Rereading Alicia Ostriker’s Stealing The Language
I could not have articulated it this way back then, but I felt straitjacketed by much of the male poetic tradition in which I was being educated and in which I understood I would be expected to write
Like Domestic Violence, Antisemitism Has Also Been A Thread Running Through My Life
“We’re building an oven in my basement,” the ringleader smiled. “When it’s finished, remember, we know where you live,”
Towards a Discussion of Male Self-Hatred
The internal logic of this value system, in other words, is less about protecting my sister than it is about protecting my claim to status within the male hierarchy that is a central part of patriarchy’s infrastructure.
Domestic Violence Has Been A Thread Running Through My Life
I am sure that every man reading this recognizes the ethic out of which that threat emerges. Not only had I violated another man’s “territory;” I had done so in a way that explicitly questioned his sovereignty within those boundaries.
On My Desk Now: Junot Díaz and the Double Bind of Male Survivorship
I had hoped in writing my essay to be able to note this complexity and then set it aside, not because I think it’s not important, but because it seemed to me [that it] silenced Díaz as a survivor, short-circuiting the larger discussion about male survivors that his essay might have started.
Bodies As Bodies: Fetal Personhood and The Politics of Reproductive Autonomy
Dear Friends,
Happy New Year! I hope your holiday season was filled with joy and meaning, and I hope that
The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma
—Based on a talk I gave on a panel in 2017 at the Western Maryland Independent Literary Festival
September 13, 2025 - How Writing Poetry Helped Me Come To Terms With What The Men Who Violated Me Did To Me When I Was A Boy
A Reading & Discussion at the Jackson Heights Public Library
Date: Saturday, September 13
Time: 2:30-3:30
Where:
Three Poems Of Mine That Should Never Again Have Become As Relevant As They Are Now
When I first shared these poems with you in June 2022—two from The Silence of Men and one from
