Lately I've been getting more and more interested in writing essays, journalism, and nonfiction in general. An excerpt of my novel-in-progress (in essay form...

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

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

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

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 with Robert Greer at Lo...

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 of the U.S. with a m...

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 few months later sh...

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

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 package plastered with sta...

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 won a poetry prize fro...