I'm currently a training candidate in psychoanalysis at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, & living in Berkshire County, MA. I took a Master's from Columbia University, BAs from Boston College, and completed the OYP at Boston Graduate School for Psychoanalysis thereafter. I am founding editor and publisher at FATHOMBOOKS, and a poet from the first.

I've earned fellowships in writing from the Poetry Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center. Additionally, I hold strong creds in higher education and management. For any queries, please mail info@joseph-spece.com.

In what would become the first volume of his Letters, Jung wrote: 'Through careful collaboration, the problem itself becomes changed.'

Volumes
BAD ZOO, FATHOMBOOKS (2018)
Roads, Cherry Grove (2013)

Pieces
“ODETTE.,” SHARKPACK Occasional #5 & Best American Experimental Writing (2020)
two poems, DIAGRAM
“Syfa's Cloak,” Queen Mob's Teahouse
three poems, Poetry
“Owl,” Orion
“On Warner Bros' Wonder Woman (2017),” Berfrois
“A Harvest of Ice,” Berfrois
“Dear Postmodern Girlfriend,” TriQuarterly
“dreamlessness, [i],” SHARKPACK Poetry Review
B. Willow sequence, 3:AM
“good-bye to these chargers,” DIAGRAM

“ODETTE.,” SHARKPACK Annual #5
“Syfa's Cloak,” Queen Mob's Teahouse
“Lacquer Garden” + “Who Was Valus?,” Burning House Press
“Violet Peasant,” amberflora
“Nextsharks,” Hypocrite Reader
“Mr Vorhees,” Haverthorn
“Good-bye to these chargers,” DIAGRAM
“Wolf Under Ether,” Haverthorn
“The Triumph of Herculine Barbin,” Queen Mob's Teahouse
Three poems, The Matador Review
“Lake Room,” Salamander
“A Bathing Ape,” Queen Mob's Teahouse
“Girl,” Hypocrite Reader
“Portait of heart as gypsum rose,” DIALOGIST
“Apothecary Days,” The Bacon Review
“Encounter,” Salamander
Three poems, CartridgeLit
“Among Elks,” Poetry
“What a head have I,” from the e-chap Relentless by Jeff Bezos
“Owl,” Orion
“Kitchen,” AGNI
“Dear Postmodern Girlfriend,” TriQuarterly
B. Willow sequence, 3:AM
“Lascaux,” Poetry
Six poems, Bacon Review
Two poems, DIAGRAM
“About Z,” TriQuarterly
“Queen, you are fathomed,” Poetry
“Hades and the Linguists,” Boston College Magazine
“Clearings,” SLQ
“Valediction,” Orion
“At tea with the Internet,” Berfrois

PROUD FLESH, an archived column at Noble / Gas Qtrly
“dreamlessness, [ii],” Berfrois
“the militant queer goes a-walking,” Best American Experimental Writing
“dreamlessness, [i],” SHARKPACK Poetry Review
“Tedious Callers + Wraiths,” SPR
“D——,” Berfrois
“At the Orangerie,” JERRY Magazine
“Goodbye, Tom Brady,” Female Trouble
“Beckmann's The Night,” SHARKPACK Annual
“A Harvest of Ice,” Berfrois
“the militant queer goes a-walking,” Hypocrite Reader
“Four Questions of Value,” The Review Review
“James Franco’s ‘Directing Herbert White,’” SPR
“In Defense of Studious Leisure,” Queen Mob’s Teahouse
“The Spider in Laura Riding,” SPR
“On #gamergate,” Berfrois
An interview with Alexander Landfair at Guernica
An interview with J.A. Tyler at SmokeLong Quarterly

Stephanie Adams-Santos’ “Through the Long Greenhouse”
Migration notes of the Northern Saw-whet Owl
Francis Bacon’s Study of a Baboon
Garrett Kalleberg’s erstwhile Transcendental Friend
An exemplar of PS3’s epic mid-2000s ad campaign
Jacopo Tintoretto’s The Last Supper