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!
My micro-fiction “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals To Get at the Good Stuff” has just been published online by The Spectacle. Complete with a wonderful illustration! Huge thanks to Kelly Caldwell and the rest of The Spectacle crew!
Read it HERE.
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!
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!
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!)
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!
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’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!
My short lyric essay 900’33” — composed of what I heard on the day of June 21, 2018 — has just been published on Ander Monson’s Essay Daily. Visit the link HERE and scroll down to find it.
Thank you to my friends and family who graciously answered the phone last Thursday to answer my question, “What’s the best thing you heard today?”
Thank you to Ander Monson and Will Slattery for coming up with this great project of having people write essays on what happened to them on June 21, 2018.
I am loop-de-loop delighted to share the publication of my poem “Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us” in the new issue of blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. It’s an honor and a joy to have my poem appear in this issue alongside work by the likes of Kaveh Akbar, Roy Bentley, Michelle Boisseau, Victoria Chang, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Iain Haley Pollock, Nancy Reddy…to name just a few. Thank you to Brandie Gray, Victoria C. Flanagan, and the rest of the blackbird crew!
Read the poem HERE.