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Out this week: Thirty Days: Best of the 30/30 Project. Featuring my poem "Love in Reverse"

Marie Gauthier of Tupelo Press selected one of my poems, "Love in Reverse" for Thirty Days : The best of the 30/30 Project Year One.   It's one of a few anthologies to feature my work (cue haughty accent, spotlight, espresso, and French cigarettes). Hopefully you'll be hearing more from me over the next few months as projects near completion. Thanks for the support.

The secret to #FuryRoad is good writing. Mad Max avoids pandering to the groundlings

Warning: Spoiler alert. Fury Road is buzzing. Easily one of the best action films of the decade, or the action film of the decade, critics have been ringing up its “live stunt” merits, its ingenious action sequences, and its feminist core. But what exactly makes Fury Road so effective? To put it simply, it’s the writing. Yes, film writing is only part of the success, you have to actual film what you write, right? And act it, and so forth... Fury Road is a successful Film (with a capital F) because the writers do not pander to the groundlings. George Miller, Brendan McCarthy (known for comics and TV work), and Nico Lathouris (an actor/ TV writer who had a bit part in the original Mad Max ) craft a world without Basil Exposition. If you are prone to long bathroom breaks you just might miss an image crucial to the plot. Is this a groundbreaking filmmaking technique, to let the pictures do the talking? Hardly. Just one rarely used in Hollywood. Hollywood likes to scaffold ...