Visiopoetics

Artwork is oils on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas, currently on display at the U.Va. Climatology Office.

As I report for Demockeracy this week, India declares war on the U.S. and would like to speak with your supervisor.

Artwork is oils on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas, currently on display at the Inn Store of the Boar’s Head Inn.

EXIT

+ IRAQ

———

SOON

To those who say exit is not a viable solution, I point out that this alphametic has 116 solutions in base 10. Maximize IRAQ.

As this week’s featured artist on What to Wear During an Orange Alert?, I’m very grateful to Jason - art editor, writer, and Illinoiac extraordinaire - for taking the time to ask me a few questions, compile this wonderful interview, and give my work a wider audience.

The interview couldn’t have run at a better time: tomorrow at 7 p.m., the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review debuts with a reading at UT-Austin. The issue contains my first print-published poem, “Nurse Rear I’m,” which is also a song (”Egress”) and several graphics.

As I report for Demockeracy this week, increased biofuel production from food crops is largely responsible for skyrocketing global food prices.

“Wildflower stems, ginger, and salt” is mixed media on a flatbed scanner.

How happy am I that my poem, essay, and song entries resulted in a free share of glorious Horse & Buggy Produce for me and my mouths?

Let’s just say the girth of my smile is best expressed in a large pile of freshly husked corn.

And my gratitude is berry peachy.

(Pictured: fresh, local blueberries, beets, peach, and corn, followed by fruit smoothie - a small sampling of the bounty I trucked home last week, at my first pick-up.)

NIGHT

+ LIGHT

———–

HELLER

Assume base 10 and enjoy Mos Def.

Artwork is oils on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas.

As I report for Demockeracy this week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management halts the creation of new solar power plants on federal land, because our energy policy as a whole is already safe and effective.  In other news, lame duck syndrome is sweeping the nation, Bush leaves office with a bang, and Hillary is still right (handed).

“Cheney at Chesapeake,” featuring mixed media such as a scythe-shaped bit of broken glass and birdshot embedded in oils on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas, is the political satire website’s cover art this week.