Publications

The first time something I had written was put out for public consumption was when a friend of mine, who played guitar in Christ on Parade, took a political rant I was working on off my word processor. “I wanna use this tonight,” he said, and we went down to Kinkos Copies where he copied and stapled my piece into pamphlets that were handed out at the show that night. In the 1990s, I began to submit and publish (mainly) poetry in zines and small press journals. But in 2004 I sent some poems into a contest. I hadn’t really thought about it; it was just like a normal submission to me. But then one of the poems won 2nd place—and $250! On the one hand it was a great surprise, but on the other…it just felt weird. It took me back to The Farm and other punk venues where the zines we traded or gave away were a creative/political exchange; and significantly anti-capitalistic. There was also this realization of “competition.” I don’t want to be in competition with fellow writers; I want to be in community with them. So I have never entered a contest again, and continue to send work to small presses. As many of the journals I have been involved with over the years are now defunct, I try and list only linked pages below.

My feelings around my photography are a bit different, and I did not have an issue being paid for cover work for The Sun, for instance. Maybe it is the raw closeness of my writing, but I prefer to give it away in a sense. In any case—

PHOTOGRAPHY

ONLINE

Two Photographs/Blue Sky Gallery: Visualizing 2020

Nine Photographs/Cross Connect Magazine

Six Photographs/Anti-Heroin Chic

PRINT

Two Photographs/POEMS-FOR-All

Ostap and Pig/The Sun Magazine

Anarchy Rock/Eleuthera Press, Italy

Six Photographs/Poesy #31,35,36,37

Two Photographs/Terra Incognita #6

WRITING

ANTHOLOGIES

Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts: Omnibus, Volume 1 (Mystic Boxing Commission, 2022)

Roots & Routes: Poetics at New College of California (Vernon Press, 2020)

56 Days of August (Five Oaks Press, 2017)

America Is Not The World (Pankhearst Press, 2016)

 Letterhead—Volume 2 (Highest Hurdle Press, 2008)

CHAPBOOKS

Reconstructions from the Bones of the Whale (Ghost City Press, 2024)

On a Planet Called Earth (Rinky Dink Press, 2019)

Instructions for the Apocalypse (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)

POETRY IS (microbook by POEMS-FOR-ALL, 2016)

if apple juice were oil (microbook by POEMS-FOR-ALL, 2016)

People Live Here (Origami Poems Project, 2015)

Pamyat Selo/Memory Village (Premier Poets Chapbook Series: 33, 2007)

Поезії Жінок України (Publisher; co-editor, 1997)

ONLINE