Category Archives: Award

“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” Runner-Up for the Brittany Noakes Poetry Award

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I’m honored and delighted to share the news that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” was selected as Runner-Up for the Brittany Noakes Poetry Award whose entree fees benefit the Live Your Dream Award, sponsored by SI of Rittenhouse Square, PA, for a single mother who has experienced hardships, to help her pursue her education. Click HERE to read (and hear me read) my poem (first published in Rattle Issue 50) along with super-kind words by Shevaun Brannigan and contest judge J.C. Todd. Thanks so much to you both!

“We Come Here Every Day So You’re Already Won” in River Styx

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As winter sunlight crawls slowly across the snow today, I’m excited to have received my contributor copies of River Styx Issue 95 which contains my work poem “We Come Here Every Day So You’re Already Won,” an Honorable Mention for the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Prize. What a bounty of literary goodies, including work by Cate Lycurgus, Thomas Lux, Doug Ramspeck, Bruce Bond, Richard Cecil, Amit Majmudar, Cornelius Eady, Michael Czyzniejewski, Peter Kline, Allison Joseph, Brian Brodeur, Zeina Hashem Beck to name but a few! The great cover is by Theo R. Welling, who has more dog show photos inside. Thanks again Richard Newman, Lizzy Petersen, Jyl Brady and the other River Styx readers and editors!

My Poem Among Story Magazine’s Most Powerful Stories of 2015

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I’m honored to find that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” – a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and recently published in Issue 50 – was included in this list of the Most Powerful Stories of 2015 by the editors of Story Magazine. It’s so cool to see my poem among this eclectic gathering of 2015’s essays, novels, news stories, film, music and more, rubbing metaphorical shoulders (after the top 10) with Marc Maron’s WTF interview with President Obama and the final season of Mad Men. Thanks Story Magazine!

Honorable Mention in the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Contest

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I’m all atingle to announce that my poem “We Come Here Every Day So You’ve Already Won” has been selected as an Honorable Mention in the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Contest, judged by Andrew Hudgins.

Congratulations to the winner Peter Kline, and the other poets who placed and received honorable mentions, including Allison Joseph, Brian Brodeur, Austin Allen, Zeina Hashem Beck, Heather Altfield.

Thanks to Richard Newman, judge Andrew Hudgins, and the other River Styx Editors!

Semifinalist for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize

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I’m delighted to announce that my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award” has been accepted for publication in Crab Creek Review.

It was chosen as one of the semifinalists for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Congrats to the winner, Laura Read, and the other poems that placed.

Thank you Martha Silano and the other Crab Creek Review editors!

Poetry Competition Winner at Columbia Journal

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Today I received my contributor’s copy of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art issue 53 which includes my poem, “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like.”

This poem was selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly as the winner of the 2015 Poetry Competition. Thanks so much again to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!

I won this year’s Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art

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I am floored, jazzed, honored and breathless to announce that my poem “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like” has been selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly to win this year’s Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art . It will appear in issue 53.

Thanks so much to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!