Delighted to learn that the good folks at Hobart have accepted my poems “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” and “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” for publication next month!
Our LiterarY Dinner!
Thank you to everyone who came to our LiterarY Dinner yesterday in support of the Arts Branch of the Syracuse YMCA. We’re overjoyed by the amount we raised! Thank you to our readers, Jessica Cuello and David Lloyd, and to Bob Early for your music. Having our backyard full of poetry, song, and fiction as the colors of the evening passed overhead… What a joy!
“It’s Something People in Love Do” Published in A Constellation of Kisses
What a delight to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in A Constellation of Kisses, the new anthology from Terrapin Books. Thank you so much to editor Diane Lockward. 100 poems about kissing, written by the likes of Kim Addonizio, Denise Duhamel, Jeffrey Harrison, Allison Joseph, David Kirby, Dorianne Laux…just to name just a very few. Yes please!
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference!
What an awesome, regenerative, inspiring week of talking about poems and creating new poems with these extraordinary writers, the members of my Generative Poetry Workshop at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference in Paul Smith’s College. Thank you thank you thank you everyone!
“If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” Accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology
Halfway into this amazing week teaching and talking writing at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, I’m delighted to learn that my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” has been accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology from New American Press!
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference!
What a wonderful opening evening at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference last night here in Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks. It was such a joy to share the reading stage with fiction writer extraordinaire Brock Clarke! This is going to be a great week of teaching writing in the mountains, surrounded by the tall pines, and the geese, and the loons and…maybe…mooses?
Sarah E. Ruhlen’s “He Wasn’t There The Next Day”
One year ago my partner and I participated in Ander Monson’s June 21 project, where we each wrote a nonfiction essay about what happened to us on June 21, 2018. Monson has now edited a pdf anthology of 25 essays out of the 250 originally published, and Sarah’s “He Wasn’t There The Next Day” was chosen! It’s beautifully designed, published by New Michigan Press, with new introductions and suggestions for teaching! You can download the anthology for free from Essay Daily HERE. Congratulations sweetie!
Sarah E. Ruhlen’s “Open Water”
My clever, creative, amazing partner Sarah’s short story “Open Water” has just been published in the new issue of The Boiler. You’ll want to read it. It’s got a chain smoking mermaid in it. See what I mean? Congratulations sweetie!
Read her story HERE.
3 Collaborations Written with Dustin Nightingale Accepted at Bear Review!
Massive thank yous to the good editor folks of Bear Review for accepting “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music,” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths,” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake” — three collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale.
MVICW 2019 Goodbye Fellow Faculty!
What an amazing week at the tenth anniversary of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing with my fellow faculty. You are all inspiring, delightful, sweet people and I’m honored to know you all.