I have a new risograph poem available called “Placenta.” The print is a composite of three organic placenta prints made by my doula after the birth of my child earlier this year. Email me if you’d like a print!
Risograph: Placenta
poems
new risograph broadside
new risograph broadside of my zine poem “after the amplify energy oil spill,” which you can see in zine form here.
Contact me if you’d like a copy. Requesting a couple bucks to cover shipping.
Petromedia + Zines
The new issue of Imaginations, edited by Emily Roehl & Rachel Webb Jekanowski, features two of my zine poems about oil and petro-futures. Read the whole issue here.
Poetry Society: In their own words
Thanks to Poetry Society of America for inviting me to talk about Diurne (Tupelo Press, 2019)! You can read the first poem from the collection and my reflections on its composition here.
In Diurne, I try (and often fail) to develop a method I call “impersonal intimacy,” offering to the reader different types of personal information—credit card #, address, email, as well as family histories, personal insecurities, and confessions to see what might register as expressions of lyric subjectivity and wondering which is the more intimate: my data or my desires. Or how one expresses or suppresses the other.
River Rail: Occupy Colby
I’m honored to have some new poems in the environmental offshoot of The Brooklyn Rail: The River Rail, which “brings together artists, scientists, and writers concerned with environmental issues and climate change.” Read the whole issue online here.
The issue features field notes on ice cores from a geochemist and paleoclimatologist, incredible art and interviews, as well as some ecological poetry (including mine). You can read my poems “Atomic Shade,” “The Uncene,” and “Chain Reaction” here.
Special shout out to Chris Walker, Denise Bruesewitz, and Kerill O’Neill, the co-editors of The River Rail: Occupy Colby, for inviting me to contribute to this diverse and urgent collection. And gratitude to artistic director and publisher Phong Bui for creating this space and vision.
Poems in Omniverse
Matter Monthly
Two poems up in the November issue of Matter Monthly! I call “Lines Written After Crisis” a disarticulated sonnet and “Post-“ a residual sonnet.
As if speech were a carcass / mounted upon a wall
Were your caress a revolution that could // make a tyrant fall
Editors Ruminate: On the Poetry of Exposure
” Exposure
“A vulnerability index measures exposure. In climate science, it estimates the resiliency of communities that will bear the brunt of rising temperatures and seas. In social work, it identifies who should be prioritized for services according to their health and fragility. In the financial sector, it gauges a consumer’s level of economic insecurity and stress. In all cases, to be exposed is to be subject to harm.”
Read more about the poetry of Exposure & order your copy today. (25% of all proceeds will go to a local sexual assault victims advocacy center (SAVA).
2018 Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
My poem “unfield,” which won the 2018 Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize at UC Davis, is now online at the Academy of American Poets website. This poem is also pretty representative of the concerns in my forthcoming book, Fossils in the Making.
The poem I amwriting is not a fieldin which I findor do not find myself. There is no fillingof graves with dirt, no trans-posing of blood and earth.
What Nature: a special issue by Boston Review
My poem, “Proof of Hunger” has been included Boston’s Review’s special issue, which has both print and online counterparts.
“What Nature,” as Eds. Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, and Stephania Heim explain in their introduction, includes poems that “were not written because poetry can save the Earth. They are themselves far cries: urgent calls for rethinking our place on an imperiled planet. Read more here.