Oh my goodness oh my goodness!!! The American Poetry Review has just accepted my full-length craft essay “On Giving Up: Its Uses and Benefits in the Writing Life.” What a dream come true! Thank you Elizabeth Scanlon and everybody at APR. Wow!!!
Another box of my new poetry book has arrived! Want a signed copy of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press? Order one directly from me via my website or this link: https://checkout.square.site/buy/T2GSZQN2ZYSFOIN4FVAYAF5J
Gigantic thank you to Mikko Harvey for this new generous, delightful Goodreads review of my new poetry book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! 🍋🌞
My poem “Shelter Awhile” is featured today on Verse Daily! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award, published by Elixir Press. Thank you J.P. Dancing Bear!
You can read the poem HERE.
You can buy an signed copy of the book from me HERE.
You can also get it at Amazon, Small Press Distribution and elsewhere.
What a thrill! I just reviewed proofs of an interview with me–about my second poetry book–which will appear in Rain Taxi. Rain Taxi!?! I could not be more delighted. Thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for your wonderful questions and conversation. I’m excited to be able to share this with everyone when it’s published.
The video of last month’s awesome inspiring poetry & fiction reading has been posted on YouTube for your delight and delectation! Please enjoy this reading Ae Hee Lee, yours truly, and Chaya Bhuvaneswar for the Sundress Reading Series!
I’m teaching an online 8-session (Weds 6-8:00 pm ET) creative nonfiction class on the lyric essay starting January 26 for the Downtown Writers Center. Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.
To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the winter class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.
The video of last week’s awesome inspiring poetry reading has been posted on YouTube for your delight and delectation! Please enjoy this reading by Mary Biddinger, yours truly Christopher Citro, Noah Falck, Jessica Q. Stark, and Issam Zineh for the David Has Zoom Pro For a Few Months Reading Series!
I’m reading poems from my new book on December 29 with the awesome Ae Hee Lee and Chaya Bhuvaneswar! Come join us for some pre-New Year’s literary festivities, thanks to the Sundress Reading Series!
Join us at http://tiny.utk.edu/sundress (password: safta).
Folks! My poem “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Rest of Your Life” has just been published online at The Los Angeles Review!!! Huge thanks to Blas Falconer and Vandana Khanna!!!
Read the poem HERE!