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…
Poems in “the unit” form attempt to simulate or approximate the musical conversation* between instruments in a Free Jazz performance. The language, ideas, and phrases…
“Nazi Driver” is one of the first ones in which I abandoned all acrobatics meant for the page and returned my focus to sound and…
Barbara Drake writes directly form the Whitman Tradition. On this 200th anniversary of Whitman’s birth, The Road to Lilac Hill reverently binds the Whitman Tradition…