Photo: Mark Dellas
Writer and publisher.
I’m a writer from Buffalo, New York. I’m interested in the people that shape places and places that shape people—and the people and places that have shaped me. I’m also a cofounder and publisher of Foundlings Press, senior editor at Traffic East, founder of Carrowduff Arts consultancy, and Literary Curator at Artpark, where I oversee a residency for poets and writers. News and new work are below.
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Only after we are certain that we have finished a piece of writing can we know precisely what we have failed to say. Among other things, this failure points us to where we must begin writing again.
“A Hole at the Bottom of the Book” in Public Books
As an open atheist, the answer shouldn’t have mattered to me—but I wish he would have said, simply, “yes.”
“The Things We Choose” in Humanities Magazine
The Dug-Up Gun Museum is not an attempt to answer a question, to stay confusion, or even to bear witness, which means to attest to the truth of something. It merely aims to stun our conditioned apostrophe—an exercise in durational resistance to turning away.
Reviewing Matt Donovan’s The Dug-Up Gun Museum in Colorado Review
Time continues at its plastic pace. Experience, like language, accumulates. And love, like writing, tends to want another word.
“Stet: On Cutting—and Keeping—Everything,” in The Millions