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
Learning To Love The Questions: What Would Literature Be Missing Without You?
[I]f I had never written, if not a single word of mine had ever been published, literature would not be missing a thing.
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
Learning To Love The Questions: Poetry Versus Propaganda
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
—Audre Lorde, “Power”
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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:
Publication News and Some Thoughts on Patience and Process
Dear Friends,
I am very excited to share with you that an essay it took me nearly thirty years to
