Ink

Poet

Monmouth Junction, NJ
New Jersey US
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Author's Bio

Balancing a taste for all things caffeinated with a thorough knowledge of how to waste time, Ink (he/him) stains the pages of online and print periodicals periodically and often performs at open mics of ill repute in the NY/NJ/PA area. He founded Stanza Cannon, an online journal for oral poetry, and has chapbooks out via Finishing Line Press (61 Central), Back Room Poetry (The Vessel of the Now), and Alien Buddha Press (Pining). Ink’s full-length poetry collections include Death Loves a Drinking Game (Piscataway House Press) and Miserable with Fire. He is currently shopping around his latest flip-chap, content to suffer, and working on two full-length collections: "The Sweet Release of Breath" and "delInkuencies: Legacies, Corruptions, & Future Shame."

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
The Alien Buddha Loves You (Alien Buddha Press, 2024)
Chapbooks:
Pining (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
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The Vessel of the Now (Back Room Poetry, 2023)
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61 Central (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
Journals:
Bullshit Lit
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Edison Literary Review
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Journal of New Jersey Poets
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Moss Puppy Magazine
, ,
SOUP CAN Magazine
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Stanza Cannon
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Syncopation Literary Journal
,
Vocivia Magazine
Prizes won: 

Nominated four times for Asbury Park Poet Laureate.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Bob Hicok, Nicelle Davis, Charles Bukowski, Lucille Clifton, Taha Muhammad Ali, W. S. Merwin, Saul Williams, Idra Novey, Sarah Lindsay, e. e. cummings, Matthea Harvey, Josh "dogmatic" Matson, Ada Limon, Gregory Orr, Neil Gaiman, Bud Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Italo Calvino, Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, and so many more...
What I'm reading now: 
Jackleg Opera by B. J. Ward

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Wilmington, DE
Delaware
Raised in: 
Dayton, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Nov 16, 2025