Field Recordings

" In undergraduate school both Martin Espada and Sam Cornish loomed large in my academic and creative life. Both men pressed upon me the importance of advocacy, and social justice. Now I don't consider myself to be a political poet per se, but my subject matter is certainly politicized. I am a writer of the poor rural south for example, and often write about marginalized people such as addicts, alcoholics, and even the gay, lesbian, transgender communities in the rural south." You can read it here.

The above image is the leading poem up on AvantAppal(achia) which features two of my poems. "Custis Field" & "White Rubber Boots" are set on ESVA, but are not "real" or "biographical" in the traditional sense. Personal note: the way this zine sets in margins is not conducive to line breaks. Something I have grown sensitive to as I gain experience working with The Broadkill Review these last seven years. Dozens of journals and zines have restrictions such as these. It's part of my personal mission as the managing editor of The Broadkill Review to preserve line breaks and form as it was intended.

Short weird fiction. I get a lil' Cthulhu here  " But then his legs cracked forward, his kneecaps breaking and crushing, bulging out. A sickening sound of bone and skin rearranging. That was when the doc fell back from the younger boy. And could you blame him? His one hand still on the black and grey thing, the other on the ground catching his fall."