Hi! My name is Richard Jeffrey Newman. CavanKerry Press published my first book of poems, The Silence of Men, more than 10 years ago, but I still make a point of reading from it, two poems in particular: “The Taste of a Little Boy’s...
From page 49: “Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful…Our very being exposes us to the address of others, she answers. We suffer from the condition of being...
This talk was the second time during the 30 years I’ve been teaching at Nassau Community College that I spoke publicly about being a survivor of childhood sexual violence. The first time, I spoke out as a professor in order to...
On February 27th, at the invitation of 1in6, an organization that advocates for male-identified survivors of sexual violence, I attended the Oprah Winfrey screening of Leaving Neverland, the documentary in...
Definitive proof, just in case you needed it, that poets are in it for the money—which, I hasten to add, takes away not a single iota of my gratitude to CavanKerry Press for keeping my book alive 13 years after it was published. I have...
Last summer, The Nation published a poem called “How-To,” by white poet Anders Carlson-Wee, in which the speaker, a homeless person who speaks African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which is also sometimes called Black...
When I first started blogging about 15 years ago, I had not kept a journal—something I’d done with great consistency when I was younger—for a very long time. An integral part of my practice as a young poet, journal writing provided a...
I first learned out about Micro.blog when I started poking around after reading @brentsimmons’ account of how NetNewsWire “came home to him.” I read two posts that he wrote about Micro.blog, and I was immediately intrigued. I’ve had my...
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