After three years and four hundred copies of my last book, “Sun Said Shine,” I’m excited to say that I will have two new books released at the 4/20 Spoken Word Showcase in Flagstaff, AZ on April 20th. The first book is “This Line Drawn Across Footprints,” and is a compilation of work from 2004-2005 [...]

The dinosaurs didn’t die out. They went underground and waited for you mammals to build them palaces. They sent the birds to spy on your hubris. It was a dinosaur who leaked to human science that it is possible to burn their dead bodies as oil. The dinosaurs giveth and the dinosaurs yanketh it all [...]

The night of the first Mexican poetry slam, I was interviewed by Óscar Cid de Leon for the national newspaper Reforma. Below is the article, both in English and Spanish.

Sí, sí, voy a traducirlo al español, esperame tantito… Rabid and homegrown, the first regular, open, Chicago-style poetry slam lights fire in Mexico City, asking no permission and needing none. The Red Fly Tavern is tucked into an old buiding on a quiet street in Colonia Roma, smack in the middle of Mexico City. Steps [...]

The second of a three-part interview for The Noise, published in Flagstaff. To read the entire issue, download the pdf (18.7mb). In the last installment of her interview, Carmen told how six years ago she and her husband David decided to leave their hometown of Cuernavaca, Mexico and try for NYC. She was almost 30 [...]