Exciting Shiny Things to Wait For and Read

Lots of things looming, all of which I'm mightily excited about. But if I were honest, the one I'm most giddy about is the Barrelhouse comedy issue, featuring my poem, Drunk-Dialing The Paris Review:



Over on Radius, our new fiction component will be launching on Monday, featuring stories by myself, Barbara DeMarco Barrett, Jeff DeRego and Gary Phillips, along with some wild thoughts on action heroes and metaphor from the brilliant Sam Cha! More on that soon ...

More immediately, I've had pieces in the Telegram recently about Boston's Sons of Serendip, the Greg McKillop tribute album and Bobby Gibbs reading the work of Etheridge Knight.

And it occurs to me that, with all the hullabaloo over the paper being sold and layoffs and all that, I never mentioned my review of John Legend at the Hanover Theatre here. My mistake. It was a lovely show.

More soon ...