Chapbooks
Recently released by the New Michigan Press, Stand Back Don't Fear the Change is
forty-six pages of parable-poem-story-lament-predictions, something that Dave
Bonta called "a mash-up of the Zhuangzi, Charles Simic, & Idries Shah." Parables
from the collection have already appeared in Best Small Fictions 2017, in Sou'wester,
and at Queen Mob's Teahouse, where you can read "Parable of Lockdown." NMP
has made two more pieces, "Parable of the Greatcoat" and "Parable of Temporary
Lodging," available online as well. The cover art is called "Monkey Gaze," and was
created by Vincent Chong , a printmaker, painter, calligrapher and seal carver who
also wrote the characters that appear on the cover of Neither Nearing Nor
Departing, below. You can order the collection by clicking on the cover image or
find New Michigan's online store here.
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Neither Nearing Nor Departing was the winner of the 2016 chapbook prize from Two of Cups Press. It works through concepts from classical Chinese to ask questions about family, imagination, and loss. A poem from it appears in my essay "Errata."
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Watching Lumia was published in 2013 by Winged City Press; its print run has sold out and is now only available as an ebook. It is a single long poem written over the course of thirty hours spent in front of a single piece of light art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was reviewed here.
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The Experiment in Morbidity was published in 2013 by Grey Book Press. Half-comic, half-tragic, it begins with a series of dreams about an ominous white van and ends with a questionnaire for readers to detach and return.
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Selected Work
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"Helpmate," in the Boston Review
"Police Report, November 25, 2007" in Blackbird "Can Send Not Recieve" in Asian Cha |
"Forensics" in DIAGRAM
An interview with The Chapbook Interview, 2017 "Noteworthy Poet" portfolio at the UCity Review |