Author: Siel

The L.A. Telephone Book Vol. 2 is now out! Put together by poet Brian Kim Stefans, this directory of sorts pulls together work by SoCal writers and text-artists. Four of my poems are in the book. Here’s the beginning of “Eager”:

These days I’m an accidental sadist, scouting out inconveniences. Throw me a curve ball and I’ll catch it, if it falls in my quiet hand. Masochism’s so pedestrian, haven’t we all almost been hit by a car.

The other poems are “Opener,” ”Tidier,” and “Brighter.” Download the whole book as a PDF — free! — to enjoy poems from Will Alexander, Diana Arterian, Chris Stoffolino, Thérèse Bachand, Molly Bendall, and many others.

So Drunken Boat 18 just went live — and a poem of mine called “Might Club” is in the new issue. Here are the first three lines:

Read the rest at Drunken Boat 18, which features special folios on Debt, the Ocean, the Librotraficante movement, and more.

My latest poems are up on wicked alice, an e-zine dedicated to women-centered writing and art edited by Kristy Bowen, the woman behind Dancing Girl Press. Here’s the beginning of one of them, titled “Boy Toy”:

Via security cameras I watch his torture.
In the tube he turns into a homunculus,
jailed in a box to be probed with knitting needles,
that little space between his ribs, my two
favorites. I test the slight give of his
right lung, its wan fleshy complaint, before
turning him over to my minions.

Read the rest — and two more poems — at wicked alice.

Also — Dancing Girl Press will be publishing my chapbook, Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit, next year.

Not too long ago I worked on a series of two-column poems — the idea being that one column would be the personal and the other the political, but that the two could be combined by reading the poems across too. Three of these poems went up on The Offending Adam this morning, preceded by a generous introduction from Cody Todd. Here’s the beginning of one of the poems, titled “Stilettos”:

Read the rest at The Offending Adam. Enjoy –

My latest poems are in issue 30 of Otoliths, a quarterly zine edited by Mark Young in Australia. Here’s the beginning of one of them, titled “Surveillance”:

The trick is to enjoy it, the machine
gun rhythm of periodontal spondees,
the vroom vroom of one metaphor clapping.

Read the rest — and two more poems — on Otoliths.