Category Archives: Readings

Song & Glass Release Party - Saturday March 20, 7:00 PM

On Saturday March 20 at 7:00 PM, I hope you will come to celebrate the release of my book, Song & Glass at Brick Bat Books. I’ll be joined by Jason Ajemian & members of the High Life before they head out on tour in support of their new album, Let Me Get That Digital. Jason is primarily [...]

The Mouth is to Feed - Poems for Juliette

In my post for February 5 I described Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s book release party for That Gorgeous Feeling where several poets read occasional poems for the event. After the event I wanted to post those poems because they were really great textured pieces of work. I posted my poem right away because it was immediate, [...]

April 11: Dinh, Mir, Yearous-Algozin @ Chapterhouse

This Saturday, April 11, I will be reading with Linh Dinh and Joey Yearous-Algozin (bios below) at The Chapterhouse Cafe in the Bella Vista section of Philly. The series is presently hosted by Ryan Eckes. I admire Linh’s and Joey’s work a great deal, so I hope that you will come out to hear the [...]

Over Here Steve Dolph Wrestles Armed Commandos

A couple Sundays ago at L’Etage in the Bella Vista section of Philly, Frank Sherlock had a book party for the release of his first full-length collection, Over Here, published by Factory School, which is one of the true standout presses today. Caroline said, after the reading had finished, that “Frank was like a rock [...]

A Crush of Consonants and Open Vowels for Juliette

The crush of consonants
in Tom Daschle & the open
vowels of John Yau have
got me thinking of Mary Ann
Caws who says “Poetry can be
any damn thing it wants”
The treaty of 1868
We are not alone in a room
Being alone is anarchy
I’m certain the mice are
in the ceiling
A bomb instead of a drawing
It snowed last night
The sun today [...]