Links to selected works, sorted

I write about a lot of things, obviously, but I do tend to write about three things: my experience with gender identity, climate change/rural life intersection, & my experience with addiction & recovery.

Work about gender dysphoria and its intersections: dysphoria, body/mind disassociation. Sometimes the poems are directly about me, sometimes projected onto other people:

"Queer, the woods," River Mouth Review

"Boy in Disintegration Loop" Great River Review

"Correcting/My Walk" Great River Review

"Tiresias Comes Over For Tea" Gargoyle

"I Channel the Field in Autumn" Wraparound South

"Punks Get Up to Get Beat Down" Feral

"Privacy in a Small Town" The Citron Review

"Song of the Wild They", "Play Dress Up" Dreamstreets

"Maxine Who Was Once Max" Image/Out

All My Rowdy Friends (trigger warning: instances of my internalized transphobia, self-hating cognitive patterns, addiction, trauma, but also some acceptance, some hope, some joy)

"Old Man in a Blouse At Market" The Good Men Project

"The Success of Captain Whitaker's Dress" The Good Men Project

The Girl Notebooks The Coe Review

"Terry at the River" Red Hills Review

"The Grl Notebooks" TQ Quarterly

Fiction

Mulch, forthcoming from Montag Press (the main motif throughout the novel is that one does not have control over one's body)

"I, Tiresias" Common Oddities Sideshow

Poems about addiction/recovery--mostly my experience re-mixed as something else:

"The Phalaropes, the Drink, and Me" BODY

"A Few Lines for Stephen K Who Died Sober"

"Portrait of a Marriage with Twin Peaks and Forest" These Poems Are Not What They Seem

"Surrender" New Plains Review

All My Rowdy Friends (trigger warning: internalized transphobia, self-hating cognitive patterns, addiction, trauma)

"Christy. To Her Sponsor. June 11" Typehouse

Poems about climate change:

"Lawnmower" "Lark Pastures Outside of Town" River Heron Review

"Peregrin Falcon in a Disintegration Loop" "Stellar's Jay in Teller's Bay" Sinking City Review

"Ring-Billed Gulls By the Chesapeake" Wraparound South

"Poor Yuck Mouth" Fourteen Hills

"Incantation Against Burning Rainforests" Poets Reading the News

"Catwife in Spring Rain Flash Flood Warning" The Shore

"Children Love the Dump" Oxford Poetry

Fiction--eco-dystopian

"How the Dun-in Man Got His Name" Helios Quarterly

"The Futility of Marsh Intelligence" Lethal Impact

Summer Poetry Reading in Rehoboth

If anyone's interested in a mid-summer run to Rehoboth's outlet malls, consider Tuesday, July 27th, and stop by the Rehoboth Beach Librar y for the summer poetry series. Besides moi, Denise Clemmons, poet and food critic for the Cape Gazette, and Sherry Chapplle, poet and professor. Excellent company. Books will be for sale afterwards. It's a quality series, and full of surprises. Garry Hanna has done a bang-up job organizing the summer series. Bring a few quarters to ward off the meter maid. Reading starts at 7:00 PM.

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.

Vittorio Carli's work is punk rock #poetry

A Passion for Apathy: The Collected and Rejected Poems of Vittorio Carl i, a small press gem of punk rock poetry, carries poetic traditions in its teeth. Punk rock because of the in-your-face-anti-establishment irony and earnestness in Carli's presentation of his verse, traditional in the homage and muse tradition of poetry. He writes to and for those and that which enlarges his voice. Carli's work reads like a cross between cultural commentary/homage to persons as varied as Lawrence Welk to Woody Allen, to snapshots of socio-political unrest, which are flags of protest. My favorite is the “The Trouble with Librarians (for Andrea)” where Librarians are cast as the progenitors of closed information; they are “all closed books/with a couple of pages missing.” He's a poet, and I imagine him in some stacked room typing madly, or in transit, to and fro Chicago, scribbling on the back of brown paper bags. He works it. He's out there living poetry. Proof. My copy of t...

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