Month: April 2017
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new doors via richard tillinghast
A few big changes have happened in my life that I am barely catching up on enough to relate here. The first is that I have happily accepted an Assistant Professor position at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. I am really excited to be joining a stellar faculty at an institution known for cultivating a […]
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revisiting spiderman
As the release date of my next poetry collection, Small Fires (FutureCycle Press), approaches, I want to quickly revisit one of the key poems from my book Everything We Think We Hear (Floricanto Press). Below is the piece “Spiderman Hitches a Ride” along with a short essay about the origins of the piece. The short essay was originally […]
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a robert okaji triptych
Mirror – Robert Okaji The attraction is not unexpected. We see what is placed before us, not what may be. The mirror is empty until approached. * This week’s poems were originally published as part of the Origami Poems Project who create free, downloadable microchaps. “Mirror” and “Earth” (below) come from You Break What Falls, and […]
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new microreview & interview at the CR blog!
Just a quick post to share my latest and last microreview & interview for the Cincinnati Review blog! This time around I spend time with Jennifer Givhan’s Landscape With Headless Mama (Pleiades Press). I’ve had a blast writing for the CR blog and plan to continue the microreview & interviews here on the Influence (check out […]
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some influence & book news!
influence news This month marks five years of blogging on The Friday Influence! Over the years, this space has been a great source of community for me. Thank you to all of you who stop by regularly or just pop in at random looking for a poem. I continue learning much from interacting with you, either […]
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new prose poems & #poetsofinstagram news!
Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Pretty Owl Poetry which features three prose poems of mine from a new project. This issue includes stellar work from Ellen McGrath Smith, Chelsea Tadeyeske, and Trish Hopkinson among other great contributions. Special thanks to Kelly Lorraine Andrews, Gordan Buchan, and everyone […]
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fallacying with susan lewis
In my recent microreview & interview of Susan Lewis’ Heisenberg’s Salon (BlazeVox [books]), I discuss the ways in which the poems in the collection engage with the uncertainty principle and its take on the relation between position and momentum. My own crude, working definition of the concept takes me back to my reading into Zen, ideas like how we […]
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new #poetsofinstagram interview!
Just a quick post to share my latest interview in my #poetsofinstagram series over at the Cincinnati Review blog! Read it here. This time around @colette.lh shares some of her stunning work as well as insights into what motivates and inspires her writing. Be sure to check out my own @poetryamano account, a poetry project focused […]
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microreview & interview: Susan Lewis’ Heisenberg’s Salon
review by José Angel Araguz Drawing inspiration from German physicist Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which “states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa,” Susan Lewis’ latest collection, Heisenberg’s Salon (BlazeVOX [books]), presents a prose poem collection that evokes the form’s surrealist traditions […]
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