New Chapbook

is out with dancing girl press.  Kristy Bowen & dpg are incredibly awesome.

 

Carpenter bees for sale

Classes begin @Syracuse University on Mon. 8/29.

Just Googled blog title.  Found this:

 

      Figures.

 

 

 

Merrily, as buildings underwater

Recently moved to Syracuse, NY for grad school.  MFA in poetry.  Had a bitchin’ time finding a place to live, but starlings often make their own nests.  I mean, they always do.  So I found a nest a bit in the northeast side of town.  Got a gas station, groceries, bus stop, no picket fence.  Haven’t seen any deer in a while.  Been looking at black squirrels that aren’t in the southland.  Found some pennies & a quarter in one of the vents.  Had to reach through dirt to get them but saving them for laundry.  Have to pay to clean my clothes.  On the 3rd floor of the old house.  Where there’s a massive area unfinished & old bikes.  White porcelain doorknob.  It’s like a dollhouse only built for humans.  Very big & mansiony.  Now I’m sitting in Philadelphia.  Googled the following words: “vintage fish luring love” & found this:

 

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Spring Break is There

So that everybody was enjoying themselves,

[Visual Versification.]–My poem, my footage, my film–music by Arctica, “Somekindofnarrative.”

 

 

Spring Break is Here

New New New

chapbook rolling out from Dancing Girl Press in 2011. Strategies for the Bromidic.

Svelt, yo.

I’m in my final semester at Clemson and have been doing some reflecting on the future.  Trying to make decisions about MFA programs.  Getting ready to (hopefully) move out of S.C.

In the more immediate state of things, I’m doing a directed study in Old English this semester.  For a project, I’m thinking of taking the poems of Zachary Schomburg and Aase Berg (among others) and translating them into Anglo-Saxon.  I think Schomburg and Berg are two of the finest poets working today, and I’m hoping that by delving into their poems from a linguistic angle will assist my becoming better acquainted with their works, and perhaps, will open up new personal interpretations.

Virginia the Snail died.  I got two more:  Vivian and Vernon.  Here are two snails outside:

 

These aren’t my new snails.  (My snails live underwater.  How’s that for adorable?)

October–Chapbook/Reading

On October 30, 2010:  I’ll be reading from my newly published chapbook, After Milk & Song, at the Columbia Museum of Art with the SC Poetry Initiative. 

Other readers include John Pursley III, author of If You Have Ghosts and 4 chapbooks; Kathleen Nalley, who is currently enrolled in Converse’s MFA program; and other winners of the 2009 SC Poetry Initiative’s Chapbook Contest.