“Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” accepted at New South!

After a little hiatus on our poetry collaboration project, Dustin Nightingale and I started back up earlier this year and what a thrill it’s been to have had 4 of our poems accepted at 2 journals over the last week! I posted yesterday about The Rupture. Today we learned that New South has taken “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” – one of my personal favorites. Maybe someday someone will want our book manuscript?! Huge thank you to Caroline Chavatel and the crew of New South!

3 collaborations accepted at The Rupture!

Delighted to learn that The Rupture has accepted three collaborative prose poems I’ve written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Mushroom Now and Then Pushing Through the Needles,” “Taking One Spoon of Earth,” and “Wispy and Withstanding Storms.” Huge thanks to Marielle Prince and the rest of the good The Rupture people!

Here’s a poem of mine they published back in 2016 when they were called The Collagist

My poems “Flavorfest, Sparkle Supreme, Seascape, Eversweet” “How Many Exoplanets Will It Take” and “Pinkies and Stumpies” accepted at Court Green!

I’m jump-for-joy delighted to learn that Court Green has just accepted my three poems, “Flavorfest Sparkle Supreme Seascape Eversweet,” “How Many Exoplanets Will It Take,” and “Pinkies and Stumpies.” Thank you Cora Jacobs, David Trinidad, Tony Trigilio, and Aaron Smith!

“The Effect Lasting Half a Minute” accepted at Barrow Street!

As the temps drop into the single digits here in sunny Syracuse, I’m warmed by the news that my poem “The Effect Lasting Half a Minute” has just been accepted at Barrow Street! Huge thank yous to Michael Broek and the other Barrow Street editors and readers. This poem’s inspired by, among other things, pumpkin pie, whipped cream, and an episode of the “In Our Time” Podcast about Feathered Dinosaurs, in which we learn the evolutionary function of the wishbone.

3 Poems Accepted at West Branch!

I’m thrilled to share the news that West Branch has accepted three of my poems: “If Alone Has a Flavor,” “Quartered Suns” and “That’s Me When That’s You”! Massive thank yous to Joe Scapellato and the rest of the crew of West Branch! It may be gray as all get-out here in Syracuse, but today things seem bright. 🙂

My lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” Accepted at Southeast Review!

Oh my goodness! My lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” has just been accepted at Southeast Review! It’s the second in my series of lyric essays inspired by the 4 fundamental forces of physics–this one being the gravity essay. Now I need to get on the stick and finish the remaining 2 on the strong and weak nuclear reactions… Thank you Dyan Neary and the rest of the CNF staff!