Reflection on 2016’s Visit to Mumbai
Category: My Poetry
A political poem “People of the Sun” read for the Resist Reading on April 27, 2017.
Written for the Resist reading at the Anderson School’s Thorndike Room in Bothell, Washington, on 4/27/17.
Part sound, part collage, part blah poem. “Anarcho-junk.”
For Paul and Tiffany Chuk
So I’m not writing books, but I am writing long and girthy bodies of short poems.
At yesterday’s event, I presented an essay that included several new poems embedded within. The poems (slightly edited from the essay) are below. The essay (which is rough, unfinished, and designed mostly for performance) can be read via PDF here.
These two books of poetry mark the final books I make for the foreseeable future. Both are for Scherezade Siobhan.
For the first time in a few years, I have made an effort to host a Winter Solstice arts event.
The 144 page special anti-Trump-regime edition of openly-licensed email-based/Tumblr-based poetry journal Elderly is now available for reading.
I’ve been working on some “last writings” for some time, they’re on their way.
Written for Veteran’s Day, 2016 and for Footsteps: For Homeless Vets. There is also a live reading of this poem.
After Roma
This Friday there will be a poetry reading in Phinney Ridge at the gallery known as Le Merde.
Approximately one year ago, I started publishing Cambodia Bladed on Queen Mob’s Tea House. The serial work of prose poems and black and white photography remains, even today, one of my favorite works.