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

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

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 fi...

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 wit...

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...

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

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 packag...

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 wo...