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Spark for Arvo Part

I wrote a poem responding to the beautiful song “Summa” by the Estonian composer Arvo Part, and my pal Andrea Murray interviewed me about it for National Poetry Month on Portland’s All Classical....

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We’ve lived a year without him

It’s been a year since the death of Prince. I’m proud to have this poem about him, “On Loss,” in the Delaware Poetry Review.

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You want it darker?

Grateful to Boog founder David Kirschenbaum, and Portland editors Phoebe Wayne and Sarah Bartlett for featuring two of my poems in the Portland-New York edition of the Portable Boog Reader [PDF]....

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Suspended Moment in Los Alamos

I’m honored to have the chance to perform this Sunday in my hometown! SUSPENDED MOMENT SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2017 4-5:30 P.M. HISTORIC FULLER LODGE, Los Alamos, NM Join us on the anniversary of the world’s...

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On rage, leaking bodies, and understanding fire

I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed for Jacket 2 by the poet Christy Davids about my new book After We All Died. We talked about rage, leaking bodies, Taylor Swift, and understanding...

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All dead

I wrote this new poem for/from Tommy Pico and Christine Blasey Ford You wrote give but I read grieve I grieve myself to every man I meet—all man eyes on all streets, all suck and slurp and grieve means...

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Article 3

A beautiful new review of Green-Wood in the Iowa Review by Peter Myers. It’s moving to be read so closely, and so well. “We come to know the poem—like a cemetery, like nature—as a made thing, shaped by...

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Tupelo Q interview

I’m pleased and honored to have been interviewed by poet Lisa Olstein for Tupelo Quarterly about Green-Wood, along with an excerpt from the book. “The Book Made Me As I Made It”: A Micro(inter)view...

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Not flowers but bone

I’m grateful to Tracy Zeman for a lovely review of Green-Wood in Kenyon Review!

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‘A fact I wore like jewelry’

A lovely review of Green-Wood by Dan Alter over at Heavy Feather Review. 

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