Holy moly!!! My second poetry book manuscript has WON the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Thank you judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis! Thank you Dana Curtis! And thank you to everyone who has been supportive and encouraging on my journey to get my second poetry book published–I am truly grateful. It’s so incredibly, heart-thumpingly delightful that “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” has found a home at Elixir Press!!!
My friend (and former student and fellow poetry editor at decomP) Steve Castro has just had his first poetry book published! It’s called Blue Whale Phenomena and it’s been beautifully designed by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions from Otis College of Art and Design. They’ve published tons of great books, including Forrest Gander’s Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century. With a truly unique poetic voice and excitement and surprises that unsettle and delight on every page, this book is one to take with you into the forest.
You can snag a copy from SPD or Amazon.
Gratified to hear that the manuscript of my second poetry book was just named a finalist in the Burnside Review Press Book Contest. Congratulations to the winner Larissa Szporluk!
The public announcement about this year’s Meek Awards from The Florida Review, in which my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” won for the creative nonfiction category. Thank you Florida Review editors for this honor. I’m especially delighted because I’ve never submitted my nonfiction for any awards, and to have received this without entering for it means so much to me. An added jolt of very welcome good creative nonfiction energy!
Fabulous to read last night at the beautiful Brewerton Center for the Arts with wonderful fellow poets Laura Donnelly, Kenneth Nichols, Stephanie Pritchard, Charlie Itzen, Tim McCoy, Devon Moore, and Steve Smith. Let’s hear it for National Poetry Month!
What a delight to hold my rocket-powered contributor copy of Arts & Letters 20th anniversary issue, which contains my poems “The Answer the Question in Your Mind Rosemary” and “Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse.” Thank you Editors Hali Sofala-Jones, Cecilia Woloch, Faith Thompson, Jennifer Watkins, and the rest of the Arts & Letters flight crew! This is such a gorgeous issue!
Welcoming us writers, poets, dancers, artists, choreographers, documentarians to this special place. ❤️
http://ragdale.org/
Unpacking in the “Top of the Stairs,” my room in Ragdale, an arts & crafts house designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw, built in 1897 and home to the Ragdale Foundation, an artists’ retreat and haven for creating.
Salivating over the window seat in my room and the private “treehouse” sleeping porch….
…and the private “treehouse” sleeping porch.
Delighted to receive my contributor copy of Raleigh Review, containing my poems “Dear Diary Where Is Everybody,” “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin,” and “Light at the Beach a Thousand Doctors.” Thank you Poetry Editor Bryce Emley and the rest of the Raleigh Review crew!
I’m thrilled to learn that my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” has been awarded the 2018 Meek Award for Creative Nonfiction from The Florida Review. This award recognizes the best non-contest, non-solicited work published by the journal in 2018. Thank you Lisa Roney and the rest of The Florida Review editors and staff for this honor!
Delighted to learn that my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” has been accepted for Terrapin Books’ anthology A Compendium of Kisses, where it will appear along poems by Dorianne Laux, David Kirby, Tim Seibles, Ellen Bass, Alice Friman, Ron Smith, Charles H. Webb, Jeffrey Harrison, Caitlin Doyle, Kurt Brown, Baron Wormser, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and many others!