I’m highlighting my writing on this site.

I came to poetry in a roundabout way. An early interest in drawing and painting inspired me to initially focus on visual art. That pursuit led to a Painting major at RISD, studio practice, and eventually art handling for an art museum. At the same time I was avidly reading and writing, finding myself drawn to artists who employ literary references, and text itself gradually became the focus of my work. My in progress manuscript investigates the nature of perception, cognition, gaze, identity, and aesthetics.

I’ve considered myself primarily a poet for years now. Do I still think of myself as an outsider? Yes, and my favorite writers are outliers, underdogs, misfits to the literary norm. I try to read widely and seek out authors from different schools and walks of life. In keeping with a consistent desire to explore currents counter to the mainstream, I’ve lately been reading authors of the Modern avant garde. I’m also a publisher of a very small press, and as such am always on the lookout for work by contemporary poets who buck the trend.

A selection of my work can be found here on the Publications page. I do my best to keep it up to date!