He was born in Queens, NY, and completed his MFA at the University of Houston in 2008. He received an Academy of American Poets Prize that same year and was named a finalist for the Hudson Book Prize. His work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgetown Review, Harpur Palate, The Hollins Critic, Hunger Mountain, Pebble Lake Review and elsewhere.
As if beneath the restorer's slow brush the tank's acidity is managed
Until it comes time to sear the meal to the gills: Tenderness
Begetting freshness: Investments. Goya,
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