Category Archives: Publication

Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)

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Hi friends. I’m thunderingly delighted to have received my contributor copies of Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence published by White Pines Press. This anthology contains five prose poems from my ongoing sequence called The Little Book of Monsters. Its 300+ pages also contain sequences by a host of amazing poets and writers including Nin Andrews, Carol Guess, Gian Lombardo, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Julie Marie Wade, Gary Young, and Jim (yes, that Jim) Harrison. There are sequences of prose poems, flash fictions, lyric essays, fairy tales, koans, epistolary address, and other cross-genre work. Thank you editors Robert Alexander, Eric Braun, and Debra Marquart and the entire Marie Alexander Poetry Series team for creating this amazing anthology!

“Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart” in Booth #9

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My poem “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart” — which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize — has just been published in their print issue #9. You can read the poem HERE. Holy moly! Look at that cover (Sleeping Giants by Jillian Nickell)! I want to live in that house on top of that mountainous monster. If you only know Booth from their online presence, do yourself a favor and get this thing of beauty. The art design, illustrations, end pages, French flaps…it’s gorgeous. To say nothing of all the great poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Thanks so much Robert Stapleton, Chris Speckman, Rachel Sahaidachny and the rest of the Booth team!

“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!

“Barely Managing the Houseplants Thing” in Redivider

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I’m delighted to have received my contributor copies of Redivider 13.1, which contains my poem “Barely Managing the Houseplants Thing.” What a fantastic and beautiful issue packed with great fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art. You can even buy an e-book version of it for $5 HERE. Thanks again Poetry Editor John Allen Taylor and the rest of the Redivider staff!

Crab Creek Review

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I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of the fall issue of Crab Creek Review, which contains my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award” — in addition to so much great poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Thanks so much again Martha Silano, Ronda Broatch, and Jenifer Browne Lawrence!

To celebrate, I’ve uploaded to SoundCloud audio of me reading this poem at The Downtown Writer’s Center’s 2015 August Occasion in Clinton, NY.

Listen to the poem HERE.

“As If Hurtling” in the Greensboro Review

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I’m super excited to have received my contributor copies of the fall 2015 issue of Greensboro Review – which contains my poem “As If Hurtling” along with poems by favorites such as Glenn Shaheen and Traci Brimhall and lots more great poetry and fiction.

Thanks so much Poetry Editor Mackenzie Connellee and the other Greensboro Review editors and readers!

Hey, Why’d You Do That?

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Here’s an interview with me, published today at Great Writers Steal — as part of their series called “Hey, Why’d You Do That?” — in which I respond to questions about my poem “Nerve Endings Like Strawberry Runners” recently published online at Witness.

The interview includes both the phrase “(certainty + uncertainty)” and my idea of what a poem written for a cat would look like. So, like, you’ve been warned. 🙂

Thanks Ken Nichols!