I will be giving two poetry readings in Pittsburgh over the next couple months.
On May 18, 2017 I will be reading at Piccolo Forno at 7:00 pm to accompany the release of issue 7 of the After Happy Hour Review. Also reading will be Bob Hartley, Daniel Parme, Celine Roberts, and Daniel M. Shapiro.
On June 13, 2017 I will be reading at the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series. Also reading will be Nikki Allen, Jennifer Jackson Berry, Jason Irwin, Sharon Fagan McDermott, and Kayla Sargeson.
I will be reading at The Bonfire Reading Series with Dan Thomas-Glass on March 4, 2017 in Pittsburgh, PA. For more on the series, check out Guillermo Parra’s article and interview with the Bonfire Collective on The Best American Poetry blog. Landmark Tongues with Alan Lewandowski will also be performing.
I am happy to announce that my second volume of poetry, The Shape of Things, will be published this summer by Salò Press. More details to come.
“2015.17,” a poem from my ongoing sonnet sequence, just appeared in volume 17 of The Offbeat.
“2016.01,” “2016.19,” and “2016.23,” poems from my ongoing sonnet sequence, are in Masque & Spectacle.
“2015.01,” a poem from my ongoing sonnet sequence, was just published in TXTOBJX. The journal, edited by Andrew Kiraly, publishes what it calls “text objects,” which are “pieces of automatic fictoidal writing produced in one or two sessions.” A text object will be up on the site for a few days and then “the text object sinks into the shuffle and is accessible only randomly via the ‘nxtobjx’ link.” You can read more about the journal here.
A poem, “Architects and Their Books,” was posted recently on Verse‘s blog. The poem is an excerpt from a forthcoming portfolio, “The Shape of Things,” which was selected as a finalist for the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize and will be in print later this year in Verse.
Nuclear and Environmental
Justin Gillis, “Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries.”
Ross Andersen, “We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction.”
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, “On Extinction and Capitalism.”
Robert Macfarlane, “Generation Anthropocene.”
Will Worley, “Radioactive Wild Boar Rampaging around Fukushima Nuclear Site.”
Rebecca Evans, “Weather Permitting.”
It has been a very busy past few months, and my links have suffered. But spring break has provided some lovely, unencumbered time, so here are many, many links (futilely) attempting to catch up with what’s been happening in the world. (In the interest of space, I’ve also passed over some of the more visible recent stories.)
Nuclear and Environmental
Paul Krugman, “Republicans’ Climate Change Denial Denial.”
Democracy Now, “Naomi Klein on Paris Summit: Leaders’ Inaction on Climate Crisis Is ‘Violence” Against the Planet.”
Adrienne LaFrance, “The Chilling Regularity of Mass Extinctions.”
Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism.
Sebastian Anthony, “Scientists Discover an Ocean 400 Miles Beneath Our Feet that Could Fill Our Oceans Three Times Over.”
Kylie Mohr, “Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker’s ‘Survival Food.'”
Alex Trembath, “Are You and Upwinger or a Downwinger?”
Eric Bradner, “Newly Released Documents Reveal US Cold War Nuclear Target List.”
Six more of sonnets from the ongoing project just appeared in Empty Mirror.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 