Lovely to learn that my second poetry book manuscript was a semifinalist for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from The University of Utah Press. Congratulations to the winner Lindsay Lusby!
Category Archives: Award
I’ve Been Awarded a Ragdale Residency Fellowship for Next Spring!
Holy. Moly. I’ve been awarded a residency at Ragdale for next spring, fully funded with a fellowship!!! I’d never applied to do any residency before being invited to apply to this one, and wow I never expected all this. Thank you Jeffrey Meeuwsen, Amy Sinclair, Regin Igloria, and the Curational Board, selection committee, & staff at Ragdale Foundation for this amazing opportunity. I’m honored and elated. Having this to look forward to will certainly help keep things glowing when winter winds come a-blowing.
Finalist for Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry!
Lovely to return from vacation to the news that my second poetry book manuscript was a finalist for Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry judged by Ocean Vuong. Congratulations to the winner Chad Bennett. Also, congratulations to my fellow finalist and fellow Indiana University MFA Nathaniel Perry!
2018 Residence Hall Association Professor Recognition Award
Wednesday evening I had the honor and delight to receive a 2018 Residence Hall Association Professor Recognition Award for being an outstanding educator at SUNY Oswego. Thank you to Richard Kolenda, Jacob Gardner, and most of all to my students!
Finalist for the Wolverine Farm Poetry Broadside Prize
It’s gratifying to learn that my poem, “It’s Something People in Love Do,” has been named a finalist for the 2018 Wolverine Farm Poetry Broadside Prize. Congratulations to the winner, Derek Mong, and to the other finalists!
This poem of mine appears in this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology and you can read it here.
My 2nd Book Manuscript a Finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize!
I’m honored and delighted that the manuscript of my second book of poems — the newest version, just a few months old — has been named a finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize from The University of Georgia Press. Huge congratulations to the winner Rosa Lane, to the runner-up Samuel Amadon, and to the other finalists.
“It’s Something People in Love Do” in the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2018
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!
Semi-Finalist for University of Wisconsin Press’ Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes
Thank you Ron Wallace and the rest of the readers and judges for designating my second poetry book manuscript a “strong semi-finalist” for the University of Wisconsin Press’ Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes. Congratulations to the eventual winners and finalists!
Best of the Net Nomination for my essay in Passages North
Huge thanks to Willow Grosz and the rest of the good folks at Passages North for nominating my lyric essay Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough for the Best of the Net Anthology!
My 2nd Book Manuscript Named a Semi-Finalist for the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry
Happy to learn that the manuscript of my second book of poetry was a semi-finalist for the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry! Congratulations to the winner Sarah Barber for her manuscript Country House!