Poetry
Assaracus [01.26]
“The New Year”
“Sleeping Sickness”
“Devotional”
“Travel”
“IFF / Somerville”
“Another Beautiful Empty Room”
“April”
“On Mother’s Day”
“A Kindness”
“Concision”
Hold Me Through [02.25]
“Modus Tollens”
Hanging Loose [12.24]
“Autobiography”
“Cupbearer”
“The Good Gay Poet in Winter”
Seaford Review [11.24]
"At the Condo in Woodstock"
Cape Cod Review [11.24]
"Providence"
The Cortland Review [10.24]
“On Reed St.”
“Geneva”
shitwonder [05.24]
“Cairns”
Oh Yeah: A Bear Poetry Anthology [05.24]
“On Passing Taylor River Reservoir”
“At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum”
“Only Once”
“Leaving Logan Intl.”
“5423 Northeast 22nd Terrace”
“Some Other Summer”
Stone Canoe [04.24]
“My Own Private National Olympic Committee”
Impossible Archetype [03.24]
“Halcyon Lodge / Winter Guests”
The Comstock Review [02.24]
“Febrauary, Las Olas”
Frozen Sea [10.23]
“Doting”
“Crossing Burlington Ferry”
Dover Public Library’s 21st Annual Poetry Anthology [04.23]
“On the Ferry from Teddy Hykal’s Home”
Bivouac Magazine [11.22]
“Henniker Rain Poem”
Post Road [08.22]
“Interiors”
“Ogunquit Painting Poem”
“Riverside in West Forks”
Blueline Magazine [07.22]
“Turn the Night Into Day”
“Cranberry Lake Poem”
“Defining Ice”
The Book of Korinethians [05.22]
“Moondog in Havana”
the lickety~split [9.21]
“Old Port”
“Day Fourteen”
Olney Mag [09.21]
“Spring Date / Sunday Drive”
Olney Mag [02.21]
“& Approaching the Merrimack River”
Voice Lux [12.20]
“Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know”
Fourteen Poems [12.20]
“From Cinnabar Basin”
Neutral Spaces [08.20]
“A Crown for Gabriel”
Mineral Lit Mag [03.20]
“Chrysanthemums”
Malasaña [01.20]
“Preface”
Variety Pack [01.20]
“Lakeland at Night”
Pom Pom Lit [08.19]
“It’s not in what you do, more in what you say”
Peach Mag [08.18]
“How to Be Alone”
OUT/CAST [08.18]
“38 Pierrepont”
Peach Mag [06.18]
“This Too Shall Pass”
Tenderness Lit [03.18]
“Little Voices, Little Waves”
“Lucid Dreaming”
Sea Foam Mag [03.17]
“Poem”
Reality Beach [12.16]
“Cartography”
“Documentary Poetics”
PNK PRL [10.16]
“This Beautiful Room is Still Empty”
North Country XXXII [05.16]
“Transcend”
“Mykonos”
Maudlin House [05.16]
“Considerations”
Atrocity Exhibition [01.16]
“Sketchbook”
“Islands”
“Studio”
“Navigator”
North Country XXXI [05.15]
“Exhale”
“Visiting Green Lakes”
North Country XXX [05.14]
“Apartments”
Prose
spoKe [03.25]
“‘A Place for Me’: On the Poetry of Ron Schreiber”
Malasaña [09.21]
“Sites of Suffering and Joy: The Importance of Place in Poetry of the AIDS Crisis”
Pandemic Watchlists [05.20]
“Movies for the End of the World”
Anomalous [05.17]
“New Developments in the Contemporary Gay Novel”
Lockjaw [06.15]
“Choose Your Own Adventure”
Lectures
Poetry and the Time-Image [06.26 @ KPWC]
In Cinema 2: The Time-Image, the second volume of Gilles Deleuze's influential work on film theory, he provides a philosophical framework for understanding modern and contemporary cinema. Using this framework, along with various film examples, we'll investigate how each of the "time-images" Deleuze identifies could possibly be used in poems to explore the direct representation of time through fragmented images, memory, and the collapse of the sensory-motor schema.
Devotional Acts: Locating Transcendence in Poetry and the Cinema of the Avant-Garde [06.25 @ KPWC]
Using filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky's 2003 monograph, Devotional Cinema, as a jumping-off point, we'll consider the ways in which the work of various twentieth and twenty-first century avant-garde filmmakers functions as the artistic endeavor closest to poetry, and we'll examine how the two forms are in conversation with one another and striving for similar results. In understanding the writings of film historian P. Adams Sitney and filmmaker Paul Schrader, we will try to locate the balance of the "devotional state" Dorsky describes and consider ways in which we can approximate this in our own writing.
In Suffering / With Joy: On Time, Place, and the AIDS Crisis [06.24 @ KPWC]
In looking at the work of various poets, essayists, novelists, filmmakers, and visual artists, we’ll piece together a history of the AIDS crisis in relation to both space and (ecstatic) time. We will begin a theoretical framing of memory and queer futurity before turning to numerous examples of the gay experience as reflected through work about private, personal, and public moments of both joy and grief. Together we will discuss the work of writers and artists such as Ron Schreiber, Tim Dlugos, James Merrill, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger, David Wojnarowicz, Félix González-Torres, and others.
Workshops
Doing Lines: On Working with Poetic Fragments [06.26 @ KPWC]
The goal of this workshop is to generate as many new lines of poetry (or prose) as possible. Rotating through nine different stations, you'll be presented with various exercises for writing single lines or poetic fragments, and these can serve either as seeds for new work or as lines you might use when revising old drafts. Hopefully the verse or prose lines generated in this workshop will carry you throughout the week, and even after you leave the conference. Be sure to bring along a notebook, as well as drafts of pieces you're stuck with or having trouble revising—you'll use these at one of the stations!
Ritual and Nature: On Slow Cinema, Avant-Garde Trance Films, and Writing Towards Transcendence [06.25 @ KPWC]
In this workshop, we continue our discussion about the connection between poetry and the cinema of the avant-garde. We will begin by watching Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line (1970) before exploring the trance films of Maya Deren and Jean Cocteau, and the (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals of CAConrad. We will then take a walk outside before reconvening to experiment with writing towards a transcendental / devotional practice.
“I Remember, I Remember”: On Memory and Proxemics [06.24 @ KPWC]
This generative workshop uses Joe Brainar’s experimental memoir, I Remember (1970) as a jumping off point for us to create our own lists of memories and tangents that are prefixed with the phrase, “I remember...” Our discussion then shifts focus to the importance of proxemics and space and how these factor into a work—poetry, prose, film, photography—and writers’ recollections of it. The goal for this workshop is to walk away not with a finished draft of a single piece, but rather with a collection of fragments formed from memory, a long list of beginnings to explore in your writing later on.
Photography
North Country XXXII [05.16]
“The Mohican at Fort William Henry, Lake George, NY”
North Country XXXI [05.15]
“Willow Path”
North Country XXX [05.14]
“John Brown Farm”
“Jewell Trail”
Gandy Dancer [10.13]
“Mount Washington”
Press & Interviews
A Swimming Pool Library [12.25]
Referential [11.25]
Referential [06.25]
Fevers of the Mind [08.21]
Microcosmo [09.20]
Fly on the Wall Press [11.19]
Shabby Doll House [06.17]
Maudlin House [03.17]
Entropy [02.17]
Lit Hub [09.16]
Maudlin House [07.16]
Recorded Readings
Performance Anxiety [08.20]
