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!
My poem “The Sweet of Being Made Right” has been published today in the new issue of Sixth Finch. As usual, it’s a smashing issue and I’m elated to be a part of it! Thanks again Rob MacDonald, Dara Cerv and the Sixth Finch crew! You can read the poem HERE.
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.
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!
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!
Today I received my contributor copy of the winter issue of Rattle containing my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which was a finalist for this year’s Rattle Poetry Prize. An amazing issue with tons of great poetry. Thanks so much again Timothy Green and the other Rattle readers and editors!
Today I received my contributor copy of the fall issue of Zone 3, which contains “The Construction of a Massive Concrete Dam” – a prose poem from a series I’ve been writing collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale.
Thanks so much Andrea Spofford, Susan Wallace and the other Zone 3 editors and readers!
I just got my contributor copy of New South, which contains my poem “Wings Like Powerful Versions of Me.”
This is the Adventure Issue — including a choose your own adventure Jeeves and Wooster short story by Matthew David Brozik and Zac Cox’s wild cover art and portfolio of twisted Choose Your Own Adventure book covers.
Thanks so much Hank Backer and the other New South editors!
I’m elated to announce that my creative nonfiction essay “An Elephant Walks into a McDonalds” has just been published in the fall 2015 issue of Boulevard. This traditional essay is a memoir account of two prison arts outreach experiences I have had: the first in the 1990s at Washington DC’s Lorton Prison as an observer with Living Stage, and the second in the 2000s as a guest poet at a jail outside Lawrence, Kansas.
This is the second essay that I have had published and it’s a thrill to have it appear in Boulevard. Thank you to Jessica Rogen and the other Boulevard Editors!
Three prose poems from a series I’ve been writing in collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale have been published in the new issue of