Hot dog! My poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming” has been accepted at Bennington Review! I am so thrilled that my poem will get to join the awesome awesome writing that they publish. Thank you Michael Dumanis and all at Bennington Review!
Delighted to have just received the wonderful news that Zone 3 has accepted my poem, “Red Birds the Size of Fists.” Thanksgiving has arrived early. HUGE thank you to Stephanie Dugger and everyone at Zone 3! This will be my third appearance in this awesome journal.
Wow!! Blackbird just accepted my poem “Birds and Stars Suite.” This is one of the long poems that I’ve been writing since the summer, and it’s a great shot in the arm to have this validation of my new experimentation. Thank you thank you thank you to Caroline Richards and everyone at Blackbird! This will be my second appearance in Blackbird, and I’m celebrating as jubilantly as that first one!
Delighted to receive the news on this rainy autumn Saturday that Diode has accepted my poems “The Body the Fact of It” and “Great the Light Failing Again.” Thank you to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
What a delight to receive an acceptance today from Postcard Lit for “Sunlight Spun on Spools” a collaborative prose poem from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale! Someday our poem will be available on a postcard along with original art inspired by the poem…which could not be more awesome. Thank you Postcard Lit!
Fugue just accepted my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” in an email which also said, “Our team was immediately drawn into your poignant imagery, attention to sound, and the submission’s human themes.” Golly, my heart is curled up on the floor purring. Thankyouthankyouthankyou to Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue!
Awesome! LIT just accepted my poem “Playing Baseball with a Pocket Knife.” Huge thank yous to Rebecca Endres & Richard Berwind and everyone at LIT.
And thank you to my dad for teaching me this game on our backyard picnic table when I was little…and I never even chopped off any of my fingers or toes while playing it, go figure!
Today Poetry Daily today is featuring my poem “Sneaking Back Inside” from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun.
HUGE thank to Judy Leserman and everyone at Poetry Daily!
Holy-moly! 32 Poems just accepted my poem “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” and I’m freaking out! Wow! Thank you George David Clark and everyone at 32 Poems! I’m headin’ out for some prosecco, cuz there’s gonna be some celebratin’ going on around the ol’ homestead tonight!
I’m delighted to learn that Moon City Review has accepted my poem “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish.” This was written after a solitary walk down to Inkwell Beach late one night from the faculty house at the last in person Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. A big starlit sky. Lights of little boats in the distance. A water bottle filled with bourbon and orange juice… Thank you Sara Burge and everyone at MCR!