I will be reading with Chris Nealon and George Stanley at the Zinc Bar (82 W 3rd St, NYC), Sunday, May 17, at 6:30 p.m.

Ali will read the following night with Lorna Dee Cervantes and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon at the 11th Street Bar (510 East 11th Street, NYC) at 7 pm.

*

My review of Laura Miller's The Magician's Book appears in the May 25, 2009 edition of The Nation.

*

In other news, my poem "From the C to the 4 or 5" is in the new American Letters and Commentary, and my poem "How to Get Started, How to Keep Going, How to Stop" appears in the new Conduit [Note: Link will shrink your browser window].