Category: lit crit

• // empty mirror & in bed

  

  In keeping with the season of good news, I’m excited to share two more recent publications: four excerpts from California Building up today in Empty Mirror, and a standalone prose poem up this week in Queen Mob’s Teahouse for its “In Bed With…” series. I’m grateful to the editors for giving a home to my…

  TKM

  March 30, 2018

  lit crit, poetry, press

  #amwriting, denise enck, empty mirror, lit journals, poetry, publishing, qmt, russell bennetts

• // elephants wouldn’t wonder

    Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…

  TKM

  May 16, 2016

  education, environment, film, lit crit, press

  animal agriculture, animal rights, Berfrois, company town, film criticism, Gregory Giles, horror film, oakland, oakland unified school district, ousd, russell bennetts, tiny houses, vegan

• // queen mob’s teahouse

        Today on Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a conversation with Russell Bennetts about aggressive earnestness and, well, you be the judge. And no, those aren’t our real bodies. Also, in case you missed it, Bennetts was behind another recent project: Jeff Bezos wrote a poetry ebook, and I helped.          …

  TKM

  February 12, 2015

  lit crit, poetry, press, sped

• // 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” Where is their hive and why did you settle for mechanized translation as intentional language// —“The Apiary” Think of it as a Rubik’s cube/ not a…

  TKM

  January 17, 2013

  lit crit, poetry, sped