I am pleased to announce that I will be reading my poetry February 9, 2013 as part of the Deep Fried Reading Series in Rochester, NY. The series is curated by Albert Abonado, editor of The Bakery. My fellow readers that evening will be Donora Hillard, and Tony Leuzzi.
You can find further information about the reading via the Readings link at the top of this page.
Today I received my contributor copy of The Los Angeles Review, Volume 12, and it’s a wonderful collection. In addition to my poem, “And We Make It Home Eventually,” this issue contains poems by Nancy Carol Moody, Gregory Sherl, David Wagoner, fiction by Ron Carlson and Robert Lopez, an essay/review by Mitchell L.H. Douglas, and lots more excellent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Thank you Tanya Chernov, Kelly Davio, and The Los Angeles Review!
I am overjoyed to share the news that Salamander has just accepted one of my poems for their Summer 2013 issue.
Painted Bride Quarterly #85 has just been published online, and it contains my two prose poems “This Year Will Be Your Last” and “On Top of an Already Losing Personality” along with a ton of wonderful poems, short stories, and essays, including poems by Doug Ramspeck and Arlene Ang, and an essay by Mary Austin Speaker. Thank you PBQ!
I’ve just received my contributor’s copy of Yemassee 19.2 which contains the collaborative prose poem “Little Buzzings” I wrote with the poet Dustin Nightingale. Our poem isn’t available to read online, but you can listen to Dustin read some of his poems on my old radio show The Poets Weave. Thanks Yemassee!
My prose poems “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” and “New Year’s Resolution TBA” have just been published online at SCUD. You can read the poems here.
Thank you Brad Liening and SCUD!
My poems “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” have just been published by The Bakery, with audio of me reading in my backyard complete with crows cawing and dogs barking.
If you haven’t yet visited The Bakery, you’ll want to. They publish a piping hot poem every day of the week, by the likes of Matthew Cooperman, Joshua Young, Nick Sturm, Rob MacDonald, K.M.A. Sullivan & Nate Pritts, plus Monthly Specials such as October’s with Timothy Liu. The Bakery is edited by Albert Abonado. Thanks Al!
My poem “I Keep a List of What I Must” has just been published on The 22 Magazine Blog.
You can read the poem here.
This poem is from the manuscript-in-process of my untitled second book of poetry. (My first, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, hasn’t found a publisher yet, but I’m pressing on regardless.) It’s built around poems begun during my five month stint living with my girlfriend and our black cat in an apartment over Main Street in a very small Ohio village (pop. 800) last year, moving in the day before Fall Festival and out the day after Xmas.
I am very excited about the poems I’m working on for my second book, and this is the first one of them to see the light of print. Others so far are forthcoming from journals such as Salamander, The Southeast Review, and The Los Angeles Review and an anthology of literature about Southern Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios.
Today the mailman brought me my copy of On the Cusp no. 5 in which I have two poems, “She Rattles Dishes” and “Grasslands.” The theme of this issue is Hunt. You can purchase a copy for five bucks by going here. On the Cusp is a collaborative zine based in Chicago with elegance and beauty — the full color art in this issue is really wonderful, especially Clare Vernon’s exquisite photograph of a doe curled in the bed of a pickup truck. I hope it was only sleeping there. Their next issue’s theme is Who. Thanks Rachel, Clare & Wesley!
To my delight, in the last week I have had two poems accepted by The Bakery and one by The 22 Magazine Blog. Autumn is good.