Preparing for Hurricane Irma is a queer drama. A mixture of irrational fear and ironic humor permeates every thought. Can the dogs swim? Should I keep the ladder accessible in case we need to escape rising water and commandeer the roof? Is there enough cat litter? Water? Food? As I prepare, many South Floridians can't [...]
Miami New Times interviews Neil de la Flor about Reading Queer: Poetry In A Time of Chaos, a new anthology he co-editedwith Maureen Seaton. Excerpt: "As Miami’s cultural landscape boomed in the past decade — with the influx of major art fairs, new museums, and local galleries opening in up-and-coming neighborhoods — the city’s queer [...]
I'm happy to announce the forthcoming anthology Reading Queer: Poetry In A Time of Chaos, (Anhinga Press, 2018), which brings together fifty LGBTQ poets in the spirit and solidarity of poetry at its finest and fiercest. Pre-order now @ http://www.anhingapress.org/poetry/reading-queer-poetry-in-a-time-of-chaos. Edited by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos is [...]
According to the Farmer's Almanac, "Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milk and lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. ... It turned the mixture red in [...]
"The Mean State of Virtue" | 60" x 40" or 30" x 20" (c-print) |Backstory: an evening driving through rain in Little Haiti that ended with a line lifted from Aristotle's Politics.
A break from preparing tax returns lead to "Exodus", a new image from a new photographic series called TxT. Thanks to Bessy Grisell Morales & Andre Martinez for letting me translate their wedding imagery into language, which kind of looks like the conga line that never took place during the reception.
I wrote about visionary gallerist Bernice Steinbaum for the Miami New Times. Here's an excerpt: "Above the entrance to the gallery space hangs a neon sign that reads "Know BS," a slogan Steinbaum has used in the past that cheekily references her initials. But in this space, the command takes on a solemn meaning: To "know [...]
It's been an exhilarating and exhausting year. Strange and wondrous. Politically queer and quite peculiar, but rewarding nonetheless. Last night (or was it the night before?), I received a $70,000 Knight Arts Challenge Miami grant on behalf of Reading Queer, a literary organization that I co-founded with Maureen Seaton & Paula Kolek in 2013. The [...]
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awards Reading Queer a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge Miami (KACM) grant, a community-wide initiative funding the best ideas for the arts in South Florida. This is the second KACM grant awarded to Reading Queer since 2013. "The KACM grant will strengthen Reading Queer and its mission to [...]
*Pardon the typos. Blogging from the floor of a preofessional development workshop where I'm "teaching" over 100 Miami Dade County Public School Teachers how to lead and execute creative writing workshops in their classes on behalf of Piano Slam/Dranoff Foundation at the Arscht Center. Teachers are amazing people. I wish stduents could see the behind [...]
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