On What Sun a 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry finalist
April 4, 2023 Dear Ezra Feldman, Thank you so much for entering the 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Final judge Felicia Zamora has selected Gale Thompson's "Mountain Amnesia" as this…
Scansion: A Limitation of ChatGPT
EDF: can you find me a dactylic word or phrase that means 'responsible'? "Ac-count-a-ble" is a dactylic word that means responsible. EDF: No, "accountable" is not dactylic. A dactyl has…
Review of Ecologia
My latest poetry review at Gertrude is of Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen’s debut collection, Ecologia.
On What Sun a runner up for the Tupelo Open Reading Period 2021
Tupelo Press has announced their selections and runners up for the 2021 July Open Reading Period. All gratitude to their editorial team, Kristina Marie Darling, Editor-in-Chief, Cassandra Cleghorn, Poetry Editor,…
Review of Low Rent Prophet
I've been reviewing poetry and fiction for Gertrude Press for a while now. My latest review, of Dani Gabriel's Low Rent Prophet, is now live.
“Into Orbit” in the film Lachrymal
The students in Jason Harrington's SP21 ACP animation class did a great job with my poem "Into Orbit." The voiceover is by David Glick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71oMaiCMmbA
“Enlightenment” – Publication Live
This prose poem, generated alongside my book MS On What Sun, has been picked up by the Dillydoun Review. It is in Issue 4 (May 2021).
“Feldman is less frustrating than Shakespeare.”
My cousin generously chose to teach selections from Habitat of Stones in an introductory level literature class. One student wrote, “Feldman is less frustrating than Shakespeare.” I'll take this win.
Currently Reading
Rivka Galchen's American Innovations; Carlo Ginzburg's "Morelli, Freud and Sherlock Homes: Clues and Scientific Method"; Edward Said's "Introduction" to Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Up soon: Felicia Rose Chavez's The Anti-Racist Writing…
How Screens Work [In the Future of Affection] – Publication Alert
"How Screens Work [In the Future of Affection]" will be published in Columbia Journal 59.