"I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody."

"To my old brown earth
And to my old blue sky
I'll now give these last few molecules of "I."

And you who sing,
And you who stand nearby,
I do charge you not to cry.

Guard well our human chain,
Watch well you keep it strong,
As long as sun will shine.

And this our home,
Keep pure and sweet and green,
For now I'm yours
And you are also mine"

— Pete Seeger

A couple of things

I just set up a monthly donation of $25 to the RI Community Food Bank.

This interview between Sarah McCarry and Mairead Case about being a working artist with depression -- the first in a series -- is good to read, but the part that really got me was "When I feel like E.T. I phone home." I am so grateful to and for all the people I can phone home to.

Some poems up at Similar:Peaks:: about making and fearing futures. Thanks to Rachel and David and the other Similar:Peaksers::. Thinking about fear a lot lately. (Also, feeling a lot of fear lately.) Watch this space.

Witch Fingers

Providence is full of sinister magic and phosphoresence. Ask anyone. Or see for yourself in Witch Fingers, a new book of lore, a demonic offering.

Witch Fingers was edited and printed by Xander Marro and includes word and picture work by CF, Kate Schapira, Joanna Ruocco, Alison Nitkiewicz & Juilia Moses, James Talbot Frain, Sussy Santana, Aaron Anderson, Carrie Collier, Mickey Zachili, Shey Rivera-Rios, Polina Malikin, Sasha Wiseman, Anna Purna Himel Wagner, Olivia Horvath, Liz Luisada. Costs $13, obviously.

New work at Return to Default! Old work at With + Stand!

Some new poems up at Return to Default! These are from a new manuscript called The Duration.

With + Stand lost their hard copies of their 6th issue, with work by many excellent humans including Tyrone Williams, Jennifer Bartlett, Angela Veronica Wong, Cara Benson and me, but you can now download a silky-soft PDF.

Publicly Complex: Simone White, Christine Hou, Geoffrey Nutter!

Tomorrow (Saturday, 10/26) at 6pm:

poetry by
Simone White
Geoffrey Nutter
Christine Hou

at Ada Books (717 Westminster St.)

Three poets whose work I think is just so great. You will too, if you come and hear them.

Review of The Fluency of Light

I reviewed The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theatre of Black and White by Aisha Sabatini Sloan. This book surprised, provoked and moved me; I recommend checking it out.

Publicly Complex presents Waldrop, Ragosta, Hayden!

This is tonight we're talking about:

poetry by
Keith Waldrop
Ray Ragosta
Sarah Hayden

Saturday, October 19th, at 6 pm
at Ada Books (717 Westminster St., Providence)