Category Archives: publications

Many thanks to the folks at Life-Long Press and guest editor Craig Santos Perez for including some of my newer poems in the latest installment of Back Room Live.

I’m thinking of Back Room Live as a virtual hangout, like the smoky part of the bar, way in the back, far from the door and the jukebox but close to the kitchen, where the poets and audience huddle up to hear the newness.

Speaking of the newness, the poems from Craig, Margaret Rhee and Debbie Yee are off the chain. Craig’s takes on charting the vastness, Margaret’s recollection of childhood want, hunger and innocent privilege, and Debbie’s command of the verb. Man, what awesome poet company this is.

Check out the poems and leave a comment over at backroomlive.wordpress.com.

Many thanks to Michael Swellander for including me in the second podcast episode of Pinecones. I’m reading poems from Palimpsest and from my next (still in progress) chapbook Heaven Below.

The first episode was kick ass and the poets in this go around are tremendous. Don’t believe me? Go take a listen for yoself.

The second episode of Pinecones | A Podcast of Young Poets is complete, uploaded, and ready to swim down your ear canals via www.pineconespoetry.net.

Featured in this new hour of poetry are voices from across the United States, including: Bronx-bred poet Oscar Bermeo (Oakland, CA), Kundiman fellow and Houston PhD student Janine Joseph, Mathematics PhD candidate Andrew Cooper (Ann Arbor, MI), and long-time figure in the Texas literary scene Bryce Milligan (San Antonio, TX). Within the hour these poets share their poems, songs, and conversation on the topic of craft.

Pinecones is a show intended to showcase the work of young poets alongside that of older, more established poets. The show provides generous time for readings and conversation with all poets included as a way to 1) increase exposure for all featured artists and 2) increase contact and involvement between the two groups of artists.

Enjoy!

Many thanks to Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia and Tony Robles for posting my poem, “The Trouble with Poverty”, up at Poor Magazine, as part of the 2009 Poetry Battle Poems.

If the poem looks a bit familiar, it’s because I liberally borrowed the title and the form from this poem.

The Winter 2009 issue of The November 3rd Club, featuring poetry, nonfiction, fiction, art and conversation by:

SAMIYA BASHIR, OSCAR BERMEO, PHAM BINH, ROBERT BOHM, J. BRADLEY, MICHAEL H. BROWNSTEIN, BRIAN DAUTH, B.L. GIFFORD, ARACELIS GIRMAY, EBONY NOELLE GOLDEN, CORRIE GREATHOUSE, ERIKA JAHNEKE, MIFANWY KAISER, ALAN KING, GEOFFREY A. LANDIS, HEATHER J. MACPHERSON, SYLVIA JULIE MARTINEZ, RAY MCNIECE, PHILIP METRES, RICHARD MODIANO, JOSÉ OLIVAREZ, MARC OLMSTED, IVY PAGE, JOHN PANZA, DEB POWERS, TERRY PROVOST, JERRY QUICKLEY, ANDREW RIHN, JOHN RODRIGUEZ, METTA SÁMA, SKIP SHEA, MARC SOLOMON, JAN STECKEL, LENORE WEISS, PHIL WEST, TONY WILLIAMS and ANDRENA ZAWINSKI.