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  • On Writing "Piss Christ to Stare"
    October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM

    featured in Calf Magazine, I explain my writing process for the ekphrastic poem, "Piss Christ to Stare," after Andres Serrano's photograph, "Piss Christ."

  • Writers should be like scientists

    A discussion on Rage by Stephen King, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and the Manhattan Project? I promise it will all make sense once you start reading.

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