Absolutely thrilled to receive my contributor’s copy of Columbia Poetry Review issue 29, which contains my poem “Bring Me with You.” Thanks again Cora Jacobs and the other CPR editors!
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2 Collaborative Poems Published in DIAGRAM 16.2
I’m thrilled to share the news that two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale — “And Me with Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” and “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” — have been published today in DIAGRAM 16.2. A big thank you to Ander Monson, EA Ramey, and the rest of the DIAGRAM crew!
Chick HERE to read them.
Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize Finalist
It’s a pleasure to announce that my book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015) was selected as one of four finalists for the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, a post-publication prize from Utica College. Thank you to judge Juliana Gray and to Gary Leising, the prize coordinator. And congratulations to Laura Donnelly, this year’s winner for her book Watershed.
You can purchase a copy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble Online, or direct from the publisher.
Book reviewers may email me directly to request a review copy.
2 Poems Accepted at Slice Magazine!
Delighted to share the news that I’ve just had two poems accepted for Slice Magazine‘s upcoming Distraction theme issue: “A Recognized Maritime Signal for Distress” and “How Is Knowing That Supposed to Help.” Thank you poetry editor Tom Haushalter!
Poems Accepted at Mid-American Review & Sycamore Review!
A great big, dewy-eyed thank you to the editors of Mid-American Review for accepting my poems “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” and “At First It Buzzed Then Even the Buzzing Stopped” and to the editors of Sycamore Review for accepting my poem “It’s Something People In Love Do.” It’s sunny here in Syracuse and the birds in the driveway are singing.
“Beehive Soaked in Tea and How To Leave (Part One)” in Radar Poetry
Hot-diggity what a week! My poem – “Beehive Soaked in Tea and How To Leave (Part One)” – has been published today in Radar. It’s another collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale. It includes an accompanying photograph by Williamson Brasfield and an audio file of us reading the poem, featuring a piano intro/outro composed and performed by my partner Sarah. Issue 10 includes fantastic new work by Daniel Eduardo Ruiz, Sara Biggs Chaney, Clare Paniccia, and others, and Dustin and I are delighted to be a part of it. Thank you Editors Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager!
Read and listen to the poem HERE.
2 Collaborations in JuxtaProse
The good folks at JuxtaProse have just published two of my prose poem collaborations with Dustin Nightingale in their new issue – “Gluing the Teapot Back Together Anyway” and “Run For Your Life But Don’t Forget To Tie Your Shoe.” Thanks Ian Haver, Seth Luke, Ashley Schellhous, and the rest of the JuxtaProse team!
“Setting Things Around Me Free” in Red Paint Hill
My poem “Setting Things Around Me Free” has been published today online in Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal issue 10. It’s another collaborative prose poem in the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale. There’s audio of us reading the poem. We tried something different this time and each read it separately. I recorded Dustin reading over the phone. He asked me to put phone noises at the start of his version so people would know. It’s a beautiful issue as always packed with fantastic poetry and we’re jazzed to be a part of it — thank you Editor Stephanie Bryant Anderson and the whole Red Paint Hill Publishing crew!
Read and listen to the poem HERE.
“The Secret Lives of Little Girls” in The Doll Collection
The snow has melted (again) and in my mailbox I’m delighted to find my contributor copy of The Doll Collection, an anthology of 88 poems about dolls from Terrapin Books, edited by Diane Lockward. In addition to my poem “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” – first published in Subtropics – this beautiful collection contains poetry by Paula Bonhice, Neil Carpathios, Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, Alice Friman, Jeffrey Harrison, Christina Lovin, Denise Low-Weso, Kristine Ong Muslim, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Emma Sovich, Susan Terris, Lee Upton, and many more!
Purchase a print or Kindle copy from Amazon HERE.
Cider Press Review & JuxtaProse
The downside – this is what spring looks like in Syracuse right now.
The upside – thank you to Ruth Foley and the other editors of the Cider Press Review for accepting my poem “But I Live Here (Empty Place).”
And thank you to Ian Haver and the staff of JuxtaProse Literary Magazine for accepting “Gluing the Teapot Back Together Anyway” and “Run for Your Life but Don’t Forget to Tie Your Shoes” – two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.