Recurrences in these poems of memory, of receding characters, of artful surfaces of pain are finely wrought, with an intensity of tone and energy that belies a humor characterized by self-effacing feints. They feed into revelations one only finds in poetry. Text and body wreck each other, and that relationship is the jump off point for the rich imagination herein, an antidote, perhaps, for the metal cholesterol in our nation’s 6-lane arteries?” –– Anselm Berrigan


The Bible of Animal Feet was my first book of poetry, published in May 2005 by Farfalla, Mcmillan and Parrish. It was a small run that sold out quickly and is now out of print. It was a heartbreaking, rewarding, elucidating, and bizarre experience.

Soon after getting my masters degree in poetics, I basically abandoned poetry. I spent a week in seclusion in a remote alpine cabin, writing and refining a manuscript, but I came away with more questions than answers. At some point I took a poem based on a dream and turned it into a short story. I then turned that short story into a longer short story, and then it became a novel.


I haven't looked back since and now the novel, The Ishmael Blade, is in its second draft and making the rounds in the publishing/literary agent world. I'm looking for an agent, so if you are one or know one or are related to one who likes stories about exiles, outcasts, and jaded, cynical 20-somethings stumbling their way through the vagaries of hypertechnoligical post-modernism... please contact me.


This past winter I crafted another manuscript for a novel, Pogue, over the course of two months. It's sidelined for now, but I'll resume it when the time is right. I've also got a screenplay and a number of smaller projects in the works, including The Life of Towns.


Poetry, however, is not on the horizon for me at this point in my life. I'll come back to poetry, I think, but my relationship with it has changed dramatically. I have always hesitated to refer to myself as a "poet" and cringe when others do. It's not a label, it's a mindset, and approach.