I’ll be teaching again this summer at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (June 9-15, 2019). It’s our 10th year! I’m also the poetry judge for this year’s writing contest. The deadline’s March 25, so you’ve still got almost a week to submit! Two winners will be awarded full tuition and lodging to attend the Summer Writers’ Conference, and two additional winners will be awarded partial tuition ($500 toward Tuition). Entries are judged anonymously. https://www.mvicw.com/contest
Last night’s release party for Stone Canoe no. 13 at The Downtown Writer’s Center was such a blast! What an honor and a delight to be the guest Poetry Editor for this issue! Thank you to everyone who sent in your poems for consideration and to the 25 poets whose work appears in the issue. It was such a joy to hear poetry readings by Laura Donnelly, Devon Branca, Genoa Wilson, and Jackie Craven (apologies for my blurry cell photos). Huge thanks to the diligent Assistant Editors Judy Carr, Cindy Ostuni, and Gloria Heffernan — your wise work has paid off in a beautiful issue and you should be proud. Thank you to Managing Editor Carol Biesemeyer for your many considerations. And thank you again to Phil Memmer for inviting me to be a part of this issue. Everyone should order a copy and chase the winter blues away with all the poems, fiction, nonfiction…there’s also a play, interviews with Alison Lurie and Edward Hower, a trove of visual art! Long live Stone Canoe!
On Saturday April 27, 2019, I’ll be reading my poetry along with these seven other wonderfuls at the Brewerton Center for the Arts, just north of Syracuse on the shores of Oneida Lake. If you’re in the area, come on by! https://www.brewertoncenterforthearts.org/
Snazzy graphic, eh? 🙂
Thrilled to be a part of this poetry line-up in the forthcoming issue of Raleigh Review! 🙂
I’m thrilled to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize again this year. It was a dream come true to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
Delighted to hear that the manuscript of my second poetry book, “Gullier,” was selected as a semi-finalist in The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. And huge congratulations to the winner Katie Condon and the other runners up and finalists!
Huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out to my poetry reading last night as part of the LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts Branch of the Syracuse YMCA in support of all the amazing and necessary work they do in the community. Thank you again to Joe and Mary for hosting us and to Phil Memmer for inviting me to read and for cooking such amazing Indian food (Sarah sends thanks for her “carry out” 🙂 ) And thank you to Meredith and Nancy for the photos! What a warm and wonderful evening!
The January/February issue of decomP just hit the digital newsstands and even if I weren’t its poetry editor I’d feel like celebrating. Read and enjoy the winter warmth of so much literary goodness!
http://www.decompmagazine.com/
FLASH PROSE
Raymond Deej, J. R. Gerow, Robert Garner McBrearty, Robin Small
SHORT PROSE
Andrew Reichard
POETRY
Glen Armstrong, Bruce Bond, Abigail Goodhart, Amorak Huey, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jon Riccio, Dawn Tefft, mica yarrow woods
BOOK REVIEWS
A Review of Veterans Crisis Hotline by Jon Chopan, A Review of How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? by Carolyn Guinzio, A Review of pungent dins concentric by Vanessa Couto Johnson, A Review of Ghostographs: An Album by Maria Romasco Moore
My microfiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has just been published online at The Cincinnati Review as part of their miCRo Series. Please click the link below to read it, or to listen to the audio of me reading it to you! 🙂 Thank so much Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, and the rest of the kind folks at The Cincinnati Review!
Read/listen HERE!