meditation in an emergency

“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous” Frank O’Hara Next month, I’ll be guiding a workshop at The Poetry Project, meditation in an emergency. I tweaked Frank O’Hara’s title because it feels especially apt, but the workshop’s got nothing to do with Frank O’Hara. It Read more

poetry reading 2/3

February 3 from 6-8 pm at 9 W. 8th Street in NYC I’m reading with CAConrad, Matvei Yankelevich, Morgan Vo, Karen Weiser, Farnoosh Fathi, Shiv Kotecha and Anselm Berrigan in association with Artfare-New York‘s inaugural exhibition. A lot of what I wrote is in response to Dustin Yellin‘s work. The Read more

being love

Being love: an experiential workshop for QTPOC “What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against Read more

January readings

Reaching the Cliffs of Moher was a visceral experience of the end of the line, the edge of the world. Beautiful and terrifying. This photo does no justice to the drama of the experience, but it illustrates an end. Ending one year, beginning the next, I’ll be starting my 2019 Read more

Brooklyn Rail reading 12/12/18

I’m looking forward to reading on Wednesday to celebrate Brooklyn Rail‘s Double Issue Release with Andrei Codrescu, Diana Hamilton, Joey De Jesus, John Coletti, Chia-Lun Chang and Anselm Berrigan who pulled the reading together. Food! Drink! Poetry! Music! Celebrate with us at Brooklyn Rail: 253 36th St. 3rd. Floor #C304 Read more

desire

There’s a trailer available to view now from the Empire performance that happened last month at TOTAH. It’s still so weird to hear my own voice recorded back, but that’s me talking at the beginning and there’s a clip of Marine reading some of my work later in the video Read more

Obsidian

A couple poems from the latest manuscript have appeared online recently in the Spring 2017 issue of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Thank you to the editors for including and sharing my work.