My first published poem, “The Siege of Baghdad,” is live over at The Bookends Review. It’s about a topic I’ve found myself writing on “again and again.”
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My review of Ana María Shua’s microfiction collection “House of Geishas” is now up over at Literal Magazine. From the review:
Ana María Shua may be one of the best living practitioners of [microfiction]. Though the Argentinian has written novels, poetry, and children’s books, she is best known for her microfiction, often described as the “queen” of the genre. Indeed, there is so much going on in the pages of House of Geishas, but somehow more going on off the page, which is a credit to the author’s ability. In the book, she demonstrates her complete mastery of the form, providing incisive and cutting tales that question, wound, bemuse, and befuddle.
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My short story “Space Tears Can Hurt” was featured over at Pulp Literature’s Throwback Thursday. You can buy a copy of the journal with “Space Tears” in it directly from Pulp online. Digital is only $5.
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Another test post—I’m using Ulysses, now, to see how it would publish a blog post directly from the iPad. Did this work?
Walt Whitman
This test post features a photo of Walt Whitman, when he was just a few years older than I am now. Starting out 2023, I finally read the 1855 version of “Leaves of Grass,” which has been long on my to-read pile, after coming across some commentary on it in Jesse Ball’s “Autoportrait”—Ball talked about how the 1855 version of “Leaves” was one of the books he’s obsessed with. It seemed as good a time as any to pluck the old red, white and blue Barnes & Noble classic edition from my bedroom shelf.
I’d read a lot of Whitman here and there, but “Leaves” was really astonishing in many ways—not just for its frankness, but its incredible range of empathy, vision, and poetic thought. I kept pulling out quotes and saving them to my notes. Stuff so good you’d want it to be read at your funeral. How on earth did Whitman get away with writing this stuff at the time?
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Hello. This is just a test post to see how everything works. Getting back into this thing. Trying out a few things.
How about an image of a Cooper’s hawk?
So far so good. Let’s try some other things:
“Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.”
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New Site
If by some chance you’ve stumbled upon this site, I’m in process of reworking it and getting some of the old content and links to my work back live.