I’m reading Saturday May 10 at 7 pm EDT for this benefit for Ukraine. It’s in person here in Syracuse AND available to stream on Zoom (register via the QR code or the link below). Readings from me and Jessica Cuello, Virgie Townsend, Misha Tentser, Tim McCoy, Sara Parrott, Mary Jumbelic, Deb Diemont, Stephen Kuusisto, and Georgia Popoff. Music and singing from a local Ukrainian choir.
Oh.My.Goodness. Poetry Northwest just accepted my long poem “Bone Above Our Heart” one of the poetic experiments I started 2 summers ago, carrying around a special notebook during my travels, collecting images, bits of overheard dialogue, to build a long poem from (it’s 5 pages, which is long for me). I’m over-the-moon to have this poem appear in Poetry Northwest. It’ll be my third appearance in this awesome journal! Thank you so much Bill Carty, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan, Keetje Kuipers, and everyone at PN!
Yippee! Water~Stone Review has accepted my poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles.” Huge thanks to Jose Hernandez, Kayla Knoll, and Meghan Maloney-Vinz.
Last week the collaborative poetry chapbook “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro, had its release reading at the University of Toledo, hosted by Timothy Geiger and his Aureole Press, who created this letterpress printed work of art. I couldn’t be there in body but I was there in spirit. I’m excited to share this chapbook when it becomes available for purchase!
Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!
HUGE congratulations to my sweetie Sarah for having her short story “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly” accepted at Tupelo Quarterly! I’m so proud of you! 👏👏👏👏
The best part of the already amazing Unbound Book Festival? Seeing old friends and making new ones! I didn’t take many photos but here’s John Gallaher and Jenny Molberg in the hotel lobby special chair…and me, Amina Gautier and Gary Jackson sharing our homeward travels, talking writing, teaching, comic books, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and more!
Unbound Book Festival! You were amazing! What a great time I had presenting on my second panel, The Thing with Feathers…about boids! *flap-flap warble-warble* Hosted at the Serendipity Salon. Then doing a book signing at Skylark Bookshop .
Pictured: panelist Lindsey Drager, panelist Noppadol Paothong, moderator Dana Ripper, and panelist me!
Unbound Book Festival! I want to hold you in my heart! What a wonderful time I had presenting on the Bitter Beans panel about coffee, including reading my poem “Coffee Suite” commissioned for the panel!
Moderator: Jessica Vaughn Martin
Panelists: Mark Pendergrast, Heather Webber, and me!
How wonderful! Post Road has accepted my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free.” Thank you so much to Okwudili Nebeolisa and everyone at Post Road Magazine!