Serpentine

“Sunshine permeates. Blooming permeates. Celebration permeates. Refuge permeates.”

Two EXTREMELY Different Phone Lines

Do you want poetry? Do you want bureaucracy and eroticism and also existential horror? Then boy do I have two phone lines for YOU.

Poetry for Everyone

“What ends up on the page is the least important part of the process.”

Wisdoms for Self

“to learn anew &/or to be reminded of to continue learning”

Interior Design

“And together we remember everything.”

Soup Brain

“to live among & within & through words or more vitally, caring attention—that’s the daily practice”

Welcome, baby.

Historically, there’s been an element of exhaustion or overstimulation in the work I make due to it being tied in so many respects to social media. The energy of being on Twitter or Instagram bleeds into everything from the pace of production to the pressure to reach more people. Even if I’m enjoying making the art, there’s this extra stuff that I don’t quite know what to do with.

But this book felt different.

Printer Porn

Tell the Turning went to press last week in Poland and our publisher has been sending the most delicious slew of process photos from the print house.

The Absence of Poetry

If we could just—just stop. For one year. If everybody could stop publishing their poems. No more. Stop it. Just—everyone. Every poet. Just stop. But of course that’s totally unfair to the poets who are just starting out. This may be their “wunderjahr.” This may be the year that they really find their voice. And … Continue reading The Absence of Poetry

Slowly, Slowly

It takes so few people, relatively speaking, to make this transformation possible.