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Comments and Tangents
A space for anything that I feel like rambling about, whether it is relevant or not.
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Chapbook Review
The Infernal Gaze reviewed in a recent issue of Gin Bender Poetry Review.
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Another Chapbook Review
from a recent issue of Pebble Lake Review. |
Images Of Arizona
One of the projects that I am working on, is a collection of poetry from Arizona. For a glimpse into the more scenic aspects of the state, click on the picture to the right, for the online gallery of Jess Vogelsang's photography.
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A Generation Defining Itself
A poem (Cocoon) from my chapbook, has been included in volume 5 of the In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself anthology. It's an interesting collection, with work from Kathryn Knudson and John E. Smelcer making an immediate impression on me. For more information about this project, click on the link to the left. |
Steady Diet Of Nothing
Music has always been a huge inspiration to me, so it was exciting (and unexpected) to have one of my poems appear in a recent issue of Premiere Generation Ink, along with a 17 page interview with Guy Picciotto from the great indie-core band Fugazi.
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Art Imitates Imitations Of Art
Several years ago, Branches Quarterly held a contest to see if one of my poems could inspire any good visual interpretations, by artists. Apparently there werent many (or any) entries, but I am grateful for this painting by New York artist Anne Lytt, that was eventually passed along to me.
In writing this poem I can only hope
that you will attempt to remember this page
before I defaced it
before this ink had dried
... before even it was moist
please do not allow yourself
to be distracted by any of the words
that these letters tend to spell
or any of the phrases
that these words may perhaps shape
ignore even these instructions
strive only to envision the kinetic
beauty that is inherent
within the blank
page
do not contemplate why one line
ends or the next
begins
do not analyze anything that you have read
because if you can avoid
any of the limitations of letters words
punctuation phrases stanzas
conceptions perceptions
that would be success |
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