three years with forrest today. and so here is e.e. cummings.

since feeling is first

who pays attention

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

my blood approves

and kisses are a better fate

than wisdom

i swear by all flowers. Don't cry

- the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelid's flutter which says

we are for each other: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

And death I think is no parenthesis.

I would like to write a short story that looks and feels like this Animal Collective video.

Ashely Farmer reviews my story "The Grand Canyon Brings People Together" on the >kill author blog here.

I review B.N. Landry’s story “Free Architecture” for the >kill author blog here.

Guess Who?

Inspired by Amy Pohler's description of midwesterners on NPR this morning (warm windy broad-shouldered passive agressive), Tess and I try to define people in different parts of the country via adjectives via twitter.

Look Don't Touch

My favorite tattoo I have ever seen was on a Swedish guy in Valparaiso, Chile and it just said: LOOK AT THE MOUNTAINS in big block letters. I made this poster about that tattoo. I also made it because I miss looking at the mountains every morning instead of looking at this screen.

yeah.

from Michael Crowe's rad website.

For Kids, By Kids

My friend Matthew L. Roher is celebrating the release of his new chapbook "Probability of Dependent Events" (Beard of Bees Press) with a series of readings. I will be reading with Matt and many other amazing kids this Sunday at 7 at Onyx in Greenpoint. The reading will be by kids, for kids, about kids. Come, kids!

Road Trip Love Song

This song feels like what love feels like.

The Grand Canyon Brings People Together

So excited to have a story in issue 15 of >kill author. Alongside some of my favorite writers, to boot!

Guess I'm back on the internet again, for better or worse...