When the quake hit, I was sitting in bed reading @jdbrecords.bsky.social's forthcoming book Re-Animator, which contains lots of references to horror movies like The Exorcist and Poltergeist, and as the bed started to shake I thought "is this book in Sensurround?"

Impossible Archetype was the first place to pick up one of my poems. This was a huge burst of confidence for someone who’d been writing their entire life but had never been published. They then included me in five more issues over the years. IA will be greatly missed but the archive will live on!

NYFF faves so far: THE SECRET AGENT, THE MASTERMIND, and ROSE OF NEVADA. ♥️

“mall stops” by Jeffrey H. MacLachlan synthetic sea breeze oh the aquamarine coins mating winks track lighting chlorine siren imagined pocketing prison city wishes of caribbean sand

My Film-Forward review of PLAINCLOTHES. 🩵

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RIP Redford. 🤍

My review of THE HISTORY OF SOUND. www.jdbrecords.com/2025/09/the-... 🤍🎵

“Mill Creek Drive” by J.T. Trigonis Soon, we'd // be at the mall, that holiest of pre-adolescent holies, / shops assailing our senses, every minute feeling / Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

My poem “Aubade” is live in issue 18 of Impossible Archetype! Read the full issue here: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

“The Five-Year Anniversary of the Tornado That Took Down Turtle Creek” by Sarah Watkins It was the first time that this city had been featured on national news, but no one wanted to speak. The damage spoke for itself. It was as if the building were run through a mandoline slicer—caved-in ceilings,…

“Mating Ritual” by Steph Auteri Sometimes, if the stars aligned, we’d see them again. By the Sunglasses Hut kiosk. On line at Wetzel's Pretzels or Cinnabon. Sitting at the fountain, flicking pennies into the water.

Thank you @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social for ten incredible years of Impossible Archetype. Truly an impressive accomplishment, a wonderful LGBTQ+ poetry journal, and an incredible opportunity for new and established poets. impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com

“155,000M2 of Shopping, Entertainment and Leisure” by Samuel Prince All that swank and show, the imitation / of riches, gone, not even the fountain can spare a few cents / in its dried-up basin, its limescaled font – all wishes spent.

“Extended Call” by Larissa Hikel Where is the fashion parade, the conveyor belt of available products and prospects, that makes life seem so full of possibilities?

My review of TWINLESS is now up at Film-Forward. film-forward.com/star-reviews... 💚

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“Mallrat Baptism” by Veronica Tucker It had a soundtrack, piped-in pop songs echoing off linoleum, and it had structure. Escalators, maps, food court trays. There were rules we didn’t always follow, but that gave the place a strange kind of order.

My poem, "Ready 2 Wear," is here as part of the Mall Issue of Pine Hills Review. pinehillsreview.com/2025/09/01/j... 🤎

Special Feature: The Mall 🏬 The Mall is the Pine Hills Review special feature of 2025.

My poem, "Roberta," here in the latest of Impossible Archetype. impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social 💜

Everett Blunck shines in GRIFFIN IN SUMMER: film-forward.com/teen/griffin... #glennbening4eva 💜 @film4ward.bsky.social

"To Summer," William Blake. poets.org/poem/summer-2 ☀️

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Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins.

My Film-Forward review of Amy Berg's aching Jeff Buckley documentary. film-forward.com/documentary/... 💙🎵

My poem, "Explorer," in Wayfarer Magazine. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/explorer 🖤

A poem, "Forester." www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/forester 💙

My Film-Forward review Frank Ripploh’s excellent, underseen 1980 landmark queer film TAXI ZUM KLO, newly restored from Altered Innocence: film-forward.com/star-reviews... @film4ward.bsky.social 💙

FOLKTALES is a moving documentary of a folk high school in Arctic Norway. My Film-Forward (@film4ward.bsky.social) review here. film-forward.com/star-reviews... 💙

My review of love story UNICORNS: film-forward.com/glbt/unicorns @unicornsmovieus.bsky.social @film4ward.bsky.social 💙🦄

My review of Paul Vecchiali’s newly restored 1986 film ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE: film-forward.com/foreign/fren... ❤️💙 @film4ward.bsky.social @metrographnyc.bsky.social

Documentary reviews from the Provincetown International Film Festival. film-forward.com/documentary/... 💙🎥

Feature film reviews from the Provincetown International Film Festival: QUEENS OF THE DEAD, JIMPA, and personal fave MESSY. film-forward.com/film-festiva... 🎥💙

My interview with filmmaker Sasha Korbut on his short TO NOVOSIBIRSK: www.jdbrecords.com/2025/07/an-i... 🎥🧡

Excited to announce that I will be illustrating @timmywbooks picture book, “The Missing Piece”. Published by @penguinrandomhouse imprint @rockypondbooks ! ✨⭐️✨ Coming Summer of 2027! ☀️ #books #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks #illustration #childrensbooks #reading #art #puzzles #jigsawpuzzles

Mariah, 1990. 🖤

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Take a look at these rarely seen behind-the-scenes images & film stills as @focusfeatures.bsky.social celebrates 20th anniversary of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain with a nationwide theatrical re-release beginning June 22nd & 25th #BrokebackMountain #lgbtq thequeerreview.com/2025/06/10/b...

“We are drowning in numbers, suffocating under the weight of quantitative measures of our loss, our suffering, our destruction. The tolls outpace my ability to record them.”

My review of GARLAND JEFFREYS: THE KING OF IN BETWEEN is now up at Film-Forward: film-forward.com/documentary/... 🎥🎵💜

Madonna announces release of Ray of Light companion album, Veronica Electronica buff.ly/C6N7zIk

"Anyone who ever let me in his body or arms I still feel grateful to. That's why so many of my friends are old lovers, I suppose. And that includes, these days, dying and dead friends as well, to whom the flesh, my flesh, still connects me." Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, 1988

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

happy pride. buy my book with @willowcatelyn.bsky.social ! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695...

My review of JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE up at Film-Forward (@film4ward.bsky.social‬): film-forward.com/romantic-com... 📚🎥

“The best part about coming home is you” isn’t just a warm closing. It’s the manifesto of a parenting philosophy. “It’s about unconditional love over material things,” he said. “In the whirlwind of figuring out parenting, it’s just so important to be grounded in that.”

I’ve been caught up in a move and a dozen other things so I haven’t shared my poems in the second issue of Kismet, a fantastic journal devoted to spirituality, mysticism, and religion. Here’s one of two, check out the link below!