“2015.28,” a poem from my sonnet sequence, is in issue two of Tenebrae: A Journal of Poetics, published by Fathomsun Press. The issue can be ordered here.
Poetry
Reading of “Volcanoes/Organics” and Other Poems
On September 18, 2018, I read some poems with Julie Suarez-Hayes at SUNY Oneonta in Oneonta, NY for the Red Dragon Reading Series. I read “Volcanoes/Organics” and “Nothingness Introduced into the Heart of the Image,” from The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015), and “Fallout: New Vegas” and “An Open Letter to Narcissus: The Magazine by Narcissists, for Narcissists,” from The Shape of Things (Salò, 2017). I concluded with a couple poems from a new project, which I have omitted from the recording. Roger W. Hecht provided a wonderful introduction. Thanks to Ruth Carr for the recording, and to George Hovis and Bob Bensen for inviting me to read.
Here is a link to the audio.
And a clip of “Volcanoes/Organics”:
“2016.09” in amberflora
“2016.09,” a poem from my sonnet sequence, is in amberflora.
Fall Semester 2018: Syllabi
I am beginning my second year teaching English and creative writing at Hartwick College this week. Here is the syllabus for my fall class:
Reading of “Symphony of the Great Transnational”
Last night I was the featured writer at the monthly Writers’ Salon at the Center for the Arts Network of Oneonta in Oneonta, New York. Among other poems, I read “Symphony of the Great Transnational,” a long poem from my first book, The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015). Here is a link to the recording; a slightly different version of the poem was originally published in Spork in 2007.
“2016.15” in Likely Red
“2016.15,” another sonnet from my ongoing sequence, was published today in the online journal Likely Red.
“Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller” in Reading Inside Out
Shortly following the completion of my dissertation, in the summer of 2013 I had the great honor and privilege to interview one of the preeminent literary critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, J. Hillis Miller. That interview was published as “Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller” in the fall 2014 issue of boundary 2.
The interview has been reprinted in Reading Inside Out: Interviews and Conversations, a collection of interviews with Miller spanning the latter part of his career, edited by David Jonathan Y. Bayot and recently published by Sussex Academic Press. (The book is also available at a fairly reasonable price on Amazon.com.) In the table of contents below, I’ve provided links to where the other interviews in the volume were originally published (to the best of my ability).
Reading Inside Out: Interviews and Conversations, by J. Hillis Miller
Table of Contents
David Jonathan Y. Bayot, “Preface.”
J. Hillis Miller, “Introduction.”
Imre Salusinszky, “Criticism in Society” (1987).
Gary A. Olson, “Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and the Future of Critical Theory” (1994).
Fengzhen Wang and Shaobo Xie, “Stay! Speak, Speak. I Charge Thee, Speak” (2002).
Julian Wolfreys, “The Degree Zero of Criticism” (2004) and “Why Literature? A Profession” (2005).
Anfeng Sheng, “Literary Studies in Contexts” (2006).
Constanza del Río Álvaro and Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, “On Literature and Ethics” (2006).
Éamonn Dunne, “For the Reader to Come” (2010).
Éamonn Dunne, Michael O’Rourke, Martin McQuillan, Graham Allen, Dragan Kujundžić, and Nicholas Royle, “You See You Ask an Innocent Question and You’ve Got a Long Answer” (2014).
Bradley J. Fest, “Isn’t It a Beautiful Day?” (2014).
Christopher D. Morris, “A Critical Story So Far” (2015).
Reading at the Community Arts Network of Oneonta
I will be a featured writer at the monthly Writer’s Salon held by the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO) on Thursday, May 17, 2018 from 7:30 – 9:00 pm. CANO is in the Wilber Mansion at 11 Ford Ave. in Oneonta, NY. There will be an open mic, followed by a roughly forty-five minute reading of my work and a Q & A.
I will be reading selections from my first two books, The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch, 2015) and The Shape of Things (Salò, 2017), along with poems from my sequence, 2013-2016: Sonnets, and new poems from an untitled project.
February 2018 Links
Nuclear and Environmental
Tim Fernholz, “US Nuclear Tests Killed Far More Civilians than We Knew.”
Democracy Now, “Daniel Ellsberg Reveals He Was a Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter and Global Starvation.”
Daniel Bessner, “On the Brink.”
Alastair Tancred, “A Nuclear First Strike of North Korea Is ‘Tempting’, Says Legendary US Diplomat Henry Kissinger as Kim Jong-un Warns Trump Is Pushing Toward War.”
“Senator Markey Blasts Trump Administration’s Reckless Nuclear Posture Review.”
Helena Feder, “The Realism of Our Time: Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.”
Spring Semester 2018: Syllabi
I am beginning my second semester teaching English and creative writing at Hartwick College this week. Here are the syllabi for my two spring classes.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 