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Marie Howe+Alex Dimitrov+Dorothea Lasky

May 2, 6:00 PMCornelia Street Cafe29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014

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Rimbaud 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....

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Louise 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...

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Reading with Marie Howe and Dorothea Lasky

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American 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...

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June 1

American Boys, an e-chapbook by Alex DimitrovOnline June 1

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Reading 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...

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On 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...

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American Boy

"America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel."

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American 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....

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Out 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...

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Jorie 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...

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One American Summer

"'It's a summer day, / and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.'" —Frank O'Hara 

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(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

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Love

“I could never throw Love out of the window.” —Arthur Rimbaud

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Wilde 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

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Your 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....

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At Frank O'Hara's grave

 "Grace to be born and live as variously as possible."

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✝ American Faith ✝

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America, You Darling

I have a new poem, "America, You Darling" up at Tablet. It's about my summer boyfriend: America.xAlex

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For 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...

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✝ America, I'll be your poet ✝

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Poetry 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. 

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Moving 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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Begging for It

My first book, Begging for It: http://tinyurl.com/c3gk4z4

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