Well, it looks like my second poetry collection, The Shape of Things (Salò, 2017), has sold out. Interested readers, however, can now access a copy on Academia.edu. So check out The Shape of Things (for the first time).
Poetry
Translations of Poems from The Shape of Things in Literatura and IDIOT
More translations of poems from my second book, The Shape of Things (Salò, 2017), are in the August 2019 issue of Literatura. Marko Bauer and Andrej Tomažin translated into Slovenian “An Ode to 2013: We Are the National Security Agency’s Children,” “Desertification Is Not Just the Earth’s Pastime,” “The Decibel Curfew Does Not Apply,” “That Was a Bad Idea,” and “I Am a Mechanic,” and they appear in Literatura under the general title “Oda letu 2013: Smo otroci Nacionalne varnostne agencije.”
Bauer and Tomažin previously translated “The Shape of Things I,” “Winter, or, Some (Future) Ambiguities,” and “We’re Just Like Yesterday’s Headlines” in the December 2016 issue of IDIOT. (The title of the translations are “Oblika reči I,” “Zima ali neke (prihodnje) dvoumnost,” and “Smo kot včerajšnje naslovnice.”)
“Ekphraseis” in Masque & Spectacle
Another poem from my new project, “Ekphraseis,” a poem for/about Taylor Baldwin‘s The Oracle (2016; above), is in the new issue (no. 18) of Masque & Spectacle. I previously published “2016.01,” “2016.19,” and “2016.23” in the September 2016 issue (no. 9) of Masque & Spectacle.
Summer 2019 Links
I had the privilege of meeting Richard Siken when I was quite young–an undergraduate at the University of Arizona–and he gave me lots of good advice on the poetry world (and life), conversations I still cherish. Please help him out.
Stroke Recovery Fund for Poet Richard Siken.
Nuclear and Environmental
Alenka Zupančič, “The Apocalypse Is (Still) Disappointing.”
James Livingston, “Time, Dread, Apocalypse Now.
Ted Nordhaus, “The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse.”
Jessica Hurley and Dan Sinykin, eds., Apocalypse, special issue of ASAP/Journal.
Frame, Apocalypse.
Brad Plumer, “Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace.”
Damian Carrington, “Why The Guardian Is Changing the Language It Uses about the Environment.”
“2016.35” in Nerve Cowboy
“2016.35,” a poem from my sonnet sequence, is in issue forty-five of Nerve Cowboy.
“2016.04” in the Breakwater Review
“2016.04,” a poem from my sonnet sequence, is in issue twenty-four of the Breakwater Review.
Words for the New Year: New Year’s Eve Reading
In Oneonta, New York on the Main Stage of the Foothills Performing Arts Center at 5 pm on December 31, 2018, I will be reading a few poems with a stellar lineup of writers from all around the Catskills. As part of the town’s First Night New Year’s Eve Celebration, Robert Bensen, Eva Davidson, Kirby Olson, Bertha Rogers, Julia Suarez Hayes, Jo Mish, and myself will be giving a reading, “Words for the New Year.”
For more information contact david@davidhayes.com or Julia Suarez Hayes at suarezj@hartwickcollege.edu.
“2015.28” in Tenebrae
“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.
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.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 