Poet and Artist in Seattle
My latest Rain Taxi contribution finds its way into the print edition of the publication. For Spring 2023, my review of The Beloved of the Dawn by Franz Fühmann can be read, explored, savored. Order the magazine here. See my other reviews listed out here.
Thanks to R.K. for recording the reading this past Saturday at Super Position. Details in the YouTube description.
My first review in the online Hopscotch Translation is now available. I’m excited to announce that a longer review of Tilsa Otta’s And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing is now available. I’m looking forward to more reviews published through Hopscoch down the road, as I continue to be enamored with translation.
My March review for North of Oxford is out. Read it here.
I’m excited to share the flier for the upcoming Super Position reading on March 11, 2023, at 7pm. It will be the second reading I’ve been involved in that streams across two venues, and the first of such that I will be reading my own work at. The two Seattle venues are Casa del Xolo (in Fremont) and Bulldog News (in the U District). I will be tangible at the latter.
Eric Acosta compiled the media from the recent happening and it is now available for thorough review here:
I have three poems in Kyld Watkins’s latest super-limited-release feathers, which is the first part in the TimeBarn Produce series.
A Poem
The following poetry readings are happening over the next two months and are guranteed to break open the earth’s surface.
A brief announcement that there will be an “interactive happening featuring you” at Common AREA Maintenance (CAM) in Belltown, Seattle, on 2/10/23. The event will go from 6pm to 9pm. It will feature Eric Acosta, Amy Hirayama, Keegan O’Rourke, Whitney Bashaw, and myself, and will include interactive soundscapes, music, poetry, projections, and painting! See you there!
My review of Yellow Rain by Mai Der Vang is now online via International Examiner. Previously in print only, this is news!
Believe it or not, I read 112 books in 2022. Many were fantastic, but not all of them. I’ve taken my lists from past years off this site, but I’ve decided to add this list here for old time’s sake.
I have completed a 151-word review of Hugo García Manríquez’s Commonplace (Cardboard House Press, 2022) and it is now available in the current January issue of SPREAD. You can acquire this publication by emailing me or spankstra@hotmail.com.
I have occasionally written for the Washington Library Association’s Alki magazine, which tends to center exciting topics. I have a new article available in the latest issue.
My latest review is live on North of Oxford: Nicole McCarthy’s A Summoning.