My poem “The New Avenues the Only Avenues We Have” has just been published in the new online issue of Witness Magazine. This poem is especially close to my heart, as among other things it celebrates old and dear friendships. Having just recently lost an old and dear friend, this publication is doubly poignant for me. I hope you enjoy the poem. Thank you to Lindsay Olson, Tamar Peterson, and the whole Witness team!
We’re the back cover of the new Denver Quarterly! Holy moly! Friends, I’m over-the-moon to have received contributor copies of the new issue of Denver Quarterly whose theme is collaborative writing. It contains three prose poems I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. And they put one on the back cover! What a thrill! Thank you to Vincent James and everyone at the Denver Quarterly!
As part of the celebration of Smartish Pace 27 I made this video of me reading my three poems in the new issue, “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather.” It was May and still snowing here in Syracuse. I hope you enjoy.
Thank you again Stephen Reichert and the rest of the Smartish Pace ensemble for including my poems in this beautiful new issue! 🙂
You can snag yourself a copy of the issue HERE!
What a joy to hold my contributor copy of Sou’wester, which contains my poems “Until the World Cracks in Half,” “Last Bites Mostly Your Own Saliva,” and “Say that Again.” Thank you Poetry Editor Joshua Kryah and the rest of the Sou’wester crew!
I’m thrilled to hold my contributor copy of Smartish Pace, which contains my poems, “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather.” It’s an honor to share these pages with so many poets whose work I adore. Thank you so much to Stephen Reichert and the rest of the Smartish Pace crew! Dorianne Laux has a poem in it that begins “Under the blown out stars/ sounds the lone horn” and ends “smother my wet face/ with underwater kisses/ I miss you so much// I could drown” I mean, come on!
I’m thrilled to receive my contributor copy of the new Zone 3, which contains my poem “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains.” Thank you so much Andrea Spofford, Stephanie Dugger, Aubrey Collins, and the rest of the Zone 3 team. It’s a delight to clasp this beautiful issue in my hands. Plus there’s a short story by my MFA teacher Maura Stanton! Plus the cover is like a sun! (Painted by Khari Turner.)
Snaggeth thee a copy HERE.
What a delight to receive my contributor’s copy of Best Microfiction 2020, which contains my story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need To Go.” This pocket-sized book is so adorable you want to eat it, filled with tons of awesome microfictions, plus even craft essays and interviews. Dang! Thank you guest editor Michael Martone and series editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke!
Grab yerself a copy HERE.
Thank you Zone 3 for creating this beautiful image with a line from my poem “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” soon to appear in their upcoming issue.
My poem “What I’m Left With” has been published today online by The Iowa Review as part of their National Poetry Month daily feature. Thank you Abagail Petersen and the rest of The Iowa Review crew! I’m honored to have my poem part of this month’s line-up of awesome poets!
Click HERE to read it!
Now that the best holiday of the year is over, we have to find things to keep ourselves occupied. Maybe this will help. My poem “As If It Didn’t Need Me” has just been published in the new issue of DIAGRAM. Thank you to the always amazing Ander Monson, Rafael Gonzalez, and the rest of the DIAGRAM crew! Check out the whole wonderful issue 19.5 for your post-Halloween good times!
Read my poem HERE.