Author: afterthoughtgraveyard
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Still Here & Romanticism
image via Mary Corse. Deactivated my Facebook for a bit (forever?). Also, rekindling my love of Raymond Carver, bumped into this poem like an old friend: Romanticism The nights are very unclear here. But if the moon is full, we know it. We feel one thing one minute, something else the next. What else is…
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Spring
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is…
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10 Years of Poets off Poetry & AWP Tampa
I’m late posting this news here but after 10 years I’ve decided to put my series Poets off Poetry/Song of the Week on an indefinite hiatus. I wrote something to try to commemorate the moment. You can read it here. 10 years is a long time to do something and toward the end of 2017 the…
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New Year, Old Stuff: The Elephants
Well, here we are, another year. They do seem to feel less eventful as they accumulate, don’t they? Or maybe they are eventful except they stop really feeling that way? Or maybe it’s just me? I forgot to tell you about some poems that got published in December. The Elephants, a new-ish press and journal,…
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Reading at KGB & New Issues of Boog City & Movin’ On
Sort of last minute to be posting here but I am reading tomorrow night for The New School After Hours, with fellow MFA alums and current MFA-ers. The reading is at KGB, all the way upstairs in the Red Room. The reading starts at 7pm. Find more details here. Also, since I’ve last posted, two…
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New Boog City Interview and Welcome to Boog City Fest This Weekend
A new issue of Boog City is up with my interview with Argos Books. You can read it here. Argos Books is also the featured press for the d.a. levy lives portion of the Welcome to Boog City Poetry Festival this weekend. The full line up for the festival this weekend can be found here.…
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Reading at AWP and Stacey Tran’s Fake Haiku!
Next week is AWP, and even though it is in D.C. this year (aka the belly of the beast), I am still excited to go spend the weekend with poets. I am reading on Thursday night at the D.C. Arts Center for Bloof Books. Facebook invite here. In other news, Stacey Tran’s chapbook Fake Haiku…
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Gramma Daily & Women’s March NYC This Weekend
It’s been a minute but I have some new-ish poems up at Gramma this week. You can read them here. It feels good to have some new poems out in the world. It’s hard to believe that this Friday is Inauguration Day. Though I am not making the trek to DC, I will be participating…
No Help for That | Jackie Clark 