I’ve written a memoir! A transformational seven year journey hunting for memories.
I completed the book in March and submitted it as my thesis for a master’s degree in creative writing and literature at Harvard’s extension division.
There’s a lot of music in the book. Here’s a playlist I made containing all the music mentioned or discussed in the book.
Francis Mason, the editor of Ballet Review, asked me to write a piece about collaborating with choreographers. It was published in the Spring 2007 issue. Here are a few scans of the print version of Ballet Review 35.1, including my essay,
When I was studying at Brandeis University in 1991 I was lucky enough to find a writing class taught by the poet Olga Broumas. I was exposed to some brilliant poets like W.S. Merwin and Li-Young Lee. I was hungry to read new writing and found, on the shelves of Booksmith in Coolidge Corner, The Quarterly, edited by Gordon Lish. I sent a few poems in for consideration and received them all back with a handwritten note attached to a stack of them that said, “Not good.” Mr. Lish did offer to publish one of the six poems I submitted. He would include “Love” in the next issue if I would agree to replace one word as he had marked in red pen. Of course, I agreed to the edit. Here are scans from issue 24, Winter 1992:
