An Anemone Sidecar Sideshow

A poem of mine is in the current issue of Anemone Sidecar. It also features a poem from the GWIAF president Christine Stoddard herself.

Black Words on White Paper

Scroll through to page 16 of the first issue of Black Words on White Paper to see my poem, "Desdansa." Here's some information on the inspiration for the title.

News Poems Harvested by Scythe

Hello All, I hope you all are enjoying the weather. It feels like summer in DC, which obviously means Global Warming is true. I was worried February would prove it wrong, but things have gone back to being hot. Anyways, I have four poems up at Scythe. Click on the link to volume II of the magazine, then scroll down to see my name. It isn't that hard, and you will be rewarded with a picture of me dressed as a pirate, seriously. Those of you who had workshops with me might recognize the poem "College Days."

New Poetry, New Fiction, News

Well time marches on and brings with it all that is inevitable about the world: decay, death, taxes, and store shelves covered in saccharine celebrations of the crucified Easter Bunny.

However, we can celebrate all that is not inevitable and comes and goes in spikes of seeming randomness, yet harms us little and maybe does us a little good, such as getting our work published.

Here are several poems that recently hit the web at near-light speed:

Some thoughts on the nature of humor at Down in the Dirt Magazine

A Shakespearean reference at Polyphony

Shindler-like observations on the economy at Black-Listed Magazine

For those of you who prefer narrative, grammar, character, and prose, I have a treat for you, a short story of mine at Writing Raw. Kafka finally meeting eczema! Ah, Freshman year all over again.

GWIAF Art and Poetry Share

Hello everyone. We are having another GWIAF fundraiser event at Shirlington Library (4200 Campbell Avenue) in Arlington this week. It'll run from 6:30 p.m. 'til 8:30 p.m. Expect a standard art & poetry share. Bring spare change!

Also, if you are interested in signing up to perform for the Greater Washington Arts Festival or volunteer to help us put it on, go here for the form!

I WON! I WON! I WON!

Thanks to everyone who came out and made democracy count where it is most vital: helping to select which poems to put in a video production for Folded Word!

Acoustic and Electric

A poem of mine is up at Litsnack, where the motto is "Easy in. Easy out. Nobody gets hurt."

GET OUT AND VOTE!

Okay, I have three poems that are up for the 3Cheers Winter 2010 contest. If I win, they will turn my work into a video. So, go to the site, vote for the other poems, but be sure to scroll down and vote for mine!

Also, is there anyone interested in reading a poetry manuscript that I am planning to enter for the Hudson Prize? I will repay the favor with a manuscript swap. The only caveat is that it would have to be done soon.

A Leaf on a Stray Branch

Well, not much else to report on the home front but another venue to observe my poetry is up. The Stray Branch can be viewed here, or it can be purchased here. I am on page 58-59. That's right, I'm spread out.

Other than that, it is a beautiful day out, which I only enjoy briefly while going to get the mail. I'm tired from the weekend still, a mammoth of a trip to Columbia Heights and back, along with chemical excursions into the unknown. But I am recovering. Eggs and coffee always helps. I did some calculations and I realized it's been 7 months since my last hair cut. To be fair, the last time I had my hair cut I also had everything shaves, including a nascent beard.

Now, I am back to looking Biblical.

The Poet Speaks in Whispers and Screams

Read me

Hear me

To Ease Me In

First off, here is a small interview with me in Survival By Storytelling in case you want to delve deeper into my spiritual/gray matter.

I have a poem up in the latest issue of Physiognomy in Letters

The Puritan has been ever so kind to put up three of my poems in their magazine

And lastly, for your listening pleasure, hurdy-gurdy man

Storytime!

Well, for a change of pace, here is no verse, but prose instead. A short story of mine is in the latest edition of ESC! Magazine, in fact it leads the whole thing. It is titled, The Heathen Chronicles. Read on!

An Introduction to Poetry

A poem of mine is up at amphibi.us, based on a poetry class I took THREE FRIGGIN' years ago. Spring semester 2007, ah so far away it now seems. Though overall experience was educational for me reading poems about nothing more than bodily harm got old. The highlight of the class was at the end, watching Il Postino and drinking wine, then going to a bar afterwards.

Versify While You Work

A new poem is up at Work Literary Magazine. Read it and enjoy. I know you DC area folks have time on your hands. Out in Arlington we have 24 inches of snow.

More Things of Mine to Stare At

I have a poem hidden inside the folds of the Hidden City Quarterly Winter issue. Don't be afraid to look around, it won't bite your cursor. Also, I have a poem up at Black-Listed Magazine, with more to follow.