Otho

Hey class, I mean people who read this blog.  Another poem from EMPIRE was published by the web site Zocalo Public Square.  There will be another poem that comes out on this site, not sure when, but here's the first one.  Otho

Reading on Saturday

Hey Royal Family,

I'm reading saturday for this ridiculous reading series that may or may not coincide with the full moon.
The drinks are three dollars. I know three dollar drinks don't really impress many people outside new york but it impresses everyone in New York.

Please come! <3 <3 <3

POETS: Nicole Wallace, Rangi McNeil, Amy Lawless, Danniel Schoonebeek. Chapbooks available at reading <> Address: 2 Kingsland Avenue, Garden Level, Brooklyn, NY 11211 OUTDOOR EVENT: Courtyard of Art@Renaissance! (Enter gate on Maspeth Ave. past main entrance) Nicole Wallace is the Program Assistant at The Poetry Project and the author of WHITE FLOWERS, a loose-leaf multimedia chapbook in an envelope. She also co-edits BRAWLING PIGEON, which appears occasionally. Rangi McNeil earned a BA in history from Rice University & his MFA in poetry writing from Columbia University. His first collection, The Missing, was published by The Sheep Meadow Press in 2003. McNeil was born in North Carolina; he lives in Brooklyn. Amy Lawless is the author of Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008), and the chapbook Elephants in Mourning ([sic] Press, 2012). She was named a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. Some poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in the Pen Poetry Series, Gesture, Heavy Feather, H_NGM_N, and Zócalo Public Square. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. Danniel Schoonebeek's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review, Drunken Boat, La Petite Zine, The Awl, and elsewhere. He was born in the Catskills and hosts the Hatchet Job reading series in Brooklyn.

H_NGM_N

Wow this issue of H_NGM_N is incredible.   Lots of cool poems, interviews and essays.  I hope you read the whole thing.  I have 2 poems in it from a series based on photographs.  Read them here.

April moves on like this

So two poems from a series of called "One Way to Write a Sonnet Is to Number the Lines" were published by Lyre Lyre, a cool journal! Check it here. These poems are, I guess, warped translations of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Also I've got two awesome readings coming up:

April 24, for the Mental Marginalia series.

May 5 for the Highwaymen Series. This reading will be outside and it's a Saturday and only a few blocks from my house.

Poems on the Pen American blog

Three poems from my manuscript Empire are on the Pen American blog. It was exciting to be featured!

Read them here.

Empire takes each title from the name of a Roman Emperor. The content of each poem is conjured from a combination of research on Roman Emperors, their loves and deaths, and whatever. They are certainly not to be read as poems "about Roman Emperors" as that would result in an F in a history class. Though the Titus poem seems pretty faithful. (Pictured: the old white heads of Valerian, Titus, and Vespasian)