Hey, sweets. Sneaky early bouquet—just a coupla stems—to keep you in the loop if we’re on a Substack-only basis:
My poem “A New Star Rising” has been published Issue 4 of In The Mood. It’s inspired by Privileged (1982), an imperfect gem of a backstage drama following a group of students at Oxford, directed by Michael Hoffman and featuring Hugh Grant and James Wilby and Mark Williams and Imogen Stubbs and a stunning lead performance from Diana Katis, whose portrayal of Anne makes you completely fall in love with her. It’s funny and lived-in and occasionally tonally incongruous. I adore it. I’m sure I’ll write about it again.
Poetry Shelf’s paragraph series has come to a pause. For this final-for-now iteration, the wonderful Paula had us each write our own William Carlos Williamsesque “No … but in …”. Mine was “No abandon but in design”. You can read it—and a great selection of other writers’ responses (both theory-based and poetic)—here.
Short Films, a collection of my poems, will be published in October with We Are Babies Press.1
Back soon, warmly,
T
(WAB announced the book publicly yesterday.)