I’m delighted to share the news that a chapbook of collaborative poetry that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, titled The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering, has been accepted for publication at University of Toledo’s Aureole Press!
Friends! That sound you probably just heard was me yelling with delight at the news that The Kenyon Review has just accepted my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” Thank you thank you to Nicole Terez Dutton and everyone at KR! Oh…I’m about to start emoting again!
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!
