“2015.11” and “2015.12,” two sonnets from my ongoing sequence, are in the sixth issue of Adjacent Pineapple. Thanks to Colin Herd for his patience with these.
Bradley Fest
“Blason I,” “Blason II,” and “Blason III” in The Second Chance Anthology
“Blason I,” “Blason II,” and “Blason III,” poems from my current ongoing project, Postrock, have been republished in The Second Chance Anthology, which will appear from Variant Literature on August 1, 2020. (Order it here; read it here.) The anthology features “work that has been pulled, withdrawn, [or] removed without notice from” a number of different publications. I’m especially thankful to Tyler Pufpaff and the editors of Variant Literature for finding a new home for the orphaned writing of so many great writers.
“2019.03” in Pine Hills Review
Untitled, by Courtney Bernardo
Another sonnet from my ongoing sequence, “2019.03,” is in the Pine Hills Review.
“Paraclausithyron” in Flatbush Review
Another poem from my new project, “Paraclausithyron,” is in the fifth issue of the Flatbush Review.
Poetics for the More-than-Human World Readings
To accompany the online publication of “Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary” at Dispatches for the Poetry Wars, along with its eventual print publication by Spuyten Duyvil, the editors have organized a series of ten readings over the next few months. The first reading kicks off next week, June 25, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. EDT with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Patricio Ferrari, Peter O’Leary, Stephanie Strickland, Harriet Tarlo, Orchid Tierney, and Edwin Torres.
On July 16, 2020 at 4:00 pm EDT I’ll be reading with Cara Chamberlain, Petra Kuppers, Jake Levine, Eléna Rivera, Arthur Sze, and Jen Web.
Find our more on the anthology’s Facebook and Eventbrite pages.
“2016.31,” “2016.33,” “2016.36: Preface,” and “2017.01: Afterword” in Always Crashing
More poems from my ongoing sonnet sequence, “2016.31,” “2016.33,” “2016.36: Preface” (a long prefatory poem), and “2017.01: Afterword,” are in the third issue of Always Crashing. I’m delighted to share the pages with Louis Armand, Jill Khoury, Joe Sacksteder, Claire Marie Stancek, John Trefry, and many others.
There will also be a two night reading celebrating the issues release at 7:00 p.m. on May 28 and 29, 2020, via Zoom. RSVP at https://bit.ly/2WGDD7d. I’ll be reading for a few minutes on the 29th.
“Meditations at Oneonta” and “Humid Figures and a Handful of Dust” in Pamenar
Two more poems from my new project, “Meditations at Oneonta” and “Humid Figures and a Handful of Dust,” are in Pamenar Online Magazine. Honored to have these in this excellent and supportive international journal. I also recorded “Meditations at Oneonta”; you can listen to it here.
Twenty-First-Century Forms at MLA 2021
Update: Deadline Extended until March 29, 2020.
Given my ongoing interest in megatexts and other emerging hybrid and transmedia forms, I am organizing a panel on emergent literary forms of the twenty-first-century for the 2021 Modern Language Association Convention in Toronto, Ontario. Please consider submitting an abstract to festb[at]hartwick[dot]edu.
“2019.04” in Rabid Oak
“2019.04,” the first published poem from the second volume of my ongoing sonnet sequence (vol. 1: 1 2013-2017; vol. 2: 2018-?), is in issue 17 of Rabid Oak.
Spring Semester 2020: Syllabi
This spring, I’m teaching two brand new courses at Hartwick College: a writing-intensive course covering the poetry of Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Eileen Myles, and Claudia Rankine; and a senior seminar on John Ashbery. Lots of great poetry! The syllabi:
ENGL 247 Four Modern American Poets: Rich, Lorde, Myles, and Rankine
The Hyperarchival Parallax 