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An audio clip of an excerpt of my poem Rose Window or Prosettes with guitar accompaniment by Stephen B. Antonakos is part of the Advent Calendar for the lovely site Delirious Hem. I’m December 17th, just click on the title above my photo to hear the clip:

DELIRIOUS HEM ADVENT CALENDAR

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Poems from my series Silent Pictures Recognize the World (including one brand new one) on the Word Choice section of the website for Bomb Magazine:

BOMBSITE

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A poem from my series Silent Pictures Recognize the World is in an issue of The Dublin Poetry Review with this online version as well:

DUBLIN POETRY REVIEW

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More Silent Pictures Recognize the World published in LiveMag:

LIVEMAG

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Another poem of mine written in Spain is in the new issue of Sensitive Skin Magazine with audio:

SENSITIVE SKIN MAGAZINE

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Translations I’ve done with Virlana Tkacz of Serhiy Zhadan’s poems are in the new issue of Mad Hatters’ Review:

MAD HATTERS REVIEW

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Check out my poems written in Spain and recently published on the online poetry journal mediterranean.nu (which specializes in poems about the Mediterranean world):

MEDITERRANEAN.NU

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I had a ball at the Artists’ Salon last week in the penthouse at the Roger Smith Hotel. You can find photos and video highlights here:

ARTISTS’ SALON AT THE ROGER SMITH HOTEL RECAP

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I am proud to participate (November 5th and 13th) in the upcoming New York Foundation for the Arts Boot Camp Arts Festival. You can see the full schedule of events here:

NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS BOOT CAMP ARTS FESTIVAL

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Some of my poems have been translated into Bangla and published in one of the most popular and oldest daily papers in Bangladesh. Here’s the online version:

SANGBAD

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Just featured as “Tuesday Poet” on Black Bottom Blog–An African American blog of politics, culture, and social activism based in Michigan–they included one of my morning poems as well:

THE BLACK BOTTOM BLOG

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I’m so excited.

I just found out one of my most recent poems, from my series Silent Pictures Recognize the World II, will be included in this wild shoe museum in Belgium as well as on their website.

The exhibit includes artists’ work shoes sometimes turned into artwork as well as an ethnographic section of shoes from traditional cultures, a designer section and now drawing, cartoons and writings about shoes.

You can find my poem on their website if you click on the authors section on the bottom right hand corner then scroll down to my name:

SHOES OR NO SHOES MUSEUM

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My first full length book of poems, Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, is now available as an Amazon Kindle book (downloadable also for mac laptop, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, blackberry and Android)–buy one and tell all your friends:

WAKE-UP CALLS AMAZON KINDLE BOOK

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More poems from my work-in-progress series Silent Pictures Recognize the World are now in the Arts Journal The Brooklyn Rail:

SILENT PICTURES RECOGNIZE THE WORLD II IN THE BROOKLYN RAIL