My poem “Nerve Endings Like Strawberry Runners” has just been published today in the Summer 2015 online issue of Witness Magazine. Thank you Olivia Clare, Joseph Langdon, and the other Witness editors!
Read the poem HERE.
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2 Collaborations in Jam Tarts 1.5
Jam Tarts #1.5 has just been published and it contains two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with the poet Dustin Nightingale: “There, There” and “Eventually I Grew Up.” Check out the poems, and the rest of the issue,HERE!
Poem published in Booth
My poem “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart,” which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize, has been published online today at Booth. Thank you Robert Stapleton, Chris Speckman and the other BoothEditors!
You can read the poem HERE.
Redivider
Thoroughly jazzed to announce that I’ve had a poem accepted for publication by Redivider.
Thanks John Taylor and the other Redivider Editors!
5th Appearance on Verse Daily
My poem “A Theme Song That Never Gets Old” was the featured poem online at Verse Daily on June 11. This poem was originally published by Kill Author, and it appears in my book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, which is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble Online.
Click HERE to read the poem.
Poetry Competition Winner at Columbia Journal
Today I received my contributor’s copy of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art issue 53 which includes my poem, “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like.”
This poem was selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly as the winner of the 2015 Poetry Competition. Thanks so much again to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!
Poetry Editor of decomP
I’m proud as punch to announce that after being the Assistant Poetry Editor at the online literary magazine decomP for a couple years or so, I’ve been promoted to Poetry Editor. Thanks Jason Jordan!
“An Elephant Walks Into a McDonalds” in Boulevard Fall 2015
Today I received the wonderful news that my creative nonfiction essay “An Elephant Walks Into a McDonalds” is slated to appear in the fall 2015 issue of Boulevard Magazine.
Given the endless winters one must suffer through living here in Syracuse, it’s absurd to wish that fall would hurry the hell up. It’s completely preposterous. It’s just silly to wish something like that. Seriously.
The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy is 3 months old!
Three months ago my first book of poetry, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, was published by Steel Toe Books. I’ve made an author page at Amazon to celebrate.
Teaching August 7 – 9 at the 2015 August Occasion
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be on the poetry faculty of the 2015 August Occasion, sponsored by The Downtown Writer’s Center of Syracuse, NY.
Three days of writing workshops, readings, food and inspiring company will take place August 7 – 9 at the beautiful Harding Farm in Clinton, NY. My fellow instructors are Sarah Freligh and Jasmine Bailey (poetry); Sarah Freligh and David Lloyd (fiction); Sarah Freligh, Megan Davidson, and Linda Lowen (creative non-fiction).
Registration is inexpensive and open to the general public. For more info and to register today click HERE.