With new year’s fast approaching, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the writing I’ve had accepted or published in 2025. It’s been a fortunate year for me, and I thank every one of the wonderful editors who made these publications possible! And thank you to the awesome poetry collaborators I’ve been lucky enough to write with!
Hot golly! I’m in this anthology and the audiobook of Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift is in consideration for next year’s Grammy Awards. Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty for making this project so awesome and such a success!
Jumpin’ for joy to have my poem “Raise It All Like Food to the Sky” accepted for the American Pop Culture Almanac: 1776-2026. Huge thanks to editor J.D. Isip…and to the movie The Princess Bride, for the inspiration, and much else.
Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It’s free or you can pay whatever you want for it! Get your copy today! Read it while riding the rails, taking breaks from making love, setting out lemon cakes for your backyard tea party with neighborhood cats, sitting on a bus…Whatever! We hope you enjoy these poems. And huge ever-shimmering thanks to Kevin Bertolero and Ghost City Press.
Get yer copy here: https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/i-wear-a-top-hat-when-i-go-into-the-forest
Last week the collaborative poetry chapbook “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro, had its release reading at the University of Toledo, hosted by Timothy Geiger and his Aureole Press, who created this letterpress printed work of art. I couldn’t be there in body but I was there in spirit. I’m excited to share this chapbook when it becomes available for purchase!
Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!
I’m delighted to share the news that a chapbook of collaborative poetry that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, titled The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering, has been accepted for publication at University of Toledo’s Aureole Press!
I’m delighted to share the news that I have a poem coming out in the anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swiftpublished by Ballantine Books, released December 3, and available for preorder today! This was such a fun project and I’m thrilled to have my work alongside so many poets I adore, such as Kim Addonizio, CA Conrad, Cornelius Eady, Jo Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diane Seuss…to name but a few!
My friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!
Delighted to receive my contributor copy of the Whitman on Walls anthology, which includes my newly commissioned poem “Circuitry Suite,” responding to passages from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. It was a delight and an honor to perform this last August at the Everson Museum of Art alongside an awesome group of other poets and performers. Huge thanks to Karin Coonrod and everyone with Compagnia de’ Colombari for making this all happen.
You can view their short film “Infinite Variety,” which my poem was also responding to on their Vimeo page here: https://vimeo.com/507829941
