I’m really looking forward to reading/talking at Potter-Belmar Labs next Colloquium. With any luck, I’ll be able to say something articulate, or at least entertaining, about my new manuscript, and how the poems function like painterly “studies” on themes of race, place, art-making, marriage, grief etc., you know, all the little stuff. Come on out. …
Midwinter Day
For what it’s worth, I highly recommend reading Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day in a hotel room in January, in downtown Los Angeles, alone. It’s a new year. “Every morning I think I’ve become the new weather Like embroidering something after, trying to remember The half-lies of dreams A day halfway Between fall and spring To …
Monster, Paris, Banjo, Teepee
Thanks to Tin House for taking five poems for the summer issue. It’s the title sequence of Some Studies for the Monster, a new poetry manuscript that I’m starting to let myself get excited about. Thanks also to Amanda Hesser for the nice shout about my Modern Love essay on the Paris Review Blog. Although …
