Another Wilkinson Review (at Bookslut)

I've posted a review for Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Selenography (on Sidebrow Books) at Bookslut. It's a lovely book with fine Polaroids that complement and augment the poems themselves.

2009 Portland Reading on You Tube.

Here is a link to the first of three videos of my last reading in Portland, Oregon, on May 6, 2009 at the Blackbird Wine Shop. The reading was part of the Oregon Review First Wednesday reading series.

Reading at the Dire Literary Series

My reading at Dire Literary Series, held at the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge. MA went well. I sold books. People liked it. I had a few beers afterwards at a Korean place down the street. My friend Matthew Miller took this shot and posted it on his Facebook profile. Thank you to all who came out!

The Zoland Poetry Fellowship!

Well, it seems I won this wonderful fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, where I'll be spending the month of July doing nothing but writing. I'm incredibly happy about it. They even have a chef. Which means I don't have to cook, shop, or do dishes. For a month. I can just kind of walk around, look at birds, listen to the river. Heaven, Heaven, Heaven. Heavy.

Two new reviews in Rain Taxi

I've reviewed Graham Foust's A Mouth in California and Joshua Marie Wilkinson's The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth in the spring issue of Rain Taxi.

New poem at Painted Bride Quarterly

Actually an old poem, but "The Flaying of Marsyas" is online at Painted Bride Quarterly Issue #81. The poem, a sestina, is based on the painting by Titian seen here. With a bit of Seamus Heaney and van Gogh thrown in for complicated measure.

Cirque journal now out in print

My poem "Freezeout Creek" is now available in the 1st issue of Cirque, out of Alaska. Concerning a particularly creepy bit of history in the Hell's Canyon region of Oregon, this poem was written in Fishtrap's borrowed canyon on the Imnaha River. The online version of the magazine is also available here.