DIALOGUES

Writing is a conversation between the self and the world. We write to enter that conversation. We also write to articulate ideas, and sometimes we need to reconfigure our relationships with language to do that; other times we don’t. I’m a poet first, I think, and I try to bring a poet’s sensibility to all my writing. Recently, I’ve been interested in how a genre might expand to include conventions and inventions from other traditions (and ones newly formed) to create something entirely new but familiar. Language is changing; my students declare. Language is music; my songwriting keeps nagging. Language is art; alphabets remind me.

SOME CREDITS

(published and forthcoming – in no particular order)

Poetry:




An Improvised Device
Geography of Evidence

PRINT–

Arch and Quiver
Lyric Review
Ararat
Colere
Traverse (supplement #1)
Runes
The Improper
Scars Editions - The Elements (anthology)
Black Zinnias
Arson
Minimus

ONLINE–
Segue
Midtown Literary Review
Whalelane
Rattapallax
can we have our ball back
Diagram
Steel Point Quarterly
House Taken Over
Poetrybay

Fiction:

Poetry Midwest

NonFiction:

LI Pulse
Newsday
Armenian Reporter
CHAIN
Inside Connection
Improper Hamptonian
AITIA

Hybrids:

Experimental Essays for
Longislandmusicscene.com

Anthology:

Haiku One Breaths

Modern Muses
In The Arms of Words:
Poems For Disaster Relief

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