University of Oregon / [sub]Urban Visual Arts Festival
Month: November 2018
SAYING YOUR NAME THREE TIMES UNDERWATER – Book Trailer
Here is the book trailer for Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater. Thank you so much to poet, musician, and good friend Max Heinegg for the accompanying music, I feel it truly captures the essence of the book. Special thanks to Danny Rosen, Kyle Harvey, and the Lithic Press team for making my dream come […]
Poet Laureate Thoughts, New Book, Laundry
I Had a long and deep conversation with my mentor this morning and he kept saying “Remember the past four years.” Four years ago…I buried my first poem because I dreamt of leaves needing words on them. Four years ago…I buried a bust sculpture of my birthfather and later dug it up because of another […]
DILA
• • • he wanted to plant it on the ground and wish for a boy with a beak this time—like Jesus whose father was a dove, with a crown illuming a whitish-gold light, la luz. The light of Christ, kandila, sounds like Candle, dila, tongue— my tongue is borrowed because…Dear Lord, I’ve been seething […]