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Here's a PORTFOLIO for your perusal,
containing poetry, film criticism,
blog posts, essays, even a couple of
Letterboxd reviews; copy is copy!
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buy my poetry chapbook
      MY HOUSE BUT NOT MY HOUSE
                   from Cactus Press!
  (second printing now available)
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(2026.08.24)

I am currently editing my second
poetry collection MONDO TOMORROW,
which will be released this December
by the fine folks at CACTUS PRESS!
Stay tuned for more news on
that front.
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    * * * CURRENT  PROJECTS * * *    
Accent Open Mic
    A multilingual poetry open mic
    I help co-host. Join us on the
    first and third Sundays of every
    month at Bar Le Record in scenic
    Villeray, Montréal.
Ahead on Differential
    A sporadically-updated
    repository of things I find cool
    or interesting. The kids call it
    a "blog." You can get my posts
    as newsletter by signing up
    right here. Est. 2018.
Dim the House Lights
    Bespoke artisanal small-batch
    film criticism, fresh from
    our brains to your screen.
    Dormant but never dead.
    Est. 2014.
laserdisc.party
    A tiny movie-centric Mastodon
    instance that I run.
    Est. 2018
	
    * * *       POETRY      * * *        
PUBLISHED
Chapbooks
    MY HOUSE BUT NOT MY HOUSE
      (Cactus Press, 2021)

Black Sails
    "Characteristics"
    "Hues"
Lantern Magazine
    "Brain Sieve"
    "Dream #9 (The Book on a Chain)"
    "On An Island"
    "Oxblood"
The Pit
    "ALL MY HOMIES HATE HAMSTERS:
      A RAT-IFESTO" (Issue #7)
    "Checking In" (Issue #5)
    "Letterboxd Review of
      Kevin's Funeral" (Issue #5)
    "The Office" (Issue #5)
    "You Are Now Entering:
      Burst City (1982)" (Issue #4)
The Snake Post Office Post
    "Five Minutes to Closing"
Soliloquies Anthology
    "The Ferryman Wears Denim Pants"
      (Issue 30.2)

UNPUBLISHED
    Poetry/Flash Fiction Variety Pak!

    * * * ELSEWHERE  ONLINE * * *    
Instagram
Letterboxd
Medium
	
    * * *  THE  BACKBURNER  * * *    
Film Criticism
    Montreal Schlock City [2015-2017]
Podcasts
    The Field Guide to Canadiana
    Middlebrow Madness
    Stuck in the Middle With You

    * * *      BYLINES      * * *    
Dim the House Lights
Paracinema
Sound on Sight/PopOptiq
Vague Visages

    * * *   LISTS & MISC.   * * *    
Buzz Bombs: The Room,
Snakes on a Plane, and Cult
Audiences in the Internet Era
    (my MA thesis from 2013)
My 200 Favourite Albums [as of 20.12.08]

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