HAPPY 2024! May this upcoming year make all good things better & bring us all a large measure of peace! Happy New Year! Feliz año nuevo ...

HAPPY 2023! May this upcoming year make all good things better & bring us all a large measure of peace! Happy New Year! Feliz año nuevo ...

Tomorrow, I'll be reading with Sharon Olds  as part of the 92nd St. Y 's storied reading series, so if you're in New York City ,...

If you are free and in or around Hyde Park , please consider attending one of the events at the University of Chicago's Literary Arts La...

HAPPY POETRY MONTH! Back in 2018 I posted a clip on here of a young performer, Orlando Watt , on YouTube  performing a snippet of my poem &q...

Last December when I posted about Punks  I noted that the positive response felt almost inconceivable, in no small part because this was a b...

This afternoon  Cave Canem hosted a celebration for the great 20th century  African American poet Russell Atkins , who had turned 96 just a ...

Somehow, some way, I've made it to 17 years on here. Barely. As post tallies from the last several--7 especially--years have demonstrate...

It has been a while since I posted poems for Black History Month, but this year  Rutgers-Newark made it fairly easy by inviting me to tape s...

May this year bring us all better health, more happiness and as much peace as is humanly and spiritually possible and may Covid-19 fade quie...

Punks  has been out roughly two and a half weeks, but it has begun to receive some very good, thoughtful reviews. They include  a fine revie...

It's official! Punks , my new book of poems is officially in the world! You can order a copy directly from my publisher The Song Cave , ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah on Gravel Heart (via YouTube.com) I haven't blogged much this year, for a variety of reasons, but I did want to post a...

Today, thanks to poet, translator and critic Rosa Alcalá , who curated the poems appearing on The  Academy of American Poets ' September...

The Translation Project's Black History Month tweet, from February 21, 2021,  highlighting my essay "Translating Poetry, Translatin...