Here are a couple videos of me reading last year. In the first clip I read, as a part of the wonderful River Styx at the Tavern series, what may or may not be the title poem of the largely-theoretical third collection.
The second is me reading, along with Lawrence Hetrick, at the Poetry & BBQ, a fundraising event for the Laura Riding Jackson House in …
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Here is another recording of me reading from the new chapbook. This poem imagines Keats, after spending the night reading passages from Chapman’s translation of Homer, walking home to write his famous sonnet, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.”
Here is audio of me reading a poem from my chapbook, History Here Requires Balboa. This poem takes up an apocryphal story of Montezuma’s death at the hands of Cortez: death by molted gold down the throat. While that’s probably not how he died–many scholars think he was stoned to death by his own people after Cortez took him prisoner–the image of such an execution marries …
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When I was in college, I happened to be in an astronomy class when a partial solar eclipse took place over western Pennsylvania. The strange shadows cast during such an event stuck with me for the many years since. My poem about the event was published in The Southern Review in the fall. Here’s audio of me reading it.
In the fall, I recorded audio of two poems published in The Southern Review. Here’s one, “You Fell Forward on Both Knees.” It’s based on a nasty fall my wife took while we were walking our dog at night. Not discussed in the poem is the fact that our dogs don’t walk nicely on the leash. They pull and pull.