Thrilled!!! to review proofs of my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” which will appear in the January issue of The American Poetry Review!!! Wow!
I never know what I’m going to write about when I write my poems. I sure didn’t know this love poem would be inspired by a couple creatures peeping out from the middle of a 4 hour NOAA deep sea science expedition video, which is the kind of thing my partner and I like to watch late at night with the lights down low…
As the 1st snow of winter falls, what a warm bit of news to learn that The Shore has accepted “The Island Designated Yes,” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Thank you Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!
On my birthday yesterday, one of my very favorite journals, Colorado Review, accepted my two poems: “Night but Unlike Night” & “Peel the Black Walnut Bark like Small Fists in our Fists.” What a treat! CR has published two of my poems before, as well as a creative nonfiction essay, and it’s a journal I hold close to my heart. Thank you Matthew Cooperman and everyone at CR! These two poems are particular favorites of mine, and at the center of the developing manuscript of my third poetry book. I’m overjoyed they will appear in Colorado Review!
I’m deee-lighted to share the news that Sweet: A Literary Confection has accepted my poems “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out.” Huge thank you to Chelsea Dingman and all the good folks at Sweet. I’m having a great big scoop of chocolate ice cream this morning to celebrate!
What lovely news! Terrain.org has accepted my poems “Birds Come in Two Basic Sizes” and “Fugus Beneath the Bark, Oil.” Thank you to Simmons Buntin and the whole Terrain.org crew!
Do yourself a favor today and listen to the 6 Arthur Sze poems they published this March! 😀
https://www.terrain.org/2022/poetry/arthur-sze-2/
Delighted to learn that CutBank has accepted two collaborative prose poems, written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Crumb of Wind” and “Here Beside Us with Us.” Huzzah!
Delighted to receive the news that my poem “Groundhog Full of Yellow Roses” has been accepted at RHINO!
That little yelp of joy you might have heard just now was me, sorry, going through the proofs of my craft essay, “On Giving Up: Its Uses and Benefits in the Writing Life,” which will appear in The American Poetry Review‘s July/August issue. Even typing that out I still can’t believe that it’s true. Sigh… I’m getting ready to give a yelp again. Sorry. 😀
Oh golly! Conduit just accepted my poem “How the Sun Got Crushed That One Monday” and I’m dancing around the house making yippee noises! Thank you to William Waltz and the rest of the Conduit Magazine crew!
Wow wow!!! Alaska Quarterly Review accepted my lyric essay “Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?”! Yippee! Thank you to my friends Dustin and J for allowing me to interview you for this essay. Thank you to Ragdale Foundation for providing me with a residency and fellowship where I could write the early drafts of this essay. Thank you to Ronald Spatz for accepting it!