“The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” Published Online at The Cincinnati Review!

My microfiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has just been published online at The Cincinnati Review as part of their miCRo Series. Please click the link below to read it, or to listen to the audio of me reading it to you! 🙂 Thank so much Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, and the rest of the kind folks at The Cincinnati Review!

Read/listen HERE!

My Lyric Essay “Root That Mountain” Published in The Florida Review

Even the sub-arctic chill of this polar vortex can’t cool the thrill of receiving my copies of The Florida Review, which contains my lyric essay “Root That Mountain.” I’ve shared the first three pages here. This essay is from my series on the four elements; it’s the dirt essay. Thank you to my friends J Keirn-Swanson and Dustin Nightingale for letting me interview them for it. Thank you to Lisa Roney, Mike Shier, and the rest of The Florida Review staff.

“And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basin” Published in Sixth Finch

As another blizzard prepares to descend upon us here in Syracuse, I’m curling up around the warm glow of the new issue of Sixth Finch which contains my poems, “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basin,” as well as stellar new poems by folks such as Rachel Bennett, Lauren Camp, Bill Carty, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Adam Tavel, and more! It’s such a thrill to have my poetry in Sixth Finch again. A thousand thanks to Rob MacDonald and Jaime Zuckerman!

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My poems “Sneaking Back Inside” and “We Live on a Foreign Planet this One” Published in cream city review!

What a thrill to hold my contributor copy of the new cream city review, which contains my poems “Sneaking Back Inside” and “We Live on a Foreign Planet this One,” alongside luminous new work by such bright lights as Adam Day, Virginia Konchan, Lisa Low, Saara Myrene Raappana, Karen Weyant, John Sibley Williams, and Brenna Womer. Thanks so much Alessandra Rolffs, Ae Hee Lee, Caleb Nelson, and the rest of the CCR staff!

“Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in The Massachusetts Review!

On this rainy October morning, I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of The Massachusetts Review, which contains my poem “Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in addition to work from such wonderfuls as Chen Chen, Leah Poole Osowski, Emma Bolden, Dennis Finnell, Christopher Kondrich, Michael Hurley, to name but a few. Thank you so much to Ellen Doré Watson, Deborah Gorlin, Emily Wojcik, and the rest of the MR crew!

3 Collaborations Published in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing!

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!)

“Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands” and “Shelter Awhile” Published in Colorado Review

I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copies of the summer Colorado Review, which contains my poems “Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands” and “Shelter Awhile.” This is the second time I’ve been in the Colorado Review, since they were good enough to publish my lyric essay “Go Away and Stay Right Here” back in the Spring 2014 Issue. Such a delight to share the pages of this issue with amazings such as Ruth Baumann, Conor Bracken, Sophie Klahr, Cate Lycurgus, Lisa Olstein, Brian Simoneau, Kevin Wilson, to name only a few. Massive thanks to Katherine Indermaur, Matthew Cooperman, Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, and Stephanie G’Schwind!

“If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” Published in Gulf Coast

The summer/fall 2018 issue of Gulf Coast includes my poem, “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun.” I am over-the-moon thrilled to share these pages with the likes of Tyler Gof Barton, Jenny Molberg, Paige Lewis, Rebecca Hazelton Stafford, Mark Neely, and so many other amazing writers. Massive thank yous to Dan Chu, Chelsea B DesAutels, Aza Pace, Justin Jannise, Michele Nereim, Luisa Muradyan Tannahill, and the rest of the GC crew.
With poems out in the most recent issue of Blackbird, Pleiades, and now Gulf Coast–well, it’s been a wonderful summer!

“I Smell the Earth All Around Me and Above” Published in Pleiades

I’m thumpingly thrilled to have received my contributor copies of the summer issue of Pleiades, which contains my poem, “I Smell the Earth All Around Me and Above,” along with amazing work by wonderfuls such as Michael S Bazzett, John Taylor, Erin Hoover, JP Grasser, Lisa Russ Spaar, Kyle McCord, Adam Tavel, Chelsea Hrechuk Dingman, Lily Hoang, and more–holy moly! Huge thank yous to Jenny Molberg, Phong Nguyen, and the rest of the Pleiades crew!