and Lillian Randolph, who voiced the Mammy character in the original Tom & Jerry cartoons and had… Continue reading
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An insect bound in the Gulf Stream
Gulf Stream Magazine just accepted one of the dreamscapes for its next issue (which has the theme “Last Words”). They’ve had the piece for a while and indicated to me that they held off on responding because they knew that eventually they’d have an issue in which it belonged, so I suppose this is the… Continue reading
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My new record
Dadaist magazine Pfudalmda is looking for one-word poems around the theme of “lofve” for March. I submitted one at 8:03pm my time and got the acceptance at 8:16. The previous issue, “warfair,” really is worth a read, and I am genuinely excited to be part of this little mag. Continue reading
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butterflies and rubber bands
A poem I wrote for/about my mom and her relationship to her deceased parents and my relationship to her relating to them, “the agnostic’s three branches,” just got accepted by Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts. Continue reading
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Poets Respond (It’s me. I’m the poet.)
For the first time, a poem of mine has been chosen by Rattle for its Poets Respond feature. “Whalesong” just got emailed out to about 25,000 subscribers, it’s live on the site (along with a recording I did yesterday), and I’m going to join editor Tim Green tonight at 8PM ET to read the poem… Continue reading
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Nuestra anomalous señora
So, my book-length project for 2025 (I’m sure going to regret that combination of words due to SEO at some point) is a collection of poems dedicated to hip-hop artists. I’ve completed 25 of the 26 poems/sequences in it already (I was on a tear in January and February), and I just received my first… Continue reading
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Ghost in the Garlic
My poem “Turing Test,” which involves AI, Alan Turing, and a Ouija board, just got picked up by Allium. It’s one of my personal favorite pieces in the manuscript of which it’s a part, so this is particularly nice. Continue reading
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a printed canoe in the works
I feel bad putting this out there without more detail, but Half and One emailed me to say one of the two dreamscapes of mine they’d published online, “[Tonight you are paddling a canoe in the middle of the ocean…],” is going to appear in the print version of that journal at some point in… Continue reading
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Enlightenment means giving a HOOT
Quite a while back, I wrote a sequence of poems about people finding enlightenment (in the buddhist sense) in usual situations. That sequence is part of a manuscript I’m sending out now, but in the meantime, I’m happy to say one of the paths less traveled is forthcoming in HOOT, a magazine with one of… Continue reading
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