Poetry. J.J. Blickstein's debut collection, BAREFOOT ON A DRAWING OF THE SUN, is carnivorous and carnivalesque with a quality of imagism. He stretches himself to explore everything about everything, from flowers and weeds to divination, Jazz, the delectations of being a carnivore, and the Multi-Diaspora of his mixed bloodlines. From "Morning Sun:" "Duration & template / the sun is a clock. / I have been awake all night / carving my initials into your sleep / & skull. There is nothing under the bed. / There is a small city underneath your feet carved from wood and painted mute. / There is a stone in your throat resting / where nothing is damaged." Blickstein is the editor of Hunger Magazine.

J.J. Blickstein is a poet, visual artist, & the editor of the now defunct Hunger Magazine. He lives in Upstate New York next to the Esopus River with a lovely biologist and three kids. He works as a stone mason/handyman and occasionally teaches about the tarot. A chapbook, Visions of Salt & Water was published by Bagatela Press (Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, TX, 2003). A book, Barefoot on a drawing of the Sun, was published by Fish Drum Inc. in 2006.