I’ve been teaching poetry in the schools for the past couple years with Red Hen Press. This spring presented new challenges because of the pandemic–we had to do everything through zoom. Because of this, I couldn’t improvise in class as I usually do. So instead I wrote some thoughts on ways to enter and think […]
Um…gosh…I’m up on banners. One does not ever expect this… I’ve still not gotten out to see them –but this weekend for sure! Thank you so much to the City of West Hollywood for your ongoing support of poetry. Press release from the City of West Hollywood: The City of West Hollywood will celebrate National Poetry […]
This is the Soaring Teapot (photo from Mapquest). It’s in Temple City, on the corner of Rosemead Blvd and Las Tunas. I talk a little bit about something very much like this in Light From Uncommon Stars. But not exactly. In fact, there are a lot of things that I don’t say exactly. That’s a […]
Wow… this morning I noticed I had about 80 more Twitter followers?! It’s been like surprises like that—in that in different ways these past few months. To new readers, thank you so much for your openness, your generosity, and your attention. I hope that you enjoy the book. Please I know that I wrote this […]
So, I created a new poem and performance for the 2021 Sundance Festival, and I was really happy with it. It’s not often a piece comes at me with such urgency. And–I guess the viewers enjoyed it as well. One of the directors of our show, the amazing Annie Tippe, showed me this review from […]
I just read an advert for smart pajamas. I do not want smart pajamas. Smart pajamas would tell me to put the phone away, stop making poor life choices, eat more cruciferous vegetables. I want stupid pajamas. Pajamas so stupid that they are willing to grow soft and old with me… that will listen to […]
This is one of those events that seem almost surreal even a couple weeks after the fact. I was asked to Zoom speak to Professor Pilar Milagros and her literature class at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Because of the time difference, my lecture started at 11:00 PM and lasted until 12:30 AM the next […]
Wow…this was a total surprise. It’s been a whirlwind from last weekend, I got a note asking if I could be part of this show at the Sundance Film Festival and of course I said yes. And then I only had a couple days to prepare something for them. But I really enjoyed the entire […]
While using Microsoft Word, I left my voice-to-text set to English, and my mic picked up the Japanese radio station that I was listening to. Here’s what resulted: today call you we get is there talk about the liturgy no it’s so another one is stretch I want to massage we don’t have to stand […]
I’ve been more than a little quiet this summer. But much of that has been for a book that I’m very excited about, my forthcoming novel, Light From Uncommon Stars. If all goes well, it should be out by Fall 2021. The publisher is Tor Books. ]Not in a million years would I have guessed that […]