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.


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.


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.

Limited-edition collections.

Fragmentia.
Chapbook from Rock Heals Press--number rhp005 in their "big package tiny chap series."

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

Percapella, an ongoing collaboratation with Christopher Connelly. Open this new window to hear the "Skanky Tots" song poem, learn about the Half Empty/Half Full chapbook, the free facsimile edition, and other stuff.

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

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


 

Books.
My newest book is How to Be Inappropriate.

Newer items are to your right; books and older items appear below.

God Save My Queen: A Tribute and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On (Soft Skull Press 2003, 2005).

My first two books are collections of lyrical essay, memoir, prose poem, and music history on my life-long obsession with the rock band Queen. Throughout these two volumes, I write one piece, or riff, to coincide with every song ever released by the band, plus selected solo work.
These books, published by the super awesome Soft Skull Press, were reviewed in publications both large and tiny.

God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On.
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God Save My Queen: A Tribute
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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. Go to this new window to listen to Gene Cawley's three incredible song poem settings of selections from The History of My World Tonight.

Anthologies and collections.


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


The World is a Text: Writing, Reading and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture
, 3rd Edition. Edited by Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader. Prentice-Hall, 2009. Two pieces from God Save My Queen, "Another One Bites The Dust" and "We Are The Champions," appear in this writing guide.


The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1
. Edited by Lee Gutkind. W.W. Norton, 2007. The essay "Notes on Frey" is included here.


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.


PP/FF: An Anthology
. Edited by Peter Conners. Buffalo: Starcherone Books, 2006. A piece from God Save My Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody," is included in this anthology.


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.


Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasure of the Pixels. Edited by Shanna Compton. Soft Skull Press, 2004. "Are You Hot Enough to Play With Journey? Todd Rogers Is" is included in this anthology.


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.


The Portable Literature.
Edited by Laurie G. Kirsner and Stephen R. Mandell. Heinle, 2003. "Pay-Per-View Etude" is included in this literature text.