As part of the celebration of Smartish Pace 27 I made this video of me reading my three poems in the new issue, “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather.” It was May and still snowing here in Syracuse. I hope you enjoy.
Thank you again Stephen Reichert and the rest of the Smartish Pace ensemble for including my poems in this beautiful new issue! 🙂
You can snag yourself a copy of the issue HERE!
Having recently received a few gracious invitations to make videos — public things like poetry readings being on hold — I’ve made a YouTube page to keep them. There’s one there now, the video I made for the Best Microfiction 2020 book launch last week. I’ve also put up a few of the little video-lets of moments that I like to make. Lily pads in the sun, a fox…in the sun, rain on ivy, dew in a spider’s web, Montreal icicles, a Kansas windmill, airborne cottonwood fluff — that sort of thing. Have a visit!
As part of their virtual book launch today, the editors of the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology asked me to make a short video of myself reading my included story. The file’s too large for me to post here directly, but the link below will take you there!
Watch my reading HERE.
Grab a copy of the anthology HERE!
And with the traditional elderflower wine toast of “Skol!” the 2019 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing opens for its TENTH anniversary (Yay!) with readings by Director Alexander Weinstein and Instructor Robert James Russell.
Alexander Weinstein reads his fiction.
Robert James Russell reads his poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
Thank you to Kurt Milberger for a charming reading of “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” on his “Kurt Reads a Poem” YouTube channel. That was a fun surprise to find. This collaborative prose poem, written with Dustin Nightingale, was recently published in DIAGRAM 16.2.
Click HERE to watch.