Poet Laureate of Philadelphia

I'm humbled by having the great honor to serve as the new Poet Laureate of Philadelphia 2014-15. Thanks much to Mayor Nutter, the Selection Committee, & the people of this city for being you.

There's some video from the press conference here.


* photo by Heather Raquel Phillips

Very Different Animals in NYT Arts Beat

Who knew I'd be mentioned in the New York Times Arts Beat with John Ashberry, Adrienne Rich, James Dickey and Daniil Kharms? I love almost all of those poets! A big shout-out also goes to Nicole Donnelly who painted the incredible covers/canvasses.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/a-years-worth-of-verse-at-poets-house/

Pew Fellowship for Literature

I'm honored to be selected as a Pew Fellow in the Arts for 2013. Recipients this year also include Karen M’Closkey & Keith VanDerSys (design), Jenn McCreary (literature), J. Louise Makary (media), Kinan Abou-Afach (music), Sueyeun Juliette Lee (literature), Hafez Javier Kotain (music), Paul Swenbeck (visual arts), Toshi Makihara (music), Raphael Xavier (dance), Emily Abendroth (lierature) and Bhob Rainey (music).

with tomorrow's sun

Enter the ICA for a historical unfolding of the cultural capital of glitter, a surfacing of shimmering abandon at times of political and economic precariousness. The festivities will begin at 6pm with a site-specific performance in ICA's Project Space by artist Field Kallop: and upon each stood a siren, borne around in its revolution (2013). The performance will be followed by a talk on the exhibition Glitter and Folds by 2011-2013 Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow Jennifer Burris in ICA's auditorium. Philadelphia poet Frank Sherlock —author of Over Here (2009) and The City Real & Imagined (with CAConrad, 2010)—will conclude the evening with a reading of his utopian verse.

Very Different Animals from Fact-Simile Editions

Very Different Animals is in the world, brand new from Fact-Simile Press. The design of this book-as-object is the brainchild of publishers JenMarie & Travis Macdonald. The limited-run of 100 features a one-of-a-kind painting/cover on each copy from Nicole Donnelly.

This place

so foreign

it must be home

hints at a room

beyond this

                                                                                             

Visit Fact-Simile Editions for a holiday pre-sale discount here.

Very Different Animals is a winner of the 2011 Equinox Chapbook Competition.This accordion-fold book is set in VTKS Animal 2 and Big Caslon and mounted in Blick Studio mini canvasses. It is printed in an edition of 100 on reclaimed 120 gsm Arches Text Wove.

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New work for your reading pleasure, brought to you by the good folks at Joyland Poetry.

Joyland is here. 


 photo by Zoe Strauss

Poems As Part of the Meal

 
Thanks to Michael S.Hennessey for recording recent work inspired by the American Fall & the summer yet to come. Michael brought his field recorder to a delicious dinner created by chef CAConrad. We brought the poems for dessert.

You can hear Great Meetings in History here.
Listen to Love Letter November 15 here.