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Ghost Woodpecker by Dustin Nightingale Published by BatCat Press

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My friend and poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale’s chapbook Ghost Woodpecker has just been published by BatCat Press. It’s his first book and it’s one of those you’ll want to hold close to your skin, like under your shirt when it starts to rain. The poems are very, very short. They’ll break your heart, make you laugh, and provide you with the kind of dirty light we need to navigate our subterranean corridors. This letter-pressed volume, handset with vintage metal type, hand-printed and -bound, features a different found film slide embedded in the cover of each unique copy. So it’s also a work of art on that level.

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2 Collaborative Prose Poems in Southern Indiana Review

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What a thrill to receive my contributor issue of the Southern Indiana Review, which contains, “A Small Choir of Sour Voices” and “I Am a Speaker You Are Vibrating,” two collaborative prose poems I’ve written with Dustin Nightingale. The issue also contains three of Dustin’s own personal prose poems! It’s a massive joy to share this issue with the likes of Erika Meitner, Susannah Nevison, Ashley M. Jones, Kat Finch, and Liz A. Johnson and more! A thousand thousand thanks to Marcus Wicker, Ron Mitchell, and the rest of the good folks at SIR!

2 Poems in North American Review!

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I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of the spring issue of North American Review, which contains my poems “On a Foreign Planet Surrounded by Sugar Maples” and “Bats and Applesauce.” I’m delighted to share these pages with the likes of Nicole Cooley, Todd Davis, Martín Espada, Stephen Gibson, Tobias Wray, and so many others. Thank you so much to Rachel Morgan and the rest of the NAR crew!

3 Poems in the Alaska Quarterly Review!

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It’s an honor and a joy to share the news that I’ve just received my contributor copy of the new Alaska Quarterly Review, which contains my three poems “In Small Significant Ways We Are Horses,” “To Keep At Least Partially In the Air,” and “We Are Many People Some Okay.” What a delight to share this issue with such amazing writers as Hananah Zaheer Bajwa, Sarah Barber, Matthew Minicucci, Mark Wagenaar, Bruce Cohen, G. C. Waldrep, Blas Falconer, Alyse Knorr, and so many others! Thank you so much to Ronald Spatz and the rest of the AQR crew!

“To the Dirt Which in Time Will Consume Us All” Published in Narrative Magazine

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I’m delighted to share the news that my poem “To the Dirt Which in Time Will Consume Us All” has just been published over at Narrative Magazine! You can read the poem HERE (logging in is required to read the poem in its entirely, but it’s completely free to do so!) Thank you so much Jack, Carol, Tom, and the rest of the staff at Narrative!

“One Push on Top Is All it Takes” in Passages North

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Over-the-moon to receive my contributor copies of Passages North No. 39, which contains my poem “One Push on Top Is All it Takes.” I can’t wait to settle in and explore this amazing issue, packed with the likes of such favorites as Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Leila Chatti, Jessica Cuello, Chelsea Hrechuk Dingman, Norman Dubie, Meghan Lamb, Kyle McCord, Anne Panning, Jericho Parms, and S. Jane Sloat to name a few.

It’s a special treat to be published in Passages North a second time, since they were kind enough to give my lyric essay “Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough” a home last year as online Bonus Content.

Huge thank yous to Patricia Killelea, Willow Grosz and the rest of PN’s editors and readers!

Collaborative Prose Poem “The Star Wars Sheets I Had at Five” in Inter|rupture

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I’m delighted to share the news that my collaborative prose poem, “The Star Wars Sheets I had at Five,” written with Dustin Nightingale, has just been published in the final issue of Inter|rupture, beside a host of other new and fellow former contributors, including John Gallaher, Gale Marie Thompson, Brandon Amico, Noah Falck, Mary Biddinger, John Sibley Williams, Dalton Day, Adam Tedesco, Jennifer MacBain-stephens, just to name a few wonderfuls. Congratulations to editors Curtis Perdue, Elizabeth Onusko, and Anna Pollock-Nelson on a great run and an awesome final issue, and best wishes on your future projects!

Read said poem HERE.

Read our previous contribution, “The Weight of Everything,” from the Oct 2014 issue HERE.

“A Lot Going On Up There” Is Poem of the Week at Narrative!

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I’m thrilled to share the news that my poem “A Lot Going On Up There” has just been published as the Poem of the Week at Narrative Magazine! You can read the poem HERE (logging in is required to read the poem in its entirely, but it’s completely free to do so!) Thank you so much Jack, Carol, Tom, and the rest of the staff at Narrative!

“It’s Something People in Love Do” in the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2018

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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!

2 Poems Published in The Carolina Quarterly!

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I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copies of The Carolina Quarterly, which contains my poems “Sunsets Like Strobe Lights” and “That’s Why They Invented Cheesecake.” It’s such a pleasure to share this issue with Devon Balwit, Grant Kittrell, Dan Kraines, Jenna Le, Matt Miller, Annie Woodford, and many more wonderfuls. Thank you again Calvin Olsen and the rest of the Carolina Quarterly crew!