ART WRITING
Rosha Yaghmai: ‘Drifters’ at MCASB (print version) in the Santa Barbara Independent
Visual Artists Bring a Gentle Rewiring to Santa Barbara, Diana Thater, Wu Chi-Tsung and Petra Cortright at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in the Santa Barbara Independent
What survives in transition, Porfirio Gutierrez and Tanya Aguiñiga at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery, in the Santa Barbara Independent
Hybrid Bodies, [PDF version] Canvas and Paper’s curation of Moore, Picasso and Hepworth, in Ojai Valley News
What is America?, Glenn Ligon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Zoe Leonard at SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery, in the Santa Barbara Independent
Rekindling the figurative, Larry Vigon at Silo gallery, in the Santa Barbara Independent.
The Poetics of Omission: Alex Gardner’s “We All Exist Right Now” at the Long Beach Museum of Art, in Art and Cake LA.
Ressucitating flowers Cornelis Kick, Louis Valtat and William Scott at Canvas and Paper, in Ojai Valley News
A Pendulum Swings in Paradise Sandy Ostrau: ‘Paradise Revisited’ in Santa Barbara’s Thomas Reynolds Gallery
Mothering machines: Sasha Style’s Technelegy an AI poetry book review published in Compulsive Reader
Paper artist Pippa Dyrlaga bridges natural worlds in ‘Biophilia’ At Heron Arts, diaphanous visions of foliage, matriarchs, and the grandeur of the unassuming.
Reflections on an explosion: the Beirut disaster three years on Because the catastrophe fits no grand geopolitical narrative of war and history, its destruction is easily forgotten by the world.
Saturating the mundane with the sensual in JP Morrison Lans’ ‘The Love Eater’ The Tulsa artist's show at Heron Arts summons the ungraspable beneath the everyday, with bold colors and body parts.
Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ demonstrates the radical empathy we need right now The long-running solo show channels 11 folks crossing identity-based and geographic borders, and remains a must-see.
DIGITAL POETRY
“Hey you” in Art and Cake A language collage based on found language in my scam mail
POETRY
Variations on Food and Grief in Lunate
What song do you listen to when you want to remember a certain time in your life? in Be About It
What song do you listen to when you want to remember a certain time in your life? in Rabid Oak
As Home Becomes Metaphor in The Racket
As Home Becomes Metaphor in Colossus:Home
As Home Becomes Metaphor in Quiet Lightning
What would a poetry vying for attention look like? in Poetry NYC’s Clickbait
MEDIA
A playlist of all my performances on Youtube
Kess emak, a love letter to Beirut recording in The Racket
Reviews of my work
Flight of The Jaguar reviewed by James Gaynor