Last year on January 30th, my friend Dr. José Fernandez died of a heart attack on his way to work at a nearby hospital. […]
19 Jan
If you have been deciding whether your next read is going to be a novel or a poem, I have the perfect solution for […]
14 Jan
I went to Maria Lisella’s apartment in Queens, a walk from the train, the elevated N. She thoughtfully had prepared a meal for me, […]
14 Jan
I became friends with the Bangladeshi artist, Akash, on Facebook a while ago. I’m not sure when or why, but since then, I’ve enjoyed […]
12 Jan
Many of the poems in Julia Knobloch’s new chapbook, Book of Failed Salvation, are love poems that are secular, but explore the divine as well. […]
6 Jan
In Broken Color the poet looks at art, but the poems are not, to my mind, ekphrastic; the poems are more about the looking than […]
30 Dec
158 Like the dried up dead wasp with its venom gone rolled up on the windowsill like a ball of dust my […]
26 Dec
I read with Reuben Gelley Newman at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn a while back and enjoyed his work; he sang a song too, […]
19 Dec
Ama Birch got funding to talk to people in Ridgewood, Queens, hear their stories, and then make poems out of what she heard. Ridgewood […]
16 Dec
About a half year ago, I began to notice that Tim Milk was posting some of his work on Facebook, woodcuts that he was […]
27 Nov
One of my favorite paintings, El Perro (The Dog) as it is called—I think you could call it The Abyss—was never given a title […]
20 Nov
In October Wayne Koestenbaum read at the Segue Reading Series at Artists Space in Cortlandt Alley, right off Canal. Lonely Christopher, the curator and host, […]
