Sadly, I’ve nothing new to report. Life is still tremendously getting in the way of everything literary. Keep your ears pricked up, however, for an update on Ministers of Grace within the next month. I missed National Poetry Day in the UK. ::siiiiigh:: I’d hoped to have at least one draft of something out by…
Category: Poetry
Works that employ figurative language, metrical patterns and words that rhyme.
Update & Octaves (beta version)
Seriously – it’s almost October? It’s been a truly insane month since I last had the chance to post here, and I’m sad to report that not a lot of writing has been going on. I had a reading of my book at the Swift Hibernian Lounge. Here’s a photo of me reading my book…
Back to work! (Obstinacy Part 2)
Last night, for the first time in more than a year, I got back to redrafting Book 2. It’s superexciting. I can’t wait for you all to meet Shakti and Yusufina. They’re two of my favorites. Amazing that it happened on the eve of my reading, too. Yessirree, my reading and book launch is TONIGHT at…
News, Reviews & Writing Cues (Obstinacy)
First of all, I’m elated to announce that I’ve sent out all the Kickstarter rewards, and that means that the Great Self-Publishing Adventure of 2012 all done and dusted. If you were to perform a chemical analysis of my internal composition, you’d discover that I’m at least 67% Gratitude for all the love and support…
Transubstantiation
I went to the MoMA last Tuesday and had what can best be referred to as a religious experience. This is what I wrote about it. ♥ EAB Transubstantiation It’s underneath your heels, pushing you forward, the breath of a whisper against your neck, the tipping after the tap of your footfalls on the pavement. You…
Closet Cleaning: Muñeca & Forgiveness
…and now for something completely unrelated to all things concerning Ministers of Grace. These are two poems composed relatively recently that I need to release. I’m currently creating some much-needed space in my mentalemotionalspiritual closet, and it just won’t do, having these in taking up the floor in there. ♥ EAB Written in November 2012, this…
Anodyne
Anodyne …it’s the body’s betrayal: microbiological entities that are incapable of dialogue or reason, just random injury that’s predicated on susceptibilities and sets of unpredictable hieroglyphs that determine the coriolis of the ear, the dusty webs of the irises, (…) the strictly elliptical orbits of the moons in my fingertips. …the prescribed medicine spreads, reinforcing…
The Anniversary & An Update
Status Update: I’ve been workingtoilingjobbing a lot lately—six to seven days a week, an average of nine hours a day—which means I’ve had little time for pretty much everything. It’s my hope that at some point in the relatively near future, I’ll be able to share the creative fruit of this financially recuperative endeavor. I’m still…
Moraine
It’s no secret that I take after the confessional poets’ model, and this opus on love and loss is no exception. Later tonight, I’m going to burn a slip of paper that lists all the things I don’t want to carry forward with me into 2013, and what pains me most in this poem will…