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My poem “Bone Above Our Heart” published today at Poetry Northwest!

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Today Poetry Northwest published my poem, “Bone Above Our Heart,” as their weekly online poem. My heart is running around its living room, waving its arms, smashing into things, getting up, and running around some more! This was the first of the long poems I started writing a couple years ago. I drafted it during one summer’s travels in a little homemade notebook made for the purpose, alternating verse fragments with overheard bits of speech in Martha’s Vineyard, Paul Smith’s College, Block Island, Hartford CN, a home recording made by James Tate, a Costco parking lot, Lowe’s Lawn & Garden, and my own backyard. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Bone Above Our Heart

My long poem “Bone Above Our Heart” accepted at Poetry Northwest!!

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Oh.My.Goodness. Poetry Northwest just accepted my long poem “Bone Above Our Heart” one of the poetic experiments I started 2 summers ago, carrying around a special notebook during my travels, collecting images, bits of overheard dialogue, to build a long poem from (it’s 5 pages, which is long for me). I’m over-the-moon to have this poem appear in Poetry Northwest. It’ll be my third appearance in this awesome journal! Thank you so much Bill Carty, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan, Keetje Kuipers, and everyone at PN!

Blackbird has accepted my poem “Birds and Stars Suite”!

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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!