What a total delight Dustin Nightingale and I had this evening reading our collaborative poetry alongside awesome collaborative duos Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman, as part of the “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion.” Thank you Meg for inviting us, and thank you to all the great folks who attended the reading and discussion!
On May 1st Dustin Nightingale and I will be reading/discussing our poetry collaborations as part of a collaborative writing Zoom event with Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and hosts Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. We’ve never done a collaborative reading, and we’re really excited about this!
Join us!
Email Meg for the Zoom link at megpokrass(at)gmail(dot)com.
Here’s the Facebook Event page.
We’re the back cover of the new Denver Quarterly! Holy moly! Friends, I’m over-the-moon to have received contributor copies of the new issue of Denver Quarterly whose theme is collaborative writing. It contains three prose poems I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. And they put one on the back cover! What a thrill! Thank you to Vincent James and everyone at the Denver Quarterly!
Delighted to share the news that the Denver Quarterly just accepted three poems: “Ants Gather at the Puncture,” “Government Wine,” and “Itty Bitty City” — all collaborative prose poems from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.
My friend and oft poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale types poems on demand at this year’s gala fundraiser for the Mark Twain House in Hartford Connecticut. (Photos by Sean Patrick Fowler.)
Three prose poems from my collaborative project with Dustin Nightingale have just been published online in the new issue of Bear Review. Thank you to editors Marcus Myers, Ruth Williams, Haines Eason, and Andrew Reeves for giving a home to “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake.”
Read the poems HERE.
Massive thank yous to the good editor folks of Bear Review for accepting “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music,” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths,” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake” — three collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale.
What a thrill to hold in my hands my contributor copy of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing just out from Black Lawrence Press. The names on the table of contents make my head spin. Dustin Nightingale and I are absolutely looped to have three of our collaborative prose poems appear in this anthology: “Staring Out a Window Echoing the Actual Moon” and “And Me With Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” first published in DIAGRAM, and “I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” first published in Two Peach. Thank you to the editors who initially published these and to Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, and Jackie White for including us in this amazing volume.
(Click the poem titles above to read the poems as originally published!)
My friend and poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale’s chapbook Ghost Woodpecker has just been published by BatCat Press. It’s his first book and it’s one of those you’ll want to hold close to your skin, like under your shirt when it starts to rain. The poems are very, very short. They’ll break your heart, make you laugh, and provide you with the kind of dirty light we need to navigate our subterranean corridors. This letter-pressed volume, handset with vintage metal type, hand-printed and -bound, features a different found film slide embedded in the cover of each unique copy. So it’s also a work of art on that level.
What a thrill to receive my contributor issue of the Southern Indiana Review, which contains, “A Small Choir of Sour Voices” and “I Am a Speaker You Are Vibrating,” two collaborative prose poems I’ve written with Dustin Nightingale. The issue also contains three of Dustin’s own personal prose poems! It’s a massive joy to share this issue with the likes of Erika Meitner, Susannah Nevison, Ashley M. Jones, Kat Finch, and Liz A. Johnson and more! A thousand thousand thanks to Marcus Wicker, Ron Mitchell, and the rest of the good folks at SIR!