My friend and oft poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale types poems on demand at this year’s gala fundraiser for the Mark Twain House in Hartford Connecticut. (Photos by Sean Patrick Fowler.)
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Pushcart Prize Nomination from Raleigh Review!
My poem “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin” has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize by the Raleigh Review, where it appeared in their Spring 2019 issue. Thanks so much Bryce Emley and the rest of the Raleigh Review crew!
You can read the poem for free online in the archive for the issue HERE.
Fall Visiting Writer at Cayuga College!
Thank you to Mark Montgomery and Richard Bower for inviting me to be this fall’s Visiting Writer at Cayuga College, a tradition going back more than 30 years and including the likes of writers like George Saunders and Robert Bly. I had a blast reading my poems for the students, responding to their thoughtful questions, sharing a craft essay, talking about publishing, and doing some writing together. Such a full and inspiring experience. Thank you most of all to the students of Cayuga Community College, at both the Auburn and the Fulton Campuses. Your smiles and generosity warmed my way through this early winter deep freeze!
My Lyric Essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” Accepted by the Bellingham Review
I’m thrilled to share the news that my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” has been accepted by the Bellingham Review. I’ve long loved this literary journal and their commitment to lyric and hybrid essays. It’s such a delight that they’ll be publishing this essay.
It’s the last of my four essays inspired by the four classical elements to have found a home–this is my water essay and touches on Jaws, Altered States, fishing, drowning, the Bermuda Triangle, etc. Now I need to finish the last two essays of my following series based on the four fundamental forces in physics. I’m currently knee deep in the Strong Force and have to find a 4000 word essay inside the *gulp* 14,000 words of rough draft I’ve so far spun.
“As if it Didn’t Need Me” Published in DIAGRAM
Now that the best holiday of the year is over, we have to find things to keep ourselves occupied. Maybe this will help. My poem “As If It Didn’t Need Me” has just been published in the new issue of DIAGRAM. Thank you to the always amazing Ander Monson, Rafael Gonzalez, and the rest of the DIAGRAM crew! Check out the whole wonderful issue 19.5 for your post-Halloween good times!
Read my poem HERE.
3 Collaborative Prose Poems Just Published in Bear Review
Three prose poems from my collaborative project with Dustin Nightingale have just been published online in the new issue of Bear Review. Thank you to editors Marcus Myers, Ruth Williams, Haines Eason, and Andrew Reeves for giving a home to “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake.”
Read the poems HERE.
“Calling for One Another When We’re Right There” in The Cortland Review
I’m thrilled to have my poem “Calling for One Another When We’re Right There” appear in the new issue of The Cortland Review just published…including audio of me reading the poem. These good folks were kind enough to have published my poem “Help! I’m Floating!” in issue 46 way back in 2010. Thank you Christian Gullette and the rest of the Cortland Review crew.
Read/listen to the new poem HERE!
“Spoiled Persimmons Crash Against the Opening” and “Water Falling Down” published in diode issue 12.2
My poems “Spoiled Persimmons Crash Against the Opening” and “Water Falling Down” have just been published in diode issue 12.2. And what a table of contents! My poems and I would be honored if you’d give ‘em a look-see. Thank you Patty Paine and diode!
Read the poems HERE.
Thank you, Laurel Review!
What a beautiful graphic the good folks at The Laurel Review made today for these lines from my poem, “Right Like Yellow Along a Banana,” which they were kind enough to publish in issue 49.2.
You can read the whole poem online HERE.
“It Worked Out a Way to Survive” and “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” published at Hobart!
My poems “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” and “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” have just been published today online at Hobart! Thank you to Jessie Knoles and the rest of the Hobart staff!
Read ‘em HERE!