Father television set the messageand the noise cancelling overthe ear surround sound was meant to re-fetalize—so the problem was family,or how we thought about family.
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FJD is an interior test card whose tones are distilled and emitted as ambient noise.
The free jam is jazz. It is the raga spinning from a pattern and coming back and roaring forth again.
Urgent, inventive and sorrowful in turn, poems wrenched from some existential plane, mournful in their trajectory yet fascinating in their strangeness, like black flowers blooming along a crooked path.
—Estill Pollock, author of Entropy, Time Signatures, Relic Environments Trilogy, & others.
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Transistor is a transition, a communication, a sending; it is the cool and sacred bond of everything that unites and uplifts us, but it is also the cause of an underlying and persistent dissent that remains between us and who we thought we were. Transistor veins out from body to body, city to city, each human act.
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Poems from Bardo made into Music. A companion journey to the book. Each poem opens with common sounds from the streets. Music made with friends.
North American poet. Author of Transistor (Broadstone Books, 2021), Bardo (Broadstone Books, 2022), and Free Jam Down, forthcoming from Beltway Editions in January 2027.
Poems published in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Arc Poetry Magazine, among others. Chapbook Transitions shortlisted for the 2020 Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest. First novel in progress.
I was, site specific, in a whitewashed white cube of a room with no door and a palimpsest paintjob, high on oxycontin, beside girls carrying guayaba and oxycontin in tingardens, which was an error in syntax in the brochure subtext, so the brochure couldn’t insure it for sure, not w/ the etch-a-sketch magicscreen, where the television watched me, in a whitewashed white cube of a room
where the viewer views the viewer viewed
Cuernavaca, Morelos · México
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