The definition of the term “good” is always culturally informed. What are our values? What values did we inherit—from our families, our friends, our communities, our claimed identities? Aaron Sorkin thinks he has goodness, but not everyone does.
Category: Art
Books I Lived with in 2019
Happy New Year, friends! I hope 2020 is off to a great start for you and your loved ones. I've been under the weather all year, but as they say, no place to go but up! Anyway, as the clock hit midnight on New Years Eve and our neighbors ignited all manner of fireworks, I …
Hear Me Read This Week!
If you happen to be in the vicinity of Colorado's Front Range this week and want to hear some poems, please come hear me read from my thesis manuscript (that I just finished writing!!) alongside the inimitable and brilliant poet Emma Hyche. Here are the deets: Thursday, April 11 7PM Gregory Allicar Museum of Art …
Art after #MeToo
It’s a sentiment we hear debated a lot these days: love the art, hate the artist. Is this possible? What if the artist in question used the fame, wealth, and power they earned from making their art to hurt others? On the one hand, it’s impossible to separate art from its creator. On the other, …
Who Says It’s Over?
I don't feel like a very patriotic person these days. I'm not proud of America—neither now nor of our past. I don't really understand what American culture is and, when I do, it makes me sad and angry to think that foreigners associate Americans with loud, pushy, short-sentenced, nouveau riche, white men. At a Gillian …
My First Chapbook!
I'm so happy to announce that my first chapbook, Pulse, is now available from Ghost City Press! If you are also compelled by bodies and gravity and light and desire, please visit their website to download a PDF copy. Pulse is free but, should you choose to donate, all donations will come directly to me--so thank you …
I’m on a podcast!
Check out Colorado Review's most recent podcast episode! I sit down with Meghan Pipe and Stephanie G'Schwind to discuss the Fall issue of the magazine and other literary things we're grateful for. Listen to me read some dope poems from the issue! http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/november-2017-podcast-fallwinter-2017-editors-chat/ Love to all.
