With a steaming cup of chowder on the ferry off of Martha’s Vineyard I toast thank you to all the wonderful people who came out for my lyric essay class yesterday and my poetry reading and book signing today. Thank you to Carolina and Merissa for your help and hospitality. Thank you to everyone for making my winter visit to the vineyard cozy and warm! Can’t wait to come back in June for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing tenth anniversary!
Thank you Kate Feiffer of the The Martha’s Vineyard Times for this beautiful, generous article about my lyric essay class and poetry reading this weekend at the Oak Bluffs Library on Martha’s Vineyard! If you’re in the area come on by! Both my class (Fri 1/25 3:30-5:30) and my reading (Sat 1/26 10:30-11:30 am) are free and open to the public, thanks to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series.
Read the article HERE.
Delighted to receive the news that The Cincinnati Review has accepted my micro-fiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” for their miCRo series.
I love what they publish in this series, such as this recent piece, “Any Body,” by Sarah Freligh.
Delighted to receive the news tonight that my poem “Calling For One Another When We’re Right There” has been accepted at The Cortland Review. These good folks were kind enough to have published my poem “Help! I’m Floating!” in issue 46 way back in 2010. My how the winds of time do blow…
As another blizzard prepares to descend upon us here in Syracuse, I’m curling up around the warm glow of the new issue of Sixth Finch which contains my poems, “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basin,” as well as stellar new poems by folks such as Rachel Bennett, Lauren Camp, Bill Carty, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Adam Tavel, and more! It’s such a thrill to have my poetry in Sixth Finch again. A thousand thanks to Rob MacDonald and Jaime Zuckerman!
My micro-fiction “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals To Get at the Good Stuff” has just been published online by The Spectacle. Complete with a wonderful illustration! Huge thanks to Kelly Caldwell and the rest of The Spectacle crew!
Read it HERE.
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard in a few weeks to offer a creative writing class on the lyric essay and to give a poetry reading – as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series. Both the class and reading are free and open to the public. If you’re in the area come on by!
The Year-Round Visiting Writers Series highlights local and national writers and offers free creative writing workshops and readings to the Vineyard community.
Learn more here: http://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/mvicw-writing-series-the-poetic-essay-writing-seminar/
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basins” have just been accepted at Sixth Finch! It’s so great to have work forthcoming again in one of my favorite journals–they were good enough to publish my poem “The Sweet of Being Made Right” in the winter 2016 issue.
(I thought I’d post the photograph that inspired one of the poems, from a weekend Adirondack cabin getaway last winter. You’ll have to imagine the sound of massive trees popping in the frigid cold yourself.)
As the snow begins to fall, I’ve received an early present, news that my micro-fiction, “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals to Get at the Good Stuff,” has been accepted by The Spectacle.
Delighted to receive the news that my poem “As If It Didn’t Need Me” has been accepted for publication at DIAGRAM. This will be the second time I’ll have had work there, since they were good enough to publish two of my collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale in 2016.