Nardo's Going to the (a) Dog(s)

 

I wrote a poem involving a dog, here at the Flying Dodo. Even cat people can enjoy it!

Like Lazarus, Come from the Dead: Read My First Published Poem, Again

Read Flyer Guy, first published in Perigee (RIP), among other poems from other Defuncted journals. They are on display again. Hooray! 

My Scheme: Fun with Punctuation

 

A SHORT POEM by YOURS TRULY. A sort of Finnegan's Wake structure condensed into a scam spam email. Or is it the other way around? Thanks to CAUSTIC FROLIC for publishing it.

Kafka, Asbestos, & Prose

 

Image by Frank Jackdaw

Good news, I won a small writing contest. This one was held to promote the work of Robin Hemley's new novel Oblivion, an "after autobiography" where a recently deceased writer gets to encounter Franz Kafka in the afterlife. Read my entry and enjoy.

Eat Your Mixed Greens

 

Have something in common with me by reading the newest issue of Common House and read my poem "Mixed Greens."

"It's Fine if Historians Find Me More Words than Body"

 

Good evening, for your perusal and consideration, see the latest issue of Breathe Bold, which has a poem of mine "Recovered Files" on page 13 (spooooky).

Class, Please Turn to Page 16

 And read a poem of mine in an international anthology of 2022 poems.

I'm on Page 11

 Of the first issue of Breathe Bold

Listening to Podcasts (kinda) Pays Off

The latest issue of Harpy Hybrid features a poem of mine A Critical Path to Forty. The genesis of the poem involved listening to the above YouTube show, which only lasted through the early part of quarantine. Maybe it will the longest lasting testament to its existence, these lines uncovered from a hard drive ten centuries in the future and leading cyborg lizard scholars to speculate on the nature of this dirtbag art show.

 

NATURE, BUT MAKE IT GLOSSY

 

Hey all, Happy Thanksgiving. Read a short poems I wrote about petals in Issue 5 of Dollar Store Mag.

Counting on Yinz

to ready three poems of minz in the inaugural issue of L=Y=R=A 

Come to Brooklyn this Friday, I'll read poems recently accepted to journals!

 

Paddling Along

 

A blast from our recently hotter past. Paddler has generously published a poem of mine: "Late August News" in their latest issue (number 6), hot off the press in Peterborough, Canada

A Return to Prose Posts

 As some of you may know I am now studying for an MFA at Long Island University. Is studying the right word? I guess technically I'm a candidate. But not THE Candidate. That remains Robert Redford. Yes, the academic bug finally bit me. Who knows how far it will burrow inside. Classes have been good so far, lots of readings and such as you can imagine. I'm learning about the history of the novel and this little thing called "show don't tell." Oh damn. Did I just violate it? In one of my classes, Crossing Genres, we are exploring different forms of writing. One of our first lessons focused on flash fiction. I haven't written much of it, but since that class I've been trying out the form. It used to be easier for me to write 50,000 words than something restricted to a 1,000. Or at least to be proud of the result. Now I can say I'm making progress on this front. Or, show you with a link to one of the first prose pieces I've published in a while. It's called The Magic Palm and it's in the Bright Flash Literary Review. The picture below (not the one on the website) is what inspired it. For all you prose lovers out there, rejoice.

The Lover's Eye finds the Real King

 

Thanks to Lover's Eye Press for publishing a poem of mine in their sex issue. I mean, sixth issue. The poem is titled: The Real King. Go for irrelevancy, the stay for the majesty.