I had the pleasure of interviewing the extremely talented J. Mae Barizo for Poetry Northwest, where we discussed her stellar second book, Tender Machines—as well as Manhattan’s dark allure and the connection between music and poetry.
Excited to share my poems from Ö, a collaborative translation project with J. Mae Barizo, published in Tupelo Quarterly. These pieces appear in English and Swedish—I also did the translations.
A huge thanks to Kristina Marie Darling (Editor-in-Chief), Wendy Chen (Associate Editor-in-Chief), and everyone else at Tupelo Quarterly for selecting the work.
Click below to read the poems—mine begin on page 8.
Pleased to share my first poetry publishing. My poem “Rain Gathering” appears in the latest issue of Free State Review. Grateful to the editors for including my work.
I recently signed a feature film development deal with SF Studios for an original concept I pitched. SF Studios produced most of the films by Ingmar Bergman, who is my film god.
I reached out to one of my literary heroes, the Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, to see if he’d do me the honor of reading a story of mine.
He said yes, liked my piece, and asked me to contribute a short story to his Borges Project.
The assignment was to write a personal interpretation of an apocryphal text by Jorge Louis Borges, which is evoked by Jean-Philippe in his wonderful novel, The Truth About Marie.
I wrote my story, “The Tears of Borges,” in English, and it was translated into French by Jimmy Poulot-Cazajous, a member of the staff of the literary revue, La Coudée (both versions available at Toussaint’s website).
I couldn’t be more pleased to be part of this.
Read my story in French:
Read my story in English:
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir (Running Away). His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie (The Truth About Marie), won the Prix Décembre.
Pleased to have a short fiction piece (184 words) in the winter issue of CODA Quarterly, a literary journal from The Writers’ Institute at CUNY. Honored to be part of it.
Very cool to see my short story “Ivan at the Wedding” in the Spring issue (No. 81) of AGNI. This is my first publishing, and I couldn’t be happier. Massive thanks to the editors for selecting the piece.