The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center has just published an in depth interview with me about my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! Thank you so much Jon Riccio for the wonderful questions! Get ready for: quasars, black bears, Three’s Company, Mole people, The Denial of Death, Cab Calloway, naked hijinks, a laundry dryer that plays Schubert, a writing prompt, spelunking, Otis Redding, etc…. I hope you all can give it a read!
My awesome partner’s awesome short story just got nominated for Best of the Net by Guesthouse! Congratulations sweetie!
What a delight to learn that the mighty Broadsided Press is going to publish an anthology of their first 15 years of poetic and artist collaboration (felicitations!) AND to learn that it will contain the broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That” which they published back in 2012, illustrated by the amazing Amy Meissner. Huge thank you to Editors Elizabeth Bradfield, Miller Oberman, and Alexandra Teague!
You can read/print the original broadside for free HERE.
Three collaborative prose poems that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale just got published in the new issue of The Rupture (formerly The Collagist). Thank you so much to Gabriel Blackwell, Marielle Prince, and the rest of the good folk at The Rupture!
I’m so happy to receive my contributor copy of the newest New Poetry from the Midwest anthology, which contains my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun,” the title poem for my second book of poetry which came out this April from Elixir Press. How grand to share this beautiful space with so many poets and friends I admire. Thank you to series editors Rita Mae Reese and Hannah Stephenson!
After a little hiatus on our poetry collaboration project, Dustin Nightingale and I started back up earlier this year and what a thrill it’s been to have had 4 of our poems accepted at 2 journals over the last week! I posted yesterday about The Rupture. Today we learned that New South has taken “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” – one of my personal favorites. Maybe someday someone will want our book manuscript?! Huge thank you to Caroline Chavatel and the crew of New South!
Delighted to learn that The Rupture has accepted three collaborative prose poems I’ve written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Mushroom Now and Then Pushing Through the Needles,” “Taking One Spoon of Earth,” and “Wispy and Withstanding Storms.” Huge thanks to Marielle Prince and the rest of the good The Rupture people!
Here’s a poem of mine they published back in 2016 when they were called The Collagist
I’m teaching a generative poetry workshop tomorrow Wed July 27 from 4:30-6 pm EDT. Register for the free zoom event via the email address in the poster! Thanks to the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard for hosting! Come on down and let’s write some poems!
I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of The Open Page, the new anthology of creative writing exercises and poems, fictions, and essays from the faculty of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. I have a poetry exercise (and some poems) and a lyric essay exercise (and a whole lyric essay) in it. Plus there’s TONS of awesome stuff by so many of my fellow MVICW faulty! Get yourself a copy and write write write!
Get yerself a copy HERE!
The awesome list of contributors include: Tony Ardizzone, Ruth Awad, Bradley Bazzle, Christopher Citro 😀, Tia Clark, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Matthew Gavin Frank, John T Howard, Michael Kardos, Keith Leonard, Amelia Martens, Michael Martone, Amy Meng, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Phong Nguyen, Randi Beck Ocena, Catherine Pierce, Wendy Rawlings, Robert James Russell, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Britton Shurley, Keith Taylor, Samantha Tetangco, Samrat Upadhyay, Alexander Weinstein, and Kea Wilson!
My new poetry book is three months old today! I celebrated by mailing out another batch of signed books. Huge thanks to everyone who’s ordered one! 😀 If YOU want a signed copy of IF WE HAD A LEMON WE’D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN, visit the books page of my website or this LINK. 🍋🌞