things i made, things i thought.

rejected from mcsweeneys
Are you a person or a string of letters?

Journey’s End Motel
new album drops 4/29. My words & voice with music by Michael Alan Goldberg. It’s really fuckin good. Preorder now.

looking (2021)
Blue horse, blue horseWon’t you come to me?Blue bird, blue birdWon’t you cry for me?Blue mommy, blue mommyWon’t you come to me? -mg Winter is dry and fire sweeps the plains. Gunshots and hard winds shake the city. I pile boxes and bags into the compact SUV, wondering at the luxury of my life. InContinue reading “looking (2021)”

New fall things
Garden of Earthly Delights #7 Listen to me read Strategy, from my book Selftitled, on Hello America’s Fall Mixtape

hello darling, i exist
i didn’t block you on social media. i deactivated that shit. it was very satisfying. i’ll probably be back. I want to do a physical newsletter/tiny zine on the regular. Rather than social media. In the style of Billy McCall (genius, hero) and suburban ladies who send out family updates with the Christmas card. ButContinue reading “hello darling, i exist”
New piece at Hello America
my garden of earthly delights #5: Home
Go Read This
The Garden of Earthly Delights #3, by me
New column up at Hello America
Read it here If you like it, subscribe to my Patreon

New shit
Read the first installment of the new column I’m writing for Hello America: The Garden of Earthly Delights #1 Listen to a podcast interview I did with Textual Healing: Tinder is the Touch
The Start Zero From Flesh
new thing, read to you from my car

Sorry 2
I discover new varieties of heartbreak

roadside
i take a drive and think about things

As I Was Falling Asleep
a small thing read aloud by me

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Big News
a book! a tape! an excerpt!

Variations on Leaving
including seven haiku about a stupid bicycle hook

Small Interview with Hello America
Elizabeth Thompson of Hello America Lit asked me some questions. Read the interview here. And don’t forget to preorder my tape! Out May 7, 2021.

PREORDER MY NEW TAPE
Soft Animal is my small book about how tragedy can fall from the sky for no reason at all. It’s part poetry, part prose, all heart. It’s been a real joy to work with Adam Gnade and the folks at Hello America to transform Soft Animal into an audio recording. Get the cassette tape andContinue reading “PREORDER MY NEW TAPE”

listen to this
You May Begin Speaking Now

Read my new piece at Horror Sleaze Trash!
it’s not what it sounds like

New Release: Hello America’s Spring Collection
listen to these audio gems

battlecry,tribute
Being a single parent during pandemic or PTSD or poverty means you escape certain pains: the ravages of loneliness, purposelessness, boredom. Single parenting means you are never bored, never without a purpose, never lonely.