Marvelous Verses

It started as something fun. The Daily Drunk, a lit mag who specializes in merging pop culture and writing, was putting together an anthology about Marvel superheroes and villains. I was interested, but the day job was getting crazy, and I didn’t have much creative juice in the evenings. But a poem about Kitty Pryde kept rattling around in my head. So, at the very last minute, I began to jot down images about what might happen when Kitty Pryde phases through a wall. I’m pleased to say that that the poem was selected for the anthology. It’s a wonderful collection. There’s so many poems about famous and infamous characters with topics ranging from climate change to moral ambiguity to existentialism.

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Unfortunately, this poem is not available online, however I did have the opportunity to perform it at the launch party (my first and only reading of the year) which can be found here. Skip to 1:06:54 to watch my Marvel-inspired poem “When Kitty Pryde Phases Through a Wall.”

“Fiberglass slips

by the tongue,

drywall dust -

a speck

through the eye.”

“When Kitty Pryde Phases Through a Wall” in Marvelous Verses.