I had so much fun talking about GoldenEye with the lovely guys at Hot Button! Check out the interview here:
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I’m overjoyed to announce that my next book of poetry, Ardor, is now available to pre-order through Gasher Press! This book is so special to me, as I wrote the poems within it over a ten-year period that included falling in love with and marrying my wife Kate, falling in love with and pursuing a career in teaching, moving to Alaska, moving to Colorado, having my daughter Lucy, and trying to raise her amidst a pandemic. The book is about all of this and more: loving and mothering and teaching in the face of environmental crisis and finding meaning in an age of cynicism. The poems are inherently joyful and doggedly hopeful—to put it simply, this book is me at my most earnest and honest, exploring what poetry can do to save us all. I hope you will pre-order it, and I hope the work can offer you some joy, too.
This summer, I'm offering a class on social justice themes in sci-fi for Hugo House!
Here's the course description: Beneath the dazzling spectacle of sci-fi lies fascinating ethical questions about humanity—questions about how society treats the mutant, alien, or cyborg "other," about whether technology causes or eliminates suffering, or about the origins of oppressive dystopian societies. In this generative writing course, we'll read sci-fi writers of diverse identities and informally freewrite our own work in response. Through the lenses of feminist and queer theory, Afrofuturism, disability rights, and more, we'll explore how sci-fi helps us imagine better futures.
The class meets on Tuesdays from 8:10-10:10 p.m. Mountain time, Aug. 8-29.
Registration opens for Hugo House members on June 6, with general registration to follow. on June 13. Scholarships are available here, and you can learn more about the class here.
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