I’m thrilled to have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a member (or members) of the Board of Contributing Editors! Thank you!!! It was such an honor to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
Reading in Philly Friday April 17, 2020 at the Popular Culture Association National Conference!
I’m going to Philadelphia in April to read poems from my forthcoming book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press). I’m reading Friday April 17, 2020 at 6:30 as part of the Popular Culture Association 2020 National Conference. Swing on by if you’re in the area. Plus the conference is just crazy packed with great stuff, including featured speakers Terry Gross and Kevin Willmott!
3 Poems Accepted at Sou’wester!
Delighted to share the news that Sou’wester has accepted my three 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!
“On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” Accepted at Zone 3!
Thrilled to share the news that my poem “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” has been accepted for publication at Zone 3 Literary Journal! Melon balls, woolly mammoths, UFOs, honey bees, tungsten light bulbs, and Julius Caesar all in 38 lines. Thank you to Andrea Spofford and all at Zone 3 Press.
Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology!
Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!
You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!
3 Collaborative Prose Poems Accepted at Denver Quarterly!
Delighted to share the news that the Denver Quarterly just accepted three poems: “Ants Gather at the Puncture,” “Government Wine,” and “Itty Bitty City” — all collaborative prose poems from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.
3 Poems Accepted at The Iowa Review!
Hot-diggety! Xmas has come a wee bit early. The Iowa Review just accepted three (!!!) of my poems: “Air Damp As the Back of the Throat,” “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up,” and “What I’m Left With.” I’m gonna sit down and try to start breathing normally again.
My Collaborator Dustin Nightingale at the Mark Twain House fundraising gala
My friend and oft poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale types poems on demand at this year’s gala fundraiser for the Mark Twain House in Hartford Connecticut. (Photos by Sean Patrick Fowler.)
Pushcart Prize Nomination from Raleigh Review!
My poem “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin” has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize by the Raleigh Review, where it appeared in their Spring 2019 issue. Thanks so much Bryce Emley and the rest of the Raleigh Review crew!
You can read the poem for free online in the archive for the issue HERE.
Fall Visiting Writer at Cayuga College!
Thank you to Mark Montgomery and Richard Bower for inviting me to be this fall’s Visiting Writer at Cayuga College, a tradition going back more than 30 years and including the likes of writers like George Saunders and Robert Bly. I had a blast reading my poems for the students, responding to their thoughtful questions, sharing a craft essay, talking about publishing, and doing some writing together. Such a full and inspiring experience. Thank you most of all to the students of Cayuga Community College, at both the Auburn and the Fulton Campuses. Your smiles and generosity warmed my way through this early winter deep freeze!
