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

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.

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

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!

“We Give Ourselves New Medals (We Give Ourselves a Chance)” in Poetry Northwest

Hi friends. This gray Syracuse spring day can’t dim the excitement of flipping through my contributor copy of Poetry Northwest, which contains my poem “We Give Ourselves New Medals (We Give Ourselves a Chance)” along with poetry by Keith Leonard, Keetje Kuipers, Traci Brimhall, Zach Savich, Nance van Winckel, Christopher Kempf, Kelly Davio, Bruce Bond, Jeffrey Morgan, the list goes wonderfully on… Thanks so much Aaron Barrell and Kevin J Craft!