Meta, from The Ars Magna for the Manifold Dimensions of z, joined the Danish Underground Resistance during the Nazi occupation of Denmark during WW II. Her role in the resistance is unclear, but she paid the ultimate price for her work undermining their stranglehold on her homeland. “For most non-Jewish Danish prisoners, the period between [...]
"Daring and brilliant, Neil De La Flor's latest book, The Ars Magna for the Manifold Dimensions of z, is a big kick in the rear to absurdist theater. It stars a very tough Meta, a member of the Danish underground."
Check out my new collaborative poem with Maureen Seaton on the first issue of Limp Wrist. Read the poem here.
Check out my new collaborative poem with Maureen Seaton "Life Is A Mystery: A History Without Answers". It's up at the Columbia Poetry Review. Life is a Mystery: A History Without Answers Life is a mystery. It rhymes with history, which rhymes with kiss andsomething else. Life is a mystery because when I try to [...]
Brian Clements invited Maureen Seaton and I to contribute to Every Atom, a project he curated to celebrate Walt Whitman at 200. (Read Brian's introduction to the project here.) Maureen and I had some reservations about celebrating Whitman. Despite his queerness, he was racist. You can find stark reminders of that in his work. (Read [...]
Grateful to have a new poem and photograph published in the Best American Poetry blog for the Florida summer series curated by Emma Trelles. This poem remembers clubbing in the semi-old days at The Vagabond co-owned by the great Carmel Ophir, who defined the Miami club scene for a decade or so. I miss those [...]
This Tuesday, June 25th I'll lead a poetry workshop for teachers during the Miami Poetry Teachers Institute at the New World Center. The five-day event is hosted by The Poetry Foundation and its primary goal is to help teachers "to develop lesson plans to bring back to their classrooms." During my one-hour workshop titled Turning [...]
Help me raise $5,000 before November 15th and fuel the future of queer literary culture in South Florida. Support life-affirming programming by and for the community @ readingqueer.org/donate Meet Parvati Villarba, Programming Director @ Reading Queer. “Reading Queer has taught me that Queerness transcends race, gender, sexuality, and class— by which it is an umbrella [...]
2017 marks the third iteration of the Reading Queer Literary Festival, which I co-founded in 2014. This year, Reading Queer partnered with the Miami Book Fair, The Olympia Theater and O Cinema Wynwood to create a series of queer-centric cultural programming for South Florida. I'm incredibly excited that Chen Chen (Long listed for the 2017 [...]
Residents of Belle Meade suffered minor damage when Hurricane Irma ripped through the Miami neighborhood. Those who live along the south shore of South Little River weren't as fortunate. Three days later, flood waters remain. No electric, no internet and 90+ temperatures make the situation feel hellish, but the community and its residents will recover. [...]
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