Published & Reading

Kiss Me I Don't Have Smallpox is featured in the latest issue of The Idiom!
Volume 5 Issue 5 August 2010 is available as a free lit mag all over bars and other unlikely places in central NJ. You can find it at The Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ.

Ironically, I revised "Kiss Me" and emailed it to The Idiom last night.
Last night I appeared at the Brighton Bar for the monthly poetry show. Publisher didn't notify anyone who was in the zine and he was a bit peeved that I sent him a revision after it was published. I read the revision and I read "Magic". I also took advantage of the time at the podium to explain to the audience how language is alive and breathing and that poems change. When we revisit an image or memory or feeling we can access little word knobs to fine tune it. Often, I change words or add little details to sharpen the poem up. Sometimes I find a poem has 2 different moods or themes and I take it apart and write 2 separate poems. "Kiss Me" felt like two different poems wrestling on the page even though it was all from the same place of memory and feeling. Lately I have been missing everything I experienced last spring and summer and those people and places appear in my work. I just added some details at the end to rejoin the parts.

Go get your self The Idiom. My friend Jenny Blankenship did the cover art. Enjoy some living language.