Category Archives: Acceptance

The Rappahannock Review

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My poem “A Raising” has been accepted for the August 2014 issue of the Rappahannock Review. This online literary journal is published by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

If you’re not familiar with this journal, check out the essay Justice by Alyce Miller, one of my former instructors at Indiana University, in the inaugural issue.

Thanks Eric Turner, Moira McAvoy and the other Rappahannock Review editors!

Whiskey Island

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Two prose poems written in collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale have just been accepted for publication in Whiskey Island.

We’ve been working hard at this ongoing series of collaborative prose poems — emails bouncing back and forth between Fargo, North Dakota and Syracuse, NY — and it’s fantastic to see them finding homes in journals as wonderful as Whiskey Island.

Thank you Whiskey Island editors! Huzzah!

Gay Head Lighthouse Poetry Project

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Five of my poems have just been selected to appear in the Gay Head Lighthouse Poetry Project, an anthology to help raise money for the preservation of Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha’s Vineyard. This historic lighthouse is in danger of falling into the sea due to erosion and funds are being raised in many ways to move it to a place of safety. You can find more info about the preservation project HERE.

If you’ve never been fortunate enough to see this lighthouse in person, chances are you’ve seen it on film, in this scene from Jaws:

The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy Has Been Accepted!

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I am overjoyed, over-the-moon, overwhelmed and quite frickin’ excited to announce that my first poetry book manuscript, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, has been selected for publication by Steel Toe Books, an independent poetry press founded in 2003, directed by Tom C. Hunley and associated with Western Kentucky University.

I love this press and I’m so excited that they’ll be publishing my book, which is scheduled to appear in the first quarter of 2015.

It is indeed a Happy New Year!

[Author photo above looking a bit pensive with an early version of the manuscript taped up on my office wall, wondering if it would ever find a home…]

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

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I’m delighted to announce that two of my unpublished poems have been accepted for the forthcoming anthology Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland published by Ice Cube Press. You can peruse a complete list of the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction contributors and titles HERE.

Thank you editors Lance M. Sacknoff, Xavier Cavazos, and Stefanie Brook Trout!

Trees: Symbols of Powerful Experiences

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Two of my poems have been chosen to be part of the juried visual art and poetry show Trees: Symbols of Powerful Experience in the gallery at The Tech Garden here in Syracuse, NY. The show is curated by artist-in-residence Maria Rizzo.

My chosen poems are “Our Apple Trees” (first published as a broadside by Thrush Press) and “Kindling Me” (first published in Salamander).

The opening ceremony, including food, live music and awards, will be from 5-8 pm on November 21, 2013. The full exhibition runs from November 14 to December 31, 2013, Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm.

Thank you Maria Rizzo and Poetry Juror Lindsey Bellosa!

Event Info

Article at Syracuse.com, November 5, 2013