“All Over Again” was written about three months after my father passed. I was visiting a friend in Mississippi on a property that contained an…
The earliest version of “Deliverance as Anchor” was written on 12/28/18, when I was attempting a poem every day after joining a group of writers…
Who is the betrayer? Who abandoned whom? Who no longer recognizes whom? Over the years, these questions have surfaced again and again in my writing…
I’m thinking of how images outlast images. I was in a room; a man beside me was sketching birds. I pretended to be looking at…
I know we wrote the poem “What We Write about When We Don’t Write about the Pandemic” in May of 2020 because I booked an…
Marc Vincenz is a poet-philosopher whose creative practice interrogates consciousness and panpsychism. His poetry makes use of associative techniques that join disparate concepts and challenge…
One theme I continue to revisit in my poetry is the way in which masculinity, or toxic masculinity, is learned and expressed through behaviors that…
I am giving you a version. By which I mean I mask and I mask and I mask and I mask. I tell myself: wake…
The occasion for “The God Machine” was a ringing in my office.
Usually I write with an image or phrase guiding me until I find the poem’s shape based on the discovery I make (structure as a…