On the day that I received my driver’s license renewal I’ve also received my contributor copy of this beautiful new anthology, Show Us Your Papers, edited by Daniela Buccilli, Wendy Scott Paff, and Cherise Pollard, from Main Street Rag Publishing! It’s a thrill to have my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” appear alongside work of so many poets I admire and read with joy!
As part of their virtual book launch today, the editors of the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology asked me to make a short video of myself reading my included story. The file’s too large for me to post here directly, but the link below will take you there!
Watch my reading HERE.
Grab a copy of the anthology HERE!
What a delight to receive my contributor’s copy of Best Microfiction 2020, which contains my story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need To Go.” This pocket-sized book is so adorable you want to eat it, filled with tons of awesome microfictions, plus even craft essays and interviews. Dang! Thank you guest editor Michael Martone and series editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke!
Grab yerself a copy HERE.
Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!
You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” will appear in the anthology Show Us Your Papers forthcoming from Main Street Rag. Thank you editors Wendy Scott Paff, Daniela Buccilli, and Cherise A. Pollard!
P.S. submissions are open until the end of August!
What a delight to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in A Constellation of Kisses, the new anthology from Terrapin Books. Thank you so much to editor Diane Lockward. 100 poems about kissing, written by the likes of Kim Addonizio, Denise Duhamel, Jeffrey Harrison, Allison Joseph, David Kirby, Dorianne Laux…just to name just a very few. Yes please!
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!
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!
What a thrill to hold in my hands my contributor copy of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing just out from Black Lawrence Press. The names on the table of contents make my head spin. Dustin Nightingale and I are absolutely looped to have three of our collaborative prose poems appear in this anthology: “Staring Out a Window Echoing the Actual Moon” and “And Me With Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” first published in DIAGRAM, and “I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” first published in Two Peach. Thank you to the editors who initially published these and to Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, and Jackie White for including us in this amazing volume.
(Click the poem titles above to read the poems as originally published!)
Thank you to Bill Henderson and the other editors of The Pushcart Prize Anthology for including my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” in the newly published 2018 edition! Having received my contributor’s copy not long ago, I’m still reeling from the honor. Thank you to all the journal editors who have nominated my work over the years, and most especially to Lee Upton and Tony Ardizzone for nominating my work this year. Thanks again to Anthony Sutton, Mitchell Jacobs, Rachel Reynolds, and the other editors at Sycamore Review for giving this poem a home in the first place!
