neomodernist

Culinary deconstruction seems to be the hip new trend in high end restaurants and on television cooking programs like Iron Chef America and Top Chef. After seeing deconstructed sushi and deconstructed caesar salad and deconstructed martinis, I thought it might be interesting to apply the techniques of culinary deconstruction to a poem.
Here’s my first […]

The new issue of Wicked Alice came out today. It’s a theme issue featuring Chicago poets and a sleek black and white layout.
I especially like the poems “The Party, the Sendoff, the Curse” by Becca Klaver, “Blazon for My Body” by Melissa Severin, and Lindsay Bell’s “Naomi Campbell Has Another Bitch Fit,
Or, the […]

Did you know that Road House 2 came out on DVD today?
Well, now you do.
Did you ever, in your most surreal dreams, imagine they would make a sequel to Road House?

Me either.

Another phobia poem:
Water Is Dangerous
Despite its ordinary appearance,
its omnipresence in the world,
water attacks, kills you
in your own bathtub, or in a heavy rain
(if you fall face down or lie, unconscious,
with your mouth open). A person cannot breathe
underwater; the human lung is a device
designed to process air. Water can be a device
of torture. […]

A few days ago my sister posted a quote from The Decemberists’ song “July, July!” in her family’s blog, and it reminded me how much I like that song. I like it so much I decided to share it.
July, July!
July, July!
There is a road that meets the road that goes to my house and […]

Here is what my investigation of animal groups produced:
The Locus of Desire (Is)
Like a pod of whales, but far heavier.
The shark who is still and thus suffocates.
A siege of cranes. A streak of tigers.
A word we manufacture for convenience,
a compressed way to express the collective,
to fit the many into one specific location.
The space […]