Acts of Speech

Acts of Speech is a volume of religious poetry that explores performative, public, and private religious speech and how they construct identity and difference. It blends praise poetry primarily in honor of various Hellenic Gods, including Apollon, the Mousai, Hermes, and Mnemosyne, with more private poems in a tense dance of parasociality and intimacy. Above all, it is a time capsule of experiences frozen in syllable, verse, and image.

Ebook: Gumroad (mobi, pdf, epub) or  most ebook stores. Please use Gumroad’s mobi if you plan to read on an Amazon device.

Print book: Anywhere that sells print books! Just ask them to carry ISBN 9781735740614. Bookshop.org (USA) and Amazon (many countries) will sell this book, too. Here’s a Google search for the ISBN that can help you.

 

Acts of Speech book cover

poems

 

FICTION

Self-Published

  • Epiphany  is my first podcast novel project. It explores loss, grief, and identity. Epiphany is an epistolary political thriller about stopping an assassination attempt.
  • The Waterfall Commune” is a short story in which five twentysomethings conspire to move to a more exciting city in a society where coliving with non-relatives is just not done.
  • Longing for Water” is a short story about a swim competitor trying to woo a ritual officiant at a sacred festival.
  • Gates of Ivory, Gates of Horn” is an own-voices fiction piece about growing up Neopagan, religious violence, and moving beyond trauma.

 

TraditionallY-

Published

  • Ash Shades” in The Society of Misfit Stories Presents … (February 2019)