Finally got around to doing an all-new feature.
It wasn't possible back when I was a part of that great weekly open mic series with Jack and ( Read more... )

One of my poems (The Geometry Of Truth) is in the current issue of New York Quarterly


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Let the record show that I clearly prefer the format here in livejournal land

but there seems to be so much more activity and interaction over on facebook, nowadays.

So that's where I usually end up (feel free to add me over there, if I haven't already found you).

I still like having a place where I can make posts that aren't confined to twitter-sized ( Read more... )

At this month's Glendale Community College reading, I read several poems
from Beth Ann Fennelly's 2008 book, "Unmentionables."


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It didn't rain.
In fact, it was a beautiful desert night.

Patrick Hare's hosting skills.

Getting sent to the principal's office for chit-chatting with Cat Klotsche.
We thought we were being quiet enough.

Bill Campana's rendition of When Love Met Love.
He read this in the first round and it was the poem of the night for me, so it was all downhill from ( Read more... )

I sent in a handful of poems to the Tucson Poetry Festival and just heard

that I was awarded Third Place for this year's Will Inman Award.

Here is a video of my series of costume poems.  I originally wrote these
for a Halloween reading, but this video is from the recent show at the Puppet Theater.

I was hoping to make little poet puppets to go along with each poem, but I just didn't have the time.

So here are my imitations of local poets from different scenes around the valley.

David ( Read more... )

I wanted to kick off my first feature reading of 2010 with a bunch of brand new pieces. A few of the other pieces have only bed read once before, so all in all it was pretty fresh.

-first set-

Irreversible
Damned Superstitions
yet-to-be-titled Jazz conversation piece                        (NEW)
Approaching The Intersection ( Read more... )

I didn't want that video from the Poe Show to be the only film clip of me
floating around the interwebz, so I thought I would upload a few others, every once in awhile.

In honor of Sarah Palin's addition to Fox, here is one from when I featured out at the Mesa Slam last year.

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On a side note, I posted that poem on my myspace blog, sometime last year. ( Read more... )

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Neil posted a bootleg video of one of the pieces that I performed at this year's 9th Annual Poe Show.

I will also paste the text, under the cut.

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