Poems from forthcoming projects

Gulf Coast blog: “Of Fennel & Kintsugi

Cincinnati Review: “Of Mneme” and on miCRo, “Invocation

Granta: “Of Arcadia,” “Of Leather

Kenyon Review: Online: “Of Sparrows,” “A Heron’s Age”

Kenyon Review: “Of Exile” on Soundcloud (though the print version isn’t online)

Hunger Mountain: “Of Inheritance,” “Of Names to Disguise the Dead” (reprinted on Poetry Daily, here)

Witness: “Of Kampong & Creekbank” (.pdf)

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal: Two poems from “Of the Tea-Horse Road”

Little Wild Things: “Of the Bell’s Tongue

Poems from The Other World

Poetry: “[In the other world we use other words, painting]” and “ • [Whole towns like • horses turnt loose in the bardo of • …]

The Baffler: “ • [I, in – in the long ago time before time began to be…]” and “ • [In the other world,
I’m told, I was born / meant /…]

Anomaly – Queering in Plain Sight folio: “ • [We dressed our « unseemly » selves in meadow…],” “Of Glamour,” and “Of Mereism,” and “ • [In the old days and unemployed, I’d idle in the alley…]”

The Adroit Journal: “ • [In the good old days I lived « not » in a house…]” and “ • [To know a thing
is to desire it, as Esau’s hide-…]”

Ecotone: “Here let me stand. Let me too look at the fog a little…

Lambda Literary Spotlight: “Crossing the Bridge

Poems from In the Volcano's Mouth

Missouri Review: "Would You Believe," “Ophidia” (along with a micro-essay as introduction)

Ecotone: “A Spectacular Reformation of Their Old Ways” (or via Project MUSE)

Colorado Review: “Killing

The Quotidian Bee: “How Loss Inhabits A Body” (reprinted from Ninth Letter)

Nashville Review: “Early In The Day Of The Solar Eclipse

The Paris-American: “Shortness of Breath,” “The Old Order

Poetry: “I Passed Three Girls Killing A Goat

The Baffler: “After I Die

 

Poems from All night in the new country

Nashville Review: “Before The World Went To Hell

NEA Writer's Corner: “When I Was A Child” (reprinted by the Pittsburgh Poetry Houses project)

Verse Daily: “Elegy

Poetry: “Long ago I heard footsteps

Killing the Buddha: “The Arrival,” “Belief

 

POEMS FROM Pact-Blood, Fever grass

DIAGRAM: “Seasons Changing

No Tell Motel:  “My Own History of Plagues,” “Birthing,” “Ornithomancy,” “Burying” (“My Own History of Plagues” and The Hair of the Dead Still Grows in the Grave” both reprinted at the Doubleback Review)

42 opus: “Bibliomancy

Killing the Buddha: “Avernus

Poetry:  “Brazilian Telephone” (reprint; originally published in the Indiana Review)

  

Prose

Tablet Magazine: “One Little Goat” (also titled – or at least subtitled – “The Life of An Animal is Contained In Its Blood,” if you ask me; nonfiction)

Fairy Tale Review: “Of Humankind” (fiction)

Ephemera

I read from Species of Spaces by Georges Perec while my hair did Medusan things in this amazing hand-drawn animation by Lisa Iglesias at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in 2013.

I read with Donika Kelly, inimitable badass and student of mythical beasts, at Malvern Books in Austin, Texas, in 2017 and it's on YouTube. Watch me or Donika, whose book Bestiary you ought to know and own. 

I wrote about travel and desire lines for Sarah Blake’s NPM Daily in 2013; I had a little bit to say at the NEA Writer’s Corner that year, too.

The Poet's Bloc at the Oakland General Strike port shutdown, November 2011 (carrying the “America, I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel” sign).