Raised by books
What book from childhood shaped your art?
2026 reading in preview
Social reading apps tempt me to put off tackling slower works…
Speech! (poem)
He gave a speech about tariffs and toilets, or maybe it was about bribes and bidets.
Home schooled (poem)
Our puritan home / housed a ghost…
Demon Lover (poem)
It’s the season’s first frost tonight. / He’s never seen a more perfect you…
Wolfman (poem)
loopy on / wolfsbane / and organ / meat…
first hike near my new home (poem)
old farmhouse, long abandoned, / rotting and vine-devoured…
The Triumph of Life (poem)
When this world floats dead, / not a microbe left to twitch…
Civic Engagement (poem)
Swamp Thing rises: / the water tastes of oil and plastic…
After We’re Done (poem)
The sky will be strangely blank / without cross-hatched contrails…