Glitter Tongue launched!

It’s over here! After a marathon weekend of making proof edits and getting ready for the launch, it’s been so thrilling to have the world connect to it and be as excited about it as I was/am. The project has …

Queer love poems, or, how does a fish write a poem about water?

This week, I am writing queer love poems with a handful of other queer writers whom I love and admire in both internet and IRL ways. Margaret Rhee, Tamiko Beyer, Ching-In Chen, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Meg …

New post up at OP

Read it here: I Am The Least Difficult of Men.

I’ve gotten a lot of really meaningful feedback on it, including from a college friend Amy who shared a quote with me, which I will share here (emphasis mine):…

My poem “Dog Days” on Verse Daily

I’m really pleased to share that my poem “Dog Days” is today’s featured poem on Verse Daily. Check it out. Thanks, Verse Daily!…

queer eco-poetics

Huge congratulations to Tamiko, whose book – We Come Elemental – a collection of queer eco-poetics – will be published by Alice James Books! Tamiko’s bough breaks is dear to me, and I’m so excited to have more …

Last day of teaching

…for the semester. Here’s the Beginning Creative Writing Workshop, after our class reading, sated with pizza and end-of-semester loopiness.

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English 203, Fall 2011: Imagery in Poetry

Team ENG 203.1 (Fall 2011) has some things to tell, er, show you about imagery in poetry! In class, my students went scouring through the following poems for images, and then drew what they found, right down to the “rags …

What I’m reading right now

So many things! All the things. I guess grad school is maybe a lot of reading. Anyway, here’s a partial rundown:

Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons and Lifting Belly

Eileen Myles, The Importance of Being Iceland

Tracy K. Smith, Duende

Saeed …

I interviewed Justin Torres for Devil’s Lake

and you can read it right here: An Interview with Justin Torres.

I first met Justin at the 2010 Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBT Writers. He was on his way to San Francisco to begin his Stegner, and …

October updates- a Pushcart nomination and Devil’s Lake

On Wednesday, while waiting to board a bus to Minneapolis to read at a Collective Brightness launch event, I got word from Sibling Rivalry Press that my poem, “The First Erasure,” is being nominated for a Pushcart. The poem is …