Trans and Genderqueer SF & Fantasy: Some Slides from Philly
The novelist Rachel Gold and I gave a delightful (and well-attended!) talk at Philly Trans Health this weekend about trans, genderqueer and gender-variant characters and societies in science fiction...
View ArticleNew reviews, music edition: Scrawl, 33 1/3
Lots of new reviews and review-essays out in the last month or so and I haven’t been putting them up here in a timely fashion: I’ll post a few now divided into categories. A piece of music writing I...
View ArticleNew reviews, comics edition: Ms Marvel, X-Men podcast, comics throughout history
I’ve been thinking about superhero comics, too, and writing about them: Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), for example. I’ve also been listening to a podcast about them, and...
View ArticleNew reviews and poetry criticism: Laura Kasischke redux
Every few years Laura Kasischke publishes a new book of poetry and I try to explain why she’s so good, and also why that book is not just like her last book (because, so far, they never are). This year...
View ArticleNew reviewing: Morris Stegosaurus
Newest of all, at Cold Front I explain why you should strongly consider reading the poetry of Morris Stegosaurus. It says things about identity and fandom, or randoms, that nobody else has quite...
View ArticleNew interview with Matthea Harvey, with mermaids
Over at the Paris Review blog, I have the delightful privilege of carrying on an extended conversation with Matthea Harvey, whose new book would be rather amazing even if it didn’t also include visual...
View ArticleTerrance Hayes: “My daddies have voices”
I wrote about the poet Terrance Hayes, and also about Yona Harvey, for the New York Times Magazine. I’m rather happy with how it came out.
View Article“My 1985” in the New Yorker
I’ve got a poem called “My 1985” in the March 23, 2015 New Yorker. You can hear me read it aloud too. You can read about some of the things and characters named in that poem here, and here and here;...
View ArticleSee you at AWP 2015!
I’ll be happy to return temporarily to Minnesota for the Associated Writing Programs Conference (AWP) in Minneapolis, April 8-11 2015. I’m doing a few things (besides seeing friends and going to poetry...
View ArticleAll-Season Stephanie
My new chapbook All-Season Stephanie is now out and ready for you to order from the good folks at Rain Taxi, who published it! As the title implies, they are poems that show you (or show me) what my...
View ArticleA video/ audio reading in Scotland (sort of) with David Wheatley
A few weeks ago David Wheatley and I read together for the Scottish Poetry Library, in a delightful online-only real-time event orchestrated by Robert Peake and Jennifer Williams. You can now see...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago
I’ll be at the University of Chicago for two events Tuesday Jan. 19 and Wednesday Jan. 20 2016: on Tuesday I’ll be reading poetry and talking about my (very nonscholarly) versions of Callimachus at...
View ArticleNew reviews, comics edition: Ms Marvel, X-Men podcast, comics throughout history
I’ve been thinking about superhero comics, too, and writing about them: Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona’s Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), for example. I’ve also been listening to a podcast about them, and...
View ArticleNew reviews and poetry criticism: Laura Kasischke redux
Every few years Laura Kasischke publishes a new book of poetry and I try to explain why she’s so good, and also why that book is not just like her last book (because, so far, they never are). This year...
View ArticleNew reviewing: Morris Stegosaurus
Newest of all, at Cold Front I explain why you should strongly consider reading the poetry of Morris Stegosaurus. It says things about identity and fandom, or randoms, that nobody else has quite...
View ArticleNew interview with Matthea Harvey, with mermaids
Over at the Paris Review blog, I have the delightful privilege of carrying on an extended conversation with Matthea Harvey, whose new book would be rather amazing even if it didn’t also include visual...
View ArticleTerrance Hayes: “My daddies have voices”
I wrote about the poet Terrance Hayes, and also about Yona Harvey, for the New York Times Magazine. I’m rather happy with how it came out.
View Article“My 1985” in the New Yorker
I’ve got a poem called “My 1985” in the March 23, 2015 New Yorker. You can hear me read it aloud too. You can read about some of the things and characters named in that poem here, and here and here;...
View ArticleSee you at AWP 2015!
I’ll be happy to return temporarily to Minnesota for the Associated Writing Programs Conference (AWP) in Minneapolis, April 8-11 2015. I’m doing a few things (besides seeing friends and going to poetry...
View ArticleAll-Season Stephanie
My new chapbook All-Season Stephanie is now out and ready for you to order from the good folks at Rain Taxi, who published it! As the title implies, they are poems that show you (or show me) what my...
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