Whenever I’m working on a major project I usually find that some other piece of art sticks in my craw while I’m working on it, serving as a sort of guide. Usually it’s a musical album, and since most of my projects involve language, the guidance doesn’t directly correlate on the level of instruction so much as attitude or philosophy. When I was ( Read more... )

Last night I released a chapbook of poems digitally online, entitled Last One Given. It is notable less for its free price tag and more for the time in which it took me to write the work therein: two days. (The book lists it as three days but that's a technicality of time more than effort ( Read more... )

I released a new book of poems centered around an autumn theme entitled "Autumn" today.
It's available online for free download right now.

Enjoy!

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I received this question this morning from Siaara. Once I ascertained that "best" meant "favorite of mine" I was better able to answer the question.

Here's my top 8. Since the list is short, I went ahead and ranked it too. My #1 isn't necessarily the best book on this list, but it is my favorite. It also bears noting that the books aren't all ( Read more... )

Someone tried to pull my librarian card today and I had to cut 'em.

I was deriding street lit for the 3,237th time in my adult life when the person I was talking to said, "You have to admit: the stuff is engaging. I bet you can't name five books as engaging as a street lit novel by a black author that aren't street lit novels."

Now, I love lists. And ( Read more... )

*Surprise*
At last night's show I released my new chapbook, "The Livingston Avenue Suite".
It's the entire 12-page "epic" poem first performed at this year's 24-hour poetry feature condensed in book form.
This will have an extremely limited run.

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I bought the new Stephen King - Full Dark, No Stars - and the Mark Twain autobiography.  I am a happy man.

The King I've read about half of.  It's a novella 4-piece and I have to say it's not bad.  It is mostly his bread-and-butter working overtime: everyday people caught in extraordinary circumstances, though the circumstances are far less ( Read more... )

I had a great first day: two days worth of words in one. They say go big early so it's not as hard later on when it gets rough, and they're right. I feel like a king now.

(Please remember this in a week or so when I'm feeling like a serf being dragged through the village square by the king's men for not paying taxes.)

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