I had the honor to participating in a discussion about borders and our place as citizens within border life with a group of poets who are making this world good. The discussion is here. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Phagepunk (Introduction)
0.1 INTRODUCTION In this story, you have a chip implanted in your neck that takes constant measurements of your pulse, blood sugar, physical exercise, and feeds it to your smart phone. In this story, before you travel, you go to the doctors not for vaccines but for an organ transplant that is closer in genetics … Continue reading
Currently Reading: dancers after dark (Jordan Matter)
I love the human body. It is the best piece of art ever. Jordan Matter’s “dancers after dark” features people who know how best to make art with their body. The back reads “300 dancers. 400 locations. More than 150 daring photographs. No clothes. No arrests. No regrets.” And as far as I can tell, mostly … Continue reading
#noDAPL
After months of activity, the people talking, posting, and hashtagging #noDAPL about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) seem to have gone silent. The happy ending story of President Obama’s calling for a review of the plan shifted when our new president quickly not only reversed that order but called for a sped up timeline for … Continue reading
PhagePunk (Manifesto)
PHAGEPUNK 0.0 MANIFESTO Phagepunk proposes a scientific and cultural movement that responds intelligently and with wonder to the excitement and possibilities of the newly emerging view of our viral and microbial selves. Nothing living is a singular entity, sterilely comprised of only its own genetic material and own cells; rather, everything exists in an ecosystem—various … Continue reading
Greedy for Light
As the light seeps from the day, only this patch of grass seizes the pigment. Green with greedy sun behind bleeding orange. Continue reading
Will Write For Love 2017
Three years ago, I organized a live writing event at San Diego State University for Valentine’s Day: Will Write for Love. There’s something fun and visceral about finding the rhythm of keystroke on a typewriter while your mind is wildly racing to come up with new lines–lines that often gallop by unwritten because your fingers … Continue reading
