I’m judging this year’s Annual Poetry Award at Elixir Press!

I’m delighted to announce that I’m this year’s final judge for the 23rd Annual Poetry Award at Elixir Press! I’m so excited to read your manuscript and help a new poetry book come into the world!

Entries accepted from Aug 1 to Oct 31. The prize is $2,000 and publication of your poetry book! For details & to enter, visit: http://elixirpress.com/guidelines/annual-poetry-awards

Note: close friends, students, and former students of the final judges or editors of Elixir Press are ineligible. 😀

Happy 1st birthday to my 2nd poetry book!

My book is 1 year old! Happy birthday to my second poetry book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award and published by Elixir Press! My book and I would like to say a huge, quivering THANK YOU to everyone for reading it and for being so awesome about it over these 12 months.

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If you’d like a signed copy, you can order one from my website. (I’ll mail it out with a bright yellow lemon sticker on the front of the package which makes our local postal clerk Vinnie say, “Sold another book, did you? Good job!”

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You can also buy a regular copy just from Bookshop dot org, Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and elsewhere!

My new book is in the world!

Hot diggity! I just got my first box of books!!! My second poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, is in the world! The book is officially released on April 1, 2021.
You can order a signed copy from me right now here.
You can order a regular copy from Small Press Distribution or Amazon.
If you’re a reviewer, request a review copy from me!
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Thank you to judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for selecting it to win the Antivenom Poetry Prize.
Thank you to Dana Curtis and Elixir Press for making such a beautiful book.
Thank you to Amanda Friedman for your luminous photograph which graces the cover.
And thank you to my partner Sarah, to whom it is dedicated, for that champagne celebration last night!

Getting closer to…If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun!

I’m giddy-thrilled to have just sent in my comments on the latest round of proofs for my second book of poetry, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press. It’s really starting to feel real. I can almost touch it!

My 2nd Book Has Won Elixir Press’ 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award!

Holy moly!!! My second poetry book manuscript has WON the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Thank you judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis! Thank you Dana Curtis! And thank you to everyone who has been supportive and encouraging on my journey to get my second poetry book published–I am truly grateful. It’s so incredibly, heart-thumpingly delightful that “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” has found a home at Elixir Press!!!