What a delight to learn that the awesome Bat City Review has accepted “Look! Fruit!” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Huge thanks to Poetry Editor Luci Arbus-Scandiffio and the rest of the Bat City Review crew!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be Zoom-reading poetry Fri Dec 10 along with the awesome Mary Biddinger, Noah Falck, Jessica Q. Stark & Issam Zineh for the David Has Zoom Pro For a Few Months Reading Series! Join us!
Register for the reading here: https://bit.ly/3DTsp2J
I’m teaching a Zoom class on how to submit your creative writing to literary journals (basically the basics), hosted by the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard this Thursday 4:30 – 6pm. This is free and open to the public! You can get the zoom link and further info on the library’s events calendar: https://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/how-to-submit-to-literary-journals-webinar/
My lyric essay “Licked By Our World We Get Licked By Our World” just got published in the new online issue of Bellingham Review! I’m so excited to share this with you all. This is the final essay in my Four Classical Elements series. It’s the water essay, and includes 4000 words on the times I almost drowned, life in the deepest oceans, collecting water from famous places, fish I have known, a diary entry from when I was 15, Altered States, Jaws, Howie Mandel, Close Encounters of the Third Kind…just to name a few. A thousand thanks to all the great folks at Bellingham Review, including B. Woods, Suzanne Paola, and Caity Scott!
Read it HERE!
I just uploaded to my YouTube page a short video I made in June 2021 of me reading my poem “Like a River Stood on End,” which was first published in Cherry Tree issue 7. I hope you enjoy it.
You can read the text of the poem HERE.
And yes, an owl really did attack my head while walking in the woods. Twice. I chose to take it as a compliment.
On this 7 month birthday of my new poetry book, I’m delighted to receive the news that I’ll be reading from it for the awesome Sundress Reading Series, probably in December 2021–I’ll post more info as the date nears. Thanks so much to Erin Elizabeth Smith and the Sundress crew. I’m thrilled to read as part of this awesome reading series!
Ever wanted a 1.5 hour interview of me lipping off in depth about composing and revising my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” from my book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun? Along with oodles of nitty-gritty poetry writing talk–daily practices, radical free-writing, quelling the inner critic, lineation, creating stanzas, titling? Along with a little Dog Day Afternoon and Goodfellas content? Well, you’re in luck. One just got posted today on YouTube by 1-Week Critique.
Huge thank you to Matthew Schmidt and the awesome gang at 1-Week Critique! This conversation was such a pleasure, and I’m thrilled to share it with you!
I’m delighted to be teaching a one-off generative Zoom workshop on Voice in poetry, as part of the Literary Bit of Reflection Festival run by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council in Oxford, Mississippi!
I’m teaching the same class twice, at noon on October 29 and at 3:30 on October 30. It costs only $5 to attend. Come on by!
To register visit https://oxfordarts.com/literarybitof
Huge sparkly thank yous to Sara Walker and The Superstition Review for posting about my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! They included a the title poem and a video of me reading other two poems from the book.
https://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/when-life-gives-you-lemons/
Spine-tinglingly thrilled to receive the news that The Los Angeles Review has accepted my poem “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Rest of Your Life.”
