// playlist

sped was officially born today! Cue the celebratory music. One day I’d like to write more about the why—or at least the how come—of these songs. For now, with school Continue reading →

// in memory

    When I flew to Seattle for my father’s memorial service, my mother and I–and sometimes the people who streamed through my parents’ house for the days and weeks Continue reading →

// interview & awp

  Hot off the binary presses, How to Greet Strangers author Joyce Thompson interviews me about sped:  process, concept, real life. And, sped pre-releases at AWP!  Swing by the Sidebrow/Les Continue reading →

// special

  I told her Disability must be fixed if this is the only life we have, and if we live again, it will be fixed then// If your head were Continue reading →

// the real cover & artistic autopsy

  At the dinner table he dissected the banana, examined it under a magnifying glass, weighed it/ Prelude to the massacre, to the years of rain/ – Forever No Lo Continue reading →

// straight girls

// what does a lesbian bring to a second date—with a man?     swept up and the close bodies chanting/ She told me not to fuck with straight girls/ Continue reading →

// t.g.s.

// the geographic solution     I believe them when they say In a beautiful place out in the country – “Forever No Lo,” first section of sped   My Continue reading →

// this is not the real cover, and other stories

  My father used to line up water bottles of diluted Tang and Country Time lemonade, pile up bagels on a sawhorse in the garage, turn on a VHS of Continue reading →

// blissful (un)democracy

My last semester at Mills, I sent my MFA thesis to O Books out of a combination of Why not? and Just maybe…  I was fortunate enough to receive a Continue reading →