Black Friday

During his time living in Philadelphia, Carlos Soto-Roman & I collaborated on a number of projects. One of my favorites is a translation of Black Friday, by Chilean poet Jose Angel Cuevas.

ixnay press features the poem here.

Philadelphia Review of Books & Space Between

"Lines? Who writes them? City planners. Poets. Is a poem a city? Who may walk in it and where and how?" John Ebersole writes about Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated here.

It's Time at Academy of American Poets

"A few years ago, I was involved in an accident that impacted my memory in troubling yet interesting ways. It's Time is a project that explores the subjectivity of time, memory, and the wider implications of how the momentary is perceived."

Read an excerpt here.

It's Time in The Brooklyn Rail

Thanks to John Ebersole for including me in the November issue of the Brooklyn Rail. You can also find work from fellow Philadelphians Ryan Eckes, Jenn McCreary, Natalie Lyalin and Carlos Soto-Roman. Check out excerpts from It's Time here.

Little Sensation at Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Pew Fellow Poetry: Frank Sherlock from Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on Vimeo.

Space Between These Line Not Dedicated Now Available

Space Between These Lines Not Dedicated is now available from SPD. You can find it here.

Poet-genius Fred Moten says:

"Beginning in a thin line of short lines held broken by indentations, holding us something like together in this common indenture, wading through what we don't want to be—'Ah this / sunrise / again on / a failed / paradigm'—waiting for some other thing, something more like together, SPACE BETWEEN THESE LINES NOT DEDICATED consecrates the little openings within which we prepare. This openness is given in our woundedness, where form arises, or spreads in periodic broadening, flipping the bird to the law it makes, because it can feel good in its own broken skin. I think I understand what Frank is saying: We are the form! We are the form of love! We wait for one another as the form of love! Frank Sherlock is a great poet and this is a great book."

California Love

(Suyeun Juliette Lee, Emily Abendroth, Frank Sherlock & Jenn McCreary- photo by Kevin Killian)

Thanks so much to everyone who made the Golden State tour a memorable one. Special shout-outs for Steve Dickison, David Buuck, Marianne Morris, Emji Spiro, Kevin Killian, Samantha Giles & the whole Bay Area crew. Big ups to LA, especially Emerson Whitney, Fred Moten, Andrew Maxwell, Joseph Mosconi & Poetic Research Bureau. I can't wait to come back.