Even the sub-arctic chill of this polar vortex can’t cool the thrill of receiving my copies of The Florida Review, which contains my lyric essay “Root That Mountain.” I’ve shared the first three pages here. This essay is from my series on the four elements; it’s the dirt essay. Thank you to my friends J Keirn-Swanson and Dustin Nightingale for letting me interview them for it. Thank you to Lisa Roney, Mike Shier, and the rest of The Florida Review staff.
Wonderful to learn tonight that my poems “The Answer the Question in Your Mind Rosemary” and “Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse” have been accepted at Arts & Letters. Here’s a photo I took last summer of the lighthouse on Block Island that inspired one of the poems.
Delighted to receive the news that my poem “I’m Back Here I’m Paddling Too” has been accepted for publication in Poetry Northwest! This will be my second appearance in PN since they were kind enough to publish my poem “We Give Ourselves New Medals (We Give Ourselves a Chance)” back in the winter/spring 2016 issue.
With a steaming cup of chowder on the ferry off of Martha’s Vineyard I toast thank you to all the wonderful people who came out for my lyric essay class yesterday and my poetry reading and book signing today. Thank you to Carolina and Merissa for your help and hospitality. Thank you to everyone for making my winter visit to the vineyard cozy and warm! Can’t wait to come back in June for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing tenth anniversary!
Thank you Kate Feiffer of the The Martha’s Vineyard Times for this beautiful, generous article about my lyric essay class and poetry reading this weekend at the Oak Bluffs Library on Martha’s Vineyard! If you’re in the area come on by! Both my class (Fri 1/25 3:30-5:30) and my reading (Sat 1/26 10:30-11:30 am) are free and open to the public, thanks to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series.
Read the article HERE.
Delighted to receive the news that The Cincinnati Review has accepted my micro-fiction “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” for their miCRo series.
I love what they publish in this series, such as this recent piece, “Any Body,” by Sarah Freligh.
Delighted to receive the news tonight that my poem “Calling For One Another When We’re Right There” has been accepted at The Cortland Review. These good folks were kind enough to have published my poem “Help! I’m Floating!” in issue 46 way back in 2010. My how the winds of time do blow…
As another blizzard prepares to descend upon us here in Syracuse, I’m curling up around the warm glow of the new issue of Sixth Finch which contains my poems, “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basin,” as well as stellar new poems by folks such as Rachel Bennett, Lauren Camp, Bill Carty, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Adam Tavel, and more! It’s such a thrill to have my poetry in Sixth Finch again. A thousand thanks to Rob MacDonald and Jaime Zuckerman!
My micro-fiction “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals To Get at the Good Stuff” has just been published online by The Spectacle. Complete with a wonderful illustration! Huge thanks to Kelly Caldwell and the rest of The Spectacle crew!
Read it HERE.
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard in a few weeks to offer a creative writing class on the lyric essay and to give a poetry reading – as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series. Both the class and reading are free and open to the public. If you’re in the area come on by!
The Year-Round Visiting Writers Series highlights local and national writers and offers free creative writing workshops and readings to the Vineyard community.
Learn more here: http://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/mvicw-writing-series-the-poetic-essay-writing-seminar/