Delighted to learn that the good folks at Hobart have accepted my poems “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” and “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” for publication next month!
Category Archives: Acceptance
“If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” Accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology
Halfway into this amazing week teaching and talking writing at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, I’m delighted to learn that my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” has been accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology from New American Press!
3 Collaborations Written with Dustin Nightingale Accepted at Bear Review!
Massive thank yous to the good editor folks of Bear Review for accepting “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music,” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths,” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake” — three collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale.
My 2nd Book Has Won Elixir Press’ 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award!
Holy moly!!! My second poetry book manuscript has WON the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Thank you judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis! Thank you Dana Curtis! And thank you to everyone who has been supportive and encouraging on my journey to get my second poetry book published–I am truly grateful. It’s so incredibly, heart-thumpingly delightful that “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” has found a home at Elixir Press!!!
“It’s Something People in Love Do” Accepted for Terrapin Books’ Anthology A Compendium of Kisses!
Delighted to learn that my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” has been accepted for Terrapin Books’ anthology A Compendium of Kisses, where it will appear along poems by Dorianne Laux, David Kirby, Tim Seibles, Ellen Bass, Alice Friman, Ron Smith, Charles H. Webb, Jeffrey Harrison, Caitlin Doyle, Kurt Brown, Baron Wormser, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and many others!
“The Answer the Question in Your Mind Rosemary” and “Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse” Accepted at Arts & Letters
Wonderful to learn tonight that my poems “The Answer the Question in Your Mind Rosemary” and “Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse” have been accepted at Arts & Letters. Here’s a photo I took last summer of the lighthouse on Block Island that inspired one of the poems.
“I’m Back Here I’m Paddling Too” Accepted at Poetry Northwest
Delighted to receive the news that my poem “I’m Back Here I’m Paddling Too” has been accepted for publication in Poetry Northwest! This will be my second appearance in PN since they were kind enough to publish my poem “We Give Ourselves New Medals (We Give Ourselves a Chance)” back in the winter/spring 2016 issue.
“The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” Accepted at The Cincinnati Review
Delighted to receive the news that The Cincinnati Review has accepted my micro-fiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” for their miCRo series.
I love what they publish in this series, such as this recent piece, “Any Body,” by Sarah Freligh.
“Calling For One Another When We’re Right There” Accepted at The Cortland Review
Delighted to receive the news tonight that my poem “Calling For One Another When We’re Right There” has been accepted at The Cortland Review. These good folks were kind enough to have published my poem “Help! I’m Floating!” in issue 46 way back in 2010. My how the winds of time do blow…
2 Poems Accepted at Sixth Finch!
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basins” have just been accepted at Sixth Finch! It’s so great to have work forthcoming again in one of my favorite journals–they were good enough to publish my poem “The Sweet of Being Made Right” in the winter 2016 issue.
(I thought I’d post the photograph that inspired one of the poems, from a weekend Adirondack cabin getaway last winter. You’ll have to imagine the sound of massive trees popping in the frigid cold yourself.)