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A Review of Kelly Gray’s “The Mating Calls of a Specter”

Posted on April 18th, 2024 by Fatal Flaw

Kelly Gray’s newest chapbook, The Mating Calls of a Specter, is a haunting exorcism that explores in stark, incisive language the profound ways in which sexual trauma imprints itself on the body and changes that body’s very composition.

A Review of Evelyn Berry’s “Grief Slut”

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Fatal Flaw

Evelyn Berry’s debut poetry collection is a vibrant, punchy, pop-laden triumph that explores the poet’s life as a trans woman growing up in the American south. The poems inside are a mix of sweet and tart, grease and glitter, bursting with life like overripe fruit, their juices pooling on the page in all their glorious stickiness so that you come away with their pulpy guts on your fingertips. 

Zoom Reading with Public Poetry

Come through online to see me read my poem from Public Poetry’s new anthology: “Habits: The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly.”

Where: Zoom - Click for Link When: January 28, 2024 @ 5:00 PM EST

Zoom Reading with The Sprawl

Catch me online with fellow contributors to celebrate the launch of The Sprawl Volume 1.2. Registration required.

Where: Zoom - Register Here When: July 26, 2023 @ 6:00 PM EST

Reading at Housing Works

Join me at Housing Works in Soho for another night of reading with Molly Zhu and several other wonderful fellow poets and artists. Free event, no registration required.

Where: Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby St. New York, NY When: July 20, 2023 @ 6:00 PM EST

Reading at Unnamable Books

Hosted by Molly Zhu in celebration of her debut chapbook, “Asian American Translations,” come see me read some poetry along with a host of other talented writers and artists.

Where: Unnamable Books - 675 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY When: May 17, 2023 @ 6:30 PM EST

A Review of Molly Zu’s “Asian American Translations”

Posted on April 7, 2023 by Fatal Flaw

Molly Zhu’s stunning chapbook debut, Asian American Translations, is a deep and tender meditation on the delicate act of growing up and how time, distance, and differences in culture can create chasms in meaning and understanding. Zhu asks what gets lost in translation, not merely from one language to another, but from generation to generation.

MER Poem of the Month: Virgin Mary as Teakettle

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Mom Egg Review

Praise be to you, spattered
with chicken grease and garlic fat, the cerulean of your enamel
like a blue mantle…

Synkroniciti Featured Artist: Chelsea Fanning

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Kat McDaniel

Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome the first of our Featured Artists of “Ritual,” poet and writer Chelsea Fanning, with three stunning feminist poems, “The Cult of VenusTM,” “boy meets girl,” and “Hereditary.” Together they pick away at the misogyny and female denigration that persist and often prevail in modern society…