I’m thumpingly thrilled to have received my contributor copies of the summer issue of Pleiades, which contains my poem, “I Smell the Earth All Around Me and Above,” along with amazing work by wonderfuls such as Michael S Bazzett, John Taylor, Erin Hoover, JP Grasser, Lisa Russ Spaar, Kyle McCord, Adam Tavel, Chelsea Hrechuk Dingman, Lily Hoang, and more–holy moly! Huge thank yous to Jenny Molberg, Phong Nguyen, and the rest of the Pleiades crew!
My short lyric essay 900’33” — composed of what I heard on the day of June 21, 2018 — has just been published on Ander Monson’s Essay Daily. Visit the link HERE and scroll down to find it.
Thank you to my friends and family who graciously answered the phone last Thursday to answer my question, “What’s the best thing you heard today?”
Thank you to Ander Monson and Will Slattery for coming up with this great project of having people write essays on what happened to them on June 21, 2018.
I am loop-de-loop delighted to share the publication of my poem “Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us” in the new issue of blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. It’s an honor and a joy to have my poem appear in this issue alongside work by the likes of Kaveh Akbar, Roy Bentley, Michelle Boisseau, Victoria Chang, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Iain Haley Pollock, Nancy Reddy…to name just a few. Thank you to Brandie Gray, Victoria C. Flanagan, and the rest of the blackbird crew!
Read the poem HERE.
On a beautiful Tuesday evening, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing is treated to the fabulous short stories of fiction instructors Randi Beck and Phong Nguyen.
And with the traditional elderflower wine toast the 9th annual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing gets joyfully underway tonight with a reading by Director Alexander Weinstein from his book Children of the New World. Skol!
I’ll be teaching Tuesday and Wednesday and giving a reading Thursday night!
My friend and poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale’s chapbook Ghost Woodpecker has just been published by BatCat Press. It’s his first book and it’s one of those you’ll want to hold close to your skin, like under your shirt when it starts to rain. The poems are very, very short. They’ll break your heart, make you laugh, and provide you with the kind of dirty light we need to navigate our subterranean corridors. This letter-pressed volume, handset with vintage metal type, hand-printed and -bound, features a different found film slide embedded in the cover of each unique copy. So it’s also a work of art on that level.
What a thrill to receive my contributor issue of the Southern Indiana Review, which contains, “A Small Choir of Sour Voices” and “I Am a Speaker You Are Vibrating,” two collaborative prose poems I’ve written with Dustin Nightingale. The issue also contains three of Dustin’s own personal prose poems! It’s a massive joy to share this issue with the likes of Erika Meitner, Susannah Nevison, Ashley M. Jones, Kat Finch, and Liz A. Johnson and more! A thousand thousand thanks to Marcus Wicker, Ron Mitchell, and the rest of the good folks at SIR!
I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of the spring issue of North American Review, which contains my poems “On a Foreign Planet Surrounded by Sugar Maples” and “Bats and Applesauce.” I’m delighted to share these pages with the likes of Nicole Cooley, Todd Davis, Martín Espada, Stephen Gibson, Tobias Wray, and so many others. Thank you so much to Rachel Morgan and the rest of the NAR crew!
I’m delighted to share the news that I’ve been asked to be the guest poetry editor for the next issue of Stone Canoe. From now until July 8 we’ll be reading poetry for issue 13 to appear in 2019. I’m thrilled to join the team for the next issue and excited to read what you have to send us!
Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, was founded at Syracuse University’s University College, and is now published by The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center, at the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse.
In order to be eligible to submit, you must have a first-person connection to Upstate New York, but the poems submitted can be about anything at all. The work does not need to involve New York State. For simplicity’s sake, we current define “Upstate” as that portion of the state which is outside of New York City and Long Island. Examples of qualifying connections include but are not limited to: being born here, even if you moved away later; going to college at an upstate school such as SUNY Binghamton, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, etc.; working in the area currently or at some point in the past.
Purchase copies of the most recent issues HERE.
Submit your work HERE!
Wednesday evening I had the honor and delight to receive a 2018 Residence Hall Association Professor Recognition Award for being an outstanding educator at SUNY Oswego. Thank you to Richard Kolenda, Jacob Gardner, and most of all to my students!
