Books

My newest book is How to Be Inappropriate.

The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVox Books 2006).

My first book of poems culls from many of the different modes and styles I’ve used over the years: narrative, confessional, list-making, pop culture rants, and ars poeticae. Coming soon: Gene Cawley’s three incredible song poem settings of selections from The History of My World Tonight.
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Anthologies and collections.

Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock Phil Sutcliffe. Voyageur Press, 2009. Review articles on Queen’s The Miracle album as well as Queen + Paul Rodgers’ The Cosmos Rocks.
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Lost and Found: Stories from New York Edited by Thomas Beller. Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood/W.W. Norton, 2009. Two pieces, “The Difference Between Chicken and Goats” and “Revising the Footlicker Story,” appear in this anthology.
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Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers Edited by Sherry Ellis. Tarcher/Pengiun, 2010. An exercise called “Write Your Own White Album” is included.
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The World is a Text: Writing, Reading and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture Edited by Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader. Prentice-Hall, 2009. The third edition of this textbook has two pieces from God Save My Queen, “Another One Bites The Dust” and “We Are The Champions,” appear in this writing guide.
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The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1 Edited by Lee Gutkind. W.W. Norton, 2007. Includes essay “Notes on Frey.”
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Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll Edited by Jonathan Wells, foreword by Bono. New York: MTV Books, 2007. Two pieces from God Save My Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “The Prophet’s Song,” are included in this anthology.
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PP/FF: An Anthology Edited by Peter Conners. Buffalo: Starcherone Books, 2006. Includes piece from God Save My Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
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Isn’t It Romantic? 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets Edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Aimee Kelley. Verse Press, 2003. “Third Maisie Poem” appears in this anthology.
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Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasure of the Pixels Edited by Shanna Compton. Soft Skull Press, 2004. Includes “Are You Hot Enough to Play With Journey? Todd Rogers Is.”
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The Best American Poetry 2003 Edited by Yusef Komunyakaa, Series Editor David Lehman. Scribner, 2004. “Poem for the Novelist Whom I Forced to Write a Poem” was selected for this anthology.
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The Portable Literature Edited by Laurie G. Kirsner and Stephen R. Mandell. Heinle, 2003. “Pay-Per-View Etude” is included in this literature text.

Limited-edition collections.

The Morning News Annual 2008 Edited by Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack. “Takin’ Care of Jesus” appears in this anthology.

Fragmentia Chapbook from Rock Heals Press–number rhp005 in their “big package tiny chap series.” Out of print.

Tales from Johnsonia Big Game Books, 2006. Tinyside #8. Out of print.

Percapella, an ongoing collaboratation with Christopher Connelly. Half Empty/Half Full chapbook (out of print), facsimile edition, and other stuff.

Readings @ The Contemporary, 2004-2005 No. 2 in Observable series, 2006. Out of print.

The Aubergine Anthology Edited by Joshua Corey. Ithaca: 2004. Out of print.