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...
The literature involving fathers and daughters runs to nearly one thousand titles. I Googled. The Tempest. King Lear. Emma. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Washington Square. Daughters have a power over fathers, who are usually...
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