https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_uEarz1B0E I have some exciting news to share! This summer Coast|NoCoast, an independent press based in Seattle, is publishing my new chapbook, "Facing the Mirror: An Essay." The chapbook is a long prose poem concerning the mirror, its history, and my fraught relationship with it as someone who struggles with a mental disorder known as …
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Support Black Poets
These past few months have been difficult even for those of us who haven't been sick or lost loved ones or been laid off, and on top of the coronavirus pandemic there have been a spate of tragic killings of Black people by police, as well as other racist incidents like the confrontation in Central …
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, …
New Mexico, Land of Enchantment, Land of Circles
After two and a half weeks in the high-altitude New Mexico desert sun, I confess my summer freckles have returned. I like to think of them as my skin’s seasonal blossoming. They’re little circular perennials, roots dug deep and hibernating all winter long, waiting for a warm week to reappear. I stayed in Abiquiú, New …
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National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, so what better time of year for a blog post about poetry? When I was an undergraduate, one of my English professors challenged all the students in my class to think of just five living poets (published, please- not your friend who has a Tumblr). I was surprised but not …
Poem: A Beat Behind
A Beat Behind Kant says we are removed from these moments of our lives and we only know their effect just as our vision of stars’ light, living on after their technicolored deaths, is distant from the star itself, heaving gas and heat, a flame – no, a frame of light just visible and always …
Beauty is “of the soul”
Back when I was in college, one English professor assigned us all of Edgar Allan Poe's collected works to read. Most people are familiar with "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" thanks to our public school system and Halloween, but I don't think many have exposure to Poe's essays. If I were to list the …
