August 2, 2025

This is the first time I've ever entered a contest like this, and I did so only because the press is located in Pgh. Not the result I was hoping for, but I'll take the kudos.

  

July 17, 2025

My poem "The Rivers in Me" is out in The Rowayat, a journal that asks contributors to submit work that is "in dialogue with the transnational social realities of the Afro/Arab regions and their diaspora communities," if they themselves are not of Arab/SWANA descent. I was tickled that a piece by a WASPy AF middle aged trans woman taking a famous Langston Hughes poem as its point of departure fit the bill.

July 16, 2025

Just heard "Pink Pony Club," or most of it anyway, for the first time, and I expect the scars will heal in a couple of weeks. 

June 27, 2025

Hey Pgh, dial up the humidity, I'm not quite feeling waterboarded yet. 🤢 

June 27, 2025

I just sold my spare copy of a 1980 7" EP by Jim Bob & the Leisure Suits. Today's gonna be a good day. 

June 22, 2025

I dropped by an Asian market yesterday morning to pick up dried shrimp for a Brazilian dish I'm cooking for dinner for the coming week (chicken vatapá), and decided I needed some fun fruit for breakfast. So I picked up some muppet berries (aka rambutans). 😋

 

June 21, 2025

I just leaned that the WNBA has a new team in California, the Golden State Valkyries, and a small part of me hopes that they play "Kill the wabbit" while the starting lineup is being introduced.