Publications & Readings

Publications

Pendemic: I’d Go Straight for You, Adrienne Barbeau

The Holy Male: Weather Report (nonfiction)

Impossible Archetype: EVP (poetry, 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee)

Chelsea Station: Metastasis (poetry)

If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration (Sibling Rivalry Press): Pirate Jenny (poetry)

Clockhouse: Grant Town, West Virginia: July 4, 2000 (poetry)

Not Just Another Pretty Face (Beautiful Dreamer Press): Summer: A History (nonfiction)

The James Franco Review: Dukes Mound (nonfiction)

HIV Here & Now Project: September Song (poetry)

PANK: The Boys at the Warhol Museum | Ransom Note for the Unlovely | Rust Belt Gay Bar (poetry)

Assaracus: Indulgence | Carnival Love | Aubade for a Closet Case | Requiem for a Jock | Levitation | Crotch Shot | The Face of God in Johnny Weir’s Ass | Two Edinburgh Songs | Varieties of Autumn Light | The Warrior Is Learning How to Fight (poetry)

Readings

Red Dog Reading Series: LGBTQ Night | November 2018 | Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA

Smoke & Mirrors: Penn OUT Loud Art Crawl | June 2017 | Pittsburgh Equality Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Not Just Another Pretty Face | July 2016| Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, Allentown, PA

Not Just Another Pretty Face | June 2016 | Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, ON

Image to Word | February 2015 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Reflecting on RACE | September 2014. | Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA

[PANK] Invasion, with Braddock Avenue Books | January 2014 | Wigle Whiskey Distillery, Pittsburgh, PA

Workshops Taught

Words & Images: Creative Writing & Instagram  |  Instagram offers a way to combine words and images into a new kind of creative experience: think beyond Instapoetry…. We’ll explore some of the different ways creative writers use this unique platform, and talk approaches and tools for creating a successful and engaging account. Bring along your ideas and smartphone. No prior writing experience is required. Please note: this session focuses on Instagram as a creative (rather than a marketing) platform. The focus is on creative writing and image-making. 

Blackouts & Cutups  | Sources for poetry are all around us: newspaper articles, scientific and law journals, junk mail, comments sections…. In Blackouts & Cutups, we explore two forms of found poetry: erasures and centos. Erasures (or blackouts) take existing text and redact, overlay, or obscure it to create new work. Centos (Latin for “patchwork”) are collage poems made up of phrases or lines taken from other sources. No prior writing experience required: amateurs and beginners welcome!  

Playing with Poetry Forms  |  You might know your sonnets from sestinas, but did you know there’s a poetry form based on the Fibonacci sequence? Ever heard of a lune? Experiment with new and old forms of poetry in this beginner’s workshop that focuses on ways in which writing in form can help to free your creativity! No prior writing experience required: amateurs and beginners welcome!  

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