I’m excited to announce that six prose poems from my unpublished chapbook manuscript “The Little Book of Monsters” have just been published online at Used Furniture Review.
A letterpress printed broadside of another poem from this manuscript (it has a zombie in it) is available for $3.50 from Architrave Press.
Boo.
I just received my contributor’s copy of Spillway Magazine 18, the Games People Play issue. It contains my poem “Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling,” alongside poems by David Kirby, Nicky Beer, Norman Dubie, Nancy Carol Moody, David St. John, and a prose poem by Pierre Reverdy translated by Dan Bellm. You can pick up a copy here. Thank you Susan Terris and Spillway!
I just received news that Yemassee has accepted for their next issue a collaborative prose poem from a series written with my friend the poet Dustin Nightingale. This is the first of our collaborations to find a home, and we’re jazzed. Seriously. The poem, by the way, is called “Little Buzzings,” and it’s sort of about fruit flies…among other things.
Dustin doesn’t have a webpage, but you can read one of his poems in Stickman Review, and you can hear him read several poems on this episode of my old radio show The Poets Weave.
Received my contributor’s copy of Crate Literary Magazine today and it’s a beauty. It contains my poem “(They Were) There All the Time,” and fantastic work by the likes of Keith Dunlop, Kristin Abraham, and many others including three knock out poems by fellow IU MFA student Bethany Carlson. The cover was created by artist Jen Lau. You can pick up a copy here. Thanks Crate!
The Los Angeles Review has accepted my poem “How We Make It Home Eventually” for Issue 12 arriving this autumn. Yippee!
Used Furniture Review and NAP have both accepted poems for publication, and I’m spinning around for joy in the falling cottonwood fluff.
NAP has taken a nature-y poem for its upcoming special issue of nature poems about nature titled, appropriately, LOG.
UFR has taken a group of poems from a series I’ve been working on a for a while called The Little Book of Monsters.
Boo.
My poem “Done Playing Hard To Get” has just been published online at The Nervous Breakdown. My cup runneth youknowhow.
Reviewer Aimee Nicole graciously singled out my prose poem “No, I Will Not Be Your Girlfriend” in her review of NANO Fiction Volume 5 Number 1 published a couple days ago at the wonderful New Pages.
Some stories left lingering thoughts behind that I found myself being reminded of for days after reading. Christopher Citro’s story “No, I will not be your Girlfriend” discusses the mirror-like setup of the human body. Everything is either centered (nose, bellybutton, mouth) or placed evenly on each side (arms, legs, nipples). Except the heart, he points out. Apparently when the heart was smack in the middle of our rib cage, it was at a “structural weak point.” After evolution, the heart now lies securely and safely on the left side of our chest. Citro writes: “It illustrates the innate ability of the human heart to get out of the way of danger.”
You can read the rest of her review HERE.
You could watch me jumping up and down with joy, if you happened to be in my living room right now, HERE.
Architrave Press has just published my poem “Happy Birthday to Me” as a limited edition broadside of 250 copies. If you don’t know, a broadside is a single sheet of paper, basically a poster, printed on one side. This is the first one I have ever had published. And yes, I am psyched.
Architrave Press is located in St. Louis, MO, and publishes poems as individual broadsides (5.5″ x 8″ 100lb archival card stock) which are letterpress printed the old fashioned way. They are sold individually or in series. My poem is the first one in Edition 2.
You can read my poem online for free HERE.
If you want, you can buy a broadside (simultaneously blowing my mind and supporting a fantastic new press) by going HERE. It costs $3.50, S&H included, via PayPal.
If you’re feeling particularly frisky, you can purchase the entire Edition 2, which includes mine as well as wonderful poems by gaye gambell-peterson, Michael Bazzett, Michael Hettich, Kejt Walsh, Meagan Gamble, Claudia Torres, Shane Seely, Ray Holmes, and Kristen Elde., for $27.50 HERE.
That sound you heard a couple weeks ago was me shouting because I’d learned that both The Cream City Review and The Southeast Review have accepted poems of mine for publication.