Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!
HUGE congratulations to my sweetie Sarah for having her short story “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly” accepted at Tupelo Quarterly! I’m so proud of you! 👏👏👏👏
How wonderful! Post Road has accepted my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free.” Thank you so much to Okwudili Nebeolisa and everyone at Post Road Magazine!
Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
Yip-a-dang! I’m thrilled share the news that The Glacier just accepted my three poems “Feathered Dinosaur,” “Live Feeds,” and “These Late Summer Nights When You Exist.” Huge thanks to Managing & Poetry Editor John T. Leonard and Editor-in-Chief David Dodd Lee!
Hot golly! Tupelo Quarterly accepted a packet of my poems and will publish them as a Portfolio of Poetry in the next issue! Thank you Kristina Marie Darling and all the great folks who make TQ. I’m feeling very fortunate as 2024 winds to a close…
Wow! The Laurel Review has accepted 3 of the collaborative poems that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I have written together: “We End and the World Begins, Where?” “A Change of Occupation” and “Three Deaths near a Body of Water.” Xmas came early this year! HUGE thank you to Editor John Gallaher!
The North American Review just accepted my poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” This will be my third appearance in the awesome magazine! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger. This dark, gray Syracuse “day” just got considerably brighter. 🌞
2 journal acceptances yesterday! If you write collaboratively with the likes of Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, I suppose it shouldn’t come as a shock but really…Holy moly!! Heavy Feather Review has accepted “Placatory Congregation” (thank you Bill Lessard!) and The Boiler has accepted “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” (thank you Diana Cao & Todd Dillard)!
Wow! The Normal School just accepted my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again.” Thanks so much Angelina Leanos and everyone at The Normal School. Instead of my spaceman costume, I think I’ll be greeting trick-or-treaters tonight as a Super-Happy Poet!