In Order to Form a More Perfect Union: The Movie Prequel
Prologue You may or may not be aware that I wrote a book of poems and that the fine folks at Black Lawrence Press have seen fit to put a couple of covers on it and help me hawk it to the world. It’s...
View ArticleFYI/411: The earth is not round | But heart-shaped and broken
Here’s a poem from my upcoming collection. (Of poems, I mean. But you knew that.) A Secret Interlude Regarding Not-So-Secret Secrets. Or Something. [This is just one of twelve other curses in the...
View ArticleFYI/411: Social Media Dilettante Strikes Again.
Here’s a poem from my upcoming collection. (Of poems, I mean. But you knew that.) A Secret Interlude Regarding Not-So-Secret Secrets. Or Something. [This is just one of twelve other curses in the...
View ArticleMisfit Pilgrimage: NYC. 2012. [Misfit Mourning.]
30 Things. NYC. 2012. The Finish Line: [06.30.12...THE MORNING AFTER. ETC.] …A good night’s sleep. O sleep! (O wait…) …The thing Guru Glen said. About signs. About how you go with your heart most of...
View ArticleMisfit Pilgrimage: NYC. 2012. [The 8 Millions.]
30 Things. NYC. 2012. The Running List Continues: [06.29.12...CIRCA MID AFTERNOON.] …The very freckled woman walking west on (near?) Central Park South… …The way NYC sticks to your shoe… …The way life...
View ArticleMisfit Pilgrimage: NYC. 2012. ["My name? My name is Nino!"]
30 Things. NYC. 2012. The Running List Begins: [06.29.12...CIRCA EARLY AFTERNOON.] …#[?]. National treasures (i.e., NYC)… …#[?]. Cockamamie schemes… …This thought: living in NYC seems (to me) either...
View ArticleFYI/411: [PDX + YouTube] x Poem = Not-So-Shameless Plug!
This is the digital age. Which means it’s that much easier for a dilettante such as myself to marry sound — some ambient, some, uh, the opposite of ambient (?) — with some moving pictures, voice-over...
View ArticleMagic City Cave Paintings
Enough of this throat-singing already! If you want to sing two notes at once why don’t you do like everyone else and get a multi-track machine, lay ‘em down separately, make a little harmony. Maybe a...
View ArticleDon’t Wanna Live in My Father’s House No More
I don’t wanna hear the noises on TV. (MTV, what have you done to me?) – Arcade Fire, “Windowsill”
View ArticleMisfit Pilgrimage (PDX): A Foodcart Is Born
THE THING ABOUT FOODCARTS IN PORTLAND, OREGON I mean. I don’t know what the thing about foodcarts is, generally speaking. A foodcart is a foodcart is a foodcart, right? But it turns out not really. If...
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