I’ve got three poems, all sonnets, in the MiniGames issue of the minison zine, as well as a new installment of my “Level Up Your Poetry” essay series for Sidequest, this one on prose poetry and liminality. 

“Zelda II Bossfight” is a Petrarchan sonnet about my some of my favorite characters from my favorite video game.  “Manipulator” is a Spenserian sonnet about the fascinating game Braid.  “The Boy of My Vegas Dreams” is a Shakespearean sonnet about puppy love set against a backdrop of 8-bit casino shenanigans and flirtations.  (Wow, that last one is a sentence I wasn’t expecting to write today…) 

Sonnets aside, I’ve had prose poetry on the brain recently, and it seemed a fitting topic for a new essay for Sidequest.  In “Level Up Your Poetry, Part 4: Games, Prose Poems, and Liminality,” I dig into some quirks that make video games and prose poetry apt partners in art and discuss a few approaches I’ve taken in this realm. 

On the horizon is the release of Discover Beaverton, and I’ll have some news about a reading coming up.