Mothers Ask ‘May I’ Too
There was a time in my life when I wanted to climb the corporate latter, at least, the organizational one. I was willing to do this because it meant more money. Meanwhile my wife...
Category: Poet of Indian Origin
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, or #Bard154
This year I have been reducing all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets (14-line poems) into quatrains of 140 characters each. On Monday I tweeted them (for Twitter’s specifications I had to reduce them to 136...
How to Find Invincibility
Find the answer on my Tumblr blog. https://joshuagraypoetics.tumblr.com/post/131687355766/10-years-of-invincibility-part-i Please go to joshuagraypoetics.tumblr.com and follow my blog there for the second part, to be posted tomorrow.
Freak Out! An art exhibit
A poem of mine will be included in a multimedia art and poetry exhibit in Chicago about disco! Freak Out, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, April 15 2016
Hourglass Museum and the timeless art of life
Hourglass Museum by Kelli Russell Agodon appears to be a book of poetry based on art — and it is, but it is also so much more. It is a book about life and...
American Galactic lands close to home
American Galactic by Laura Madeline Wiseman is a fun, well-written book that takes issues and events of everyday life and gives them a sci-fi twist. The cover of the book, an image of martians...
Press Release: Red Dashboard publishes Steel Cut Oats
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Red Dashboard Press announces release of Steel Cut Oats by Joshua Gray April 12, 2015 Washington DC — Red Dashboard Press is pleased to announce the release of Steel Cut Oats,...
Blurb for Steel Cut Oats
As my new book Steel Cut Oats nears completion of production, I have received a blurb from another poet. Very nice words, indeed! Steel Cut Oats is not a cookbook. It is a book...
Letter To Poetry
Keya is a high school student who had an assignment in her poetry class: write a letter to poetry. But never mind that this was a school assignment, because her letter is something I...
Poetry FAIL
Warning. This is a rant. I am getting really tired of physical bookstores — the kind with a front door and shelves and an actual counter you walk up to in order to buy...