Song of a Reformed Headhunter

Just received my contributor's copy of This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ poets on the art of teaching . Proud to be out with Gregory Woods, Cyril Wong, Timothy Liu, Benjamin Grossberg and Garth Greenwell. Megan Volpert edited and Sibling Rivalry Press published this important anthology. It will be launched at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia, in September. I will be reading and speaking on the panel with Megan, Bryan Broland and other contributors.

(Q Thomas Bower) Happy Valentine's Day! Ocean Vuong guest-edits a portfolio of poems on desire and love over at the Margins, the on-line journal of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. The lovers-poets are Cathy Linh Che, David Mura, Joseph O. Legaspi, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Timothy Liu and Victoria Chang. I have a poem, "Eve's Fault," in it too.

Steven Cordova kicked off his new reading series called "Working Authors" by featuring six poets from Best Gay Poetry 2008 , edited by Lawrence Schimel. I read last night, together with Chip Livingston, Timothy Liu, Jason Schneiderman, Emmanuel Xavier and the curator himself. The room in the LGBT center was nicely filled up. I read "Glass Orgasm" from the anthology, and "Florida" and "Montauk." The last two worked well together. Despite stumbling twice, my reading I judge was compelling. TH and EN were there, as was SS who swopped her new book The Future Is Happy for mine. The Friday before last I read at Cornelia Street Cafe, curated by Kat Georges. I did my best ever reading then. Hit every musical phrase with precision and made every structure sensible. The poems were mostly about my father, from the first section of my book. EN was there.