My long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” has just been published online in the new issue of Blackbird. I haven’t written longer poems in a long time, and this is one of the 3 that I wrote last year in a kind of new experiment. I’m delighted beyond measure that it found a home in Blackbird! Thank you again to everyone at Blackbird!!!
You can read the whole poem here:
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/birds-stars-suite/
Wow!! Blackbird just accepted my poem “Birds and Stars Suite.” This is one of the long poems that I’ve been writing since the summer, and it’s a great shot in the arm to have this validation of my new experimentation. Thank you thank you thank you to Caroline Richards and everyone at Blackbird! This will be my second appearance in Blackbird, and I’m celebrating as jubilantly as that first one!
I am loop-de-loop delighted to share the publication of my poem “Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us” in the new issue of blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. It’s an honor and a joy to have my poem appear in this issue alongside work by the likes of Kaveh Akbar, Roy Bentley, Michelle Boisseau, Victoria Chang, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Iain Haley Pollock, Nancy Reddy…to name just a few. Thank you to Brandie Gray, Victoria C. Flanagan, and the rest of the blackbird crew!
Read the poem HERE.