Category Archives: Time

“You Once Felt Gigantic”, New Ohio Review, Fall 2019, recent audio recording

Comedy, Death, doubt, Existence, Future, Humor, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Religion, Thoughts, Time, Tragedy, World, Writing

You Once Felt Gigantic

“Consoling The Whims Of The Tiniest, Whiniest Dictators”, highly-commended for the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition

Comedy, Father, Friendship, Happiness, Home, Humor, Life, Love, Marriage, Metaphor, Parenthood, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Stars, Thoughts, Time, Writing

My tiny whiny dictating children and I would like to thank Kathy Miles for selecting this poem for 10th place — obviously in honor of the greatest soccer player in the world, Lionel Messi — in the Welsh Poetry Competition. Congrats to the winner Estelle Price for her wonderful
ekphrastic poem “iii”.

http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners-2021/

“Babu Bangladesh!” by Numair Atif Choudhury

Animals, Death, doubt, Existence, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Form, Friendship, Future, Home, Humor, Inspiration, Interview, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Paradise, philosophy, Reality, Religion, Sea, Thoughts, Time, Tradition, Tragedy, Trees, Violence, War, Water, World, Writing

You should order this novel RIGHT NOW. It is BRILLIANT.

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ANumair+At+if+Choudhury

“Unwrapped”, from Fourteen Hills’ Zoom reading on May 28th, 2021

Existence, Future, Home, Life, Metaphor, philosophy, Poetry, Thoughts, Time

A huge thank you to Rachel Huefner and the rest of the editing team at Fourteen Hills (especially the poetry editors, Sen Ruiz and Trianne Harabedian) for a wonderful virtual reading last Friday for Issue 27, Summer 2021! The following is a link to my reading of “Unwrapped”, which can be heard from 33:22 to 35:30, and be sure to catch Olive Maurstad’s fantastic story “Last One” right after it 🙂

https://www.14hills.net/c131280e-3990-4a3f-8e83-a4b69f855beb

“Dear Mom”, from Paterson Literary Review’s Zoom reading on March 6th, 2021

Death, Home, Humor, Life, Parenthood, Poetry, Time, Tradition

Thank you, Ms. Mazziotti Gillan and Ms. Desai, for organizing such a wonderful reading today for Issue #48! The following is a link to my reading of “Dear Mom”, which can be heard from 1:06:10 to 1:08:00, right after “Emptyness”, by the Ghanaian poet Geosi Gyasi, and right before “Second Hand Clothes”, by fellow New Jersey poet, Fred Iucci.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48R-GDNQuU

“Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” (which first appeared in “America”) wins the Telluride Institute’s 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize

Animals, Home, Life, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Science, Thoughts, Time, Trees, Writing
2020 Fischer Prize Winners Announced!

It’s an extraordinary honor to have “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” selected as the winner of the 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize! A special thank you to judge Claire Blotter and the Talking Gourds crew for making my 2020 a little less horrible, and congrats to all the other finalists!