Not gonna lie, these plague times have thrown me (and my writing) for a real loop. Besides all the terror and dread, April is typically...

Lately I've been getting more and more interested in writing essays, journalism, and nonfiction in general. An excerpt of my...

Extremely grateful to have been awarded a James Merrill Fellowship to attend the Vermont Studio Center in 2020. I've been applying for...

This summer's tour culminated with two weeks in Vermont, for my second appearance at the Bookstock literary festival (along with some of...

This Spring, a few magazines are publishing my work, so here's a roundup of recent and forthcoming publications: Powder Keg Magazine's...

In lieu of an extremely tardy Part 2 in this blog series about my 2018 tour, here's the unexpurgated version of my rambling interview...

This summer, I spent 3 months on the road, touring to 11 cities in 5 countries in 2 hemispheres. The first leg took me up the East coast...

Last summer, while I was working in Washington Square Park in NYC, a woman with a German accent asked for, "Just a short poem, please." A...

While on the road in Europe/USA this summer I've taken to using Instagram to tell stories and post photos and poems, almost daily. Follow...

I've been dreadful at blogging regularly...so for now here's an unexpurgated version of an interview I did with Nyles Pierrelouis, which...

In the Ayuntamiento offices she spells my name into the phone with the call letters of cities and nations. “Aleshire: Almería, Lugo,...

For the first time, one of my poems was returned to me. Today in the mail, a big brown package arrives, plastered with stamps. Any...

photo by Robbie Quinn Photography A fallen-angel of academe who's crawling back up the ivory tower on his hands and knees, last year I...