Dear friends. I’m delighted to receive my contributor’s copy of The Greensboro Review, which contains my poem, “Blood in the Air.” Massive, geese-flying-overhead-honking thank yous to Terry L. Kennedy, Matthew Valades, Julia Edwards and the rest of the good folks at The Greensboro Review!
I’m thrilled to share the news that West Branch has accepted three of my poems: “If Alone Has a Flavor,” “Quartered Suns” and “That’s Me When That’s You”! Massive thank yous to Joe Scapellato and the rest of the crew of West Branch! It may be gray as all get-out here in Syracuse, but today things seem bright. 🙂
Massive congratulations to my sweetie for being nominated by Guesthouse for a Pushcart Prize for her soon to be published short story, “The Ailments of Thomas Pepys”!!! Your third pushcart nomination, one in poetry, two in fiction. You are so awesome! ❤
I’m thrilled to share that my lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” has just been published in Southeast Review‘s new online issue. This essay is from my series inspired by the four fundamental forces. This is the gravity essay, so naturally it touches on…stuff that’s fallen on my head, visiting the local apple festival, Kansas meteorites, buying a house, hanging out on rooftops, Cal Tjader, Yves Klein, middle school science fair, and so on and so on. I wanna say a huge thanks to Zach Linge, Dyan Neary, and everyone at SER!
Read it HERE!
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!
Here’s an interview with me just published by the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. It’s one of my favorite interviews I’ve done. I talk about the Institute a little, and a lot about my poems, my titles, my first and second books, teaching, poetry readings, prose poetry, the importance of play in creativity, and more. Ya’ just can’t shut me up once I get going. Thanks so much Alexandra Murphy for your thoughtful, exciting questions, and to the MVICW for publishing this interview!
Read it HERE.
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!
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “Black Bean Sauce” and “Like a River Stood on End” have been accepted at Cherry Tree. Huge thanks to James Allen Hall and the rest of the Cherry Tree crew!
On the day that I received my driver’s license renewal I’ve also received my contributor copy of this beautiful new anthology, Show Us Your Papers, edited by Daniela Buccilli, Wendy Scott Paff, and Cherise Pollard, from Main Street Rag Publishing! It’s a thrill to have my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” appear alongside work of so many poets I admire and read with joy!
On this warm September Monday, after three nights of frosts, I thought I’d share this video I made in June of me reading two poems (“It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks”) from my forthcoming book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. Pandemic beard in evidence.
I just uploaded this video to my YouTube page. The squirrels seem to be hectically preparing for the coming cold.