*poet // scholar // critic // pretty flower*
is a writer living in Pittsburgh, but is from Texas the way windmills, dirt, and Dairy Queens are from Texas. His criticism and poetry have appeared in Bookforum, Popula, Spectrum Culture, Loser City, 1966 – A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Burning House Press, Muse/A Journal, and Poets.org. In 2019 he was awarded the Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize. He is currently working on a book about a fire at a gay bathhouse.
“To See a Fine Substance Strangely.” 1966 – A Journal of Creative Nonfiction.
“A Private Trashcan.” Popula.
“A Few Other Voyeurs Were Out That Morning, Watching The Show.” Popula.
“The Morality Wars Revisited.” Bookforum.
“Rachel Cusk’s Heterosexual Fatalism.” Review of Outline, by Rachel Cusk.
“Genius Telos.” Review of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, by David Yaffe. Spectrum Culture.
“A Place of Few Disasters but Even Fewer Escapes.” Review of Exile in the Outer Ring, by EMA. Spectrum Culture.
“The Most Beautiful Parts of the Past.” Review of “Days of Glory,” by SODA lite. Loser City.
“Homoerratica #3 (Apologetics).” Burning House Press.
“Bathhouse #5 (Jerusalem Surge).” Muse/A Journal.
“Self-portrait in Tongues (After Lucie Brock-Broido).” Poets.org.
Joshua Palmer 