I made this short video of me reading my poem “We Might As Well Be Hovering,” with accordion accompaniment by my partner Sarah. I’ve also posted it on my YouTube page. Thanks for watching! You can find the poem in my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021).
Category Archives: Audio
Reading the opening of a lyric essay on WRVO’s The Campbell Conversations!
It was awesome to be asked to read my creative nonfiction for yesterday’s episode of The Campbell Conversations on WRVO, celebrating the work of writers associated with The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse. Sitting at home in a bedroom closet last week — with my phone balanced on my knee — I read the first 6 minutes of my lyric essay, “Go Away and Stay Right Here,” originally published in the Colorado Review. My reading leads off the episode which also features luminous performances by Jessica Cuello, Georgia Popoff, and Arthur Flowers.
Give a listen HERE!
Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology!
Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!
You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!
My Interview & Reading on The Campbell Conversations on WRVO
In case you missed this weekend’s radio broadcasts, you can now stream my interview on The Campbell Conversations on WRVO by Grant Reeher, Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University. I discuss my poetic practice, contemporary poetry…I read from my lyric essay “Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough” and from my second poetry book, “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun,” which just won Elixir Press’ 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award and will be published there next year. You can stream the show HERE, and thanks for listening!
“The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” Published Online at The Cincinnati Review!
My microfiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has just been published online at The Cincinnati Review as part of their miCRo Series. Please click the link below to read it, or to listen to the audio of me reading it to you! 🙂 Thank so much Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, and the rest of the kind folks at The Cincinnati Review!
Read/listen HERE!
Audio Interview Posted @ The Missouri Review!
An interview I did this summer with The Missouri Review audio editor Traci Cox – about poetry, my writing process, and my poems featured in the Winter 2016 issue of the Missouri Review – has just been posted on TMR Soundbooth Podcast. Thanks so much again for this wonderful conversation, Traci!
You can listen HERE.
Listen to Interview & Reading on Flour City Yawp
I had a great time reading and talking about my poetry last Thursday with Albert Abonado on his radio show Flour City Yawp on WAYO 104.3FM Rochester!
Listen to a podcast of the show HERE.
Interviewed for Where It’s At Podcast
A while back I was interviewed about poems from my first book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy for Where It’s At with Bob Early. The episode just went live. Thanks again to Bob for inviting me to talk about my work. I hope you all enjoy listening.
You can listen to the podcast on SoundCloud HERE.
Recording Poems for The Missouri Review
Had a great time recording my poems for The Missouri Review this afternoon with Ron Keck at SubCat Music Studios LLC in Downtown Syracuse!
Collaborative Poem “In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot” Just Published in Ghost Ocean
Ahoy there friends! Ghost Ocean 19 has just been published and it includes a prose poem I wrote collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale – “In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot.” There’s also audio of us reading the poem – we sound sedated, but really we were just tired from a long day. Thanks so much Editor Heather Cox!
Read and listen to the poem HERE.