Recently published poems:
Metphrastics (an online magazine of ekphrastic writing inspired by work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"Memento Mori" after dress by Alexander McQueen
Poets for Science
"Virga, as Rapunzel Shorn, Over Wuptaki"
(inspired by an exhibition of photography by Stephen Bridgehouse at The HeArt Box Gallery)
Unleash Lit
"Orizuru (The Crane)" after Miki Hayakawa's "Portrait of a Young Man," 1939
and
"Queer Antonietta" after Lavinia Montana's "Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez," 1595
The Winged Moon Literary Magazine
"The Stone Whales"
Hydration (print)
(poetry feature)
"so the cottonwoods sing"
"Canyoned"
"Hard Place"
Other published work includes a post for the Brevity Blog on re-booting an overheated brain with surrealist art; an essay on finding truth while learning the Satyas and to play pickleball, published in Bridge Eight, an essay on hiking at the former town dump in Thin Air, and an ekphrastic poem inspired by Harriet Bart's installation at NewStudio Gallery (where I've worked as gallery director) published in The Ekphrastic Review.
Pictured below is my presentation on ekphrastic collaboration with ceramicist and installation artist Rebecca Carlton, with whom I was was paired as the recipient of the 2023 Scuglik Memorial Residency in ekphrastic writing at Write On, Door County, in Wisconsin.
Metphrastics (an online magazine of ekphrastic writing inspired by work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
"Memento Mori" after dress by Alexander McQueen
Poets for Science
"Virga, as Rapunzel Shorn, Over Wuptaki"
(inspired by an exhibition of photography by Stephen Bridgehouse at The HeArt Box Gallery)
Unleash Lit
"Orizuru (The Crane)" after Miki Hayakawa's "Portrait of a Young Man," 1939
and
"Queer Antonietta" after Lavinia Montana's "Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez," 1595
The Winged Moon Literary Magazine
"The Stone Whales"
Hydration (print)
(poetry feature)
"so the cottonwoods sing"
"Canyoned"
"Hard Place"
Other published work includes a post for the Brevity Blog on re-booting an overheated brain with surrealist art; an essay on finding truth while learning the Satyas and to play pickleball, published in Bridge Eight, an essay on hiking at the former town dump in Thin Air, and an ekphrastic poem inspired by Harriet Bart's installation at NewStudio Gallery (where I've worked as gallery director) published in The Ekphrastic Review.
Pictured below is my presentation on ekphrastic collaboration with ceramicist and installation artist Rebecca Carlton, with whom I was was paired as the recipient of the 2023 Scuglik Memorial Residency in ekphrastic writing at Write On, Door County, in Wisconsin.