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View ArticleRimbaud in New York
I wrote this short piece for Poetry Daily and Paul Legault translated the Rimbaud poem I refer to in it. It's a story about first moving to New York and reading Rimbaud. It's a story about love really....
View ArticleLouise Glück at Wilde Boys
It's been three years since I began hosting the Wilde Boys salons. Last night was a very special evening. Louise Glück came to the salon. We talked about her incredible body of work and she also read...
View ArticleAmerican Boys
American Boys, an e-chapbook by Alex Dimitrov. 8 new poems, 3 Grindr screencaps, 2 text message screencaps, 1 Facebook screencap, 1 OkCupid screencap. Online June 1 at Floating Wolf Quarterly.America...
View ArticleReading with Paul Legault on June 10
Paul Legault and I are reading together at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY, on June 10.I'll be reading from my e-chapbook, American Boys, which will be available online June...
View ArticleOn Wilde Boys and everything else
So much attention and controversy have swirled around me and Wilde Boys in the last months that I want to say something—especially after The New York Times Style section article and the recent...
View ArticleAmerican Boys, an echapbook
I think of a chapbook as the equivalent to an EP by my favorite band, and a full length book as an LP. The poems in this echapbook, American Boys, were written between November 2011 and March 2012....
View ArticleOut Magazine Hot List
Thank you to Out Magazine for including me on their 2012 Hot List."Whether it was Rimbaud flitting about 19th-century Europe or Allen Ginsberg pacing the pavement of 1950s New York, there's been a...
View ArticleJorie Graham at Wilde Boys
Last night Jorie Graham came to Wilde Boys to talk about her new book of poems, Place, and I also spoke to her about a variety of topics like poetic form, being awake and present in the world, writing...
View ArticleOne American Summer
"'It's a summer day, / and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.'" —Frank O'Hara
View Article(Candy) Darling
"I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece." —Andy Warhol
View ArticleWilde Boy or Material Girl
“They can beg and they can plead but they can't see the light.'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mister Right.” —Wilde Boy or Material Girl
View ArticleYour Life: 13 Portraits of People I Don't Know from the Internet
Dear Reader,I need your help to write 13 poems. In my mind, these currently unwritten poems are part of something tentatively called: Your Life: 13 Portraits of People I Don’t Know from the Internet....
View ArticleAmerica, You Darling
I have a new poem, "America, You Darling" up at Tablet. It's about my summer boyfriend: America.xAlex
View ArticleFor Sontag
"Whenever speech or movement or behavior or objects exhibit a certain deviation from the most direct, useful, insensible mode of expression or being in the world, we may look at them as having a...
View ArticlePoetry Foundation covers Glück at Wilde Boys
Jeffrey McDaniel wrote about the night Louise Glück came to Wilde Boys for the Poetry Foundation. Check it out.
View ArticleMoving to alexdimitrov.tumblr.com
Hey everyone! It's been a lot of fun connecting with you guys here but I'm moving to alexdimitrov.tumblr.com and no longer updating here. Please join me over there!x Alex
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