I’ve been thinking about David Berman’s suicide lately as I pick up, wobbly, his song “Nights That Won’t Happen,” in which he is thinking about it. I suspect because there’s a lot of reason for despair right now, and I’m coming to term with that… Read More
The Cleveland Review of Books published an online version of my poem, “Breath Gradients, Block by Block” on election day. Bittersweet is an understatement.
I couldn’t ask for a better remediation of my reading of “Fugue 184 | Ekpyrosis” at Silo City (below). Flatsitter orchestrated the video. Using music by Lizzi Bougatsos (I think). Noah Falck planned the event and, along with so many other people, did the work of making it happen. Also, Robin Jordan’s enthusiastic collage response helped give me the guts to end my set with this poem that sprawls.
JOE HALL 