Hi friends. My poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” — a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and published in issue 50 — has been posted today at Rattle.com for all to read. Go HERE to read the poem in full.
You can also listen to me perform the poem at a live reading I gave at The Downtown Writer’s Center here in Syracuse last October.
Thanks again Timothy Green and the rest of the Rattle crew!
On this frigid March morning it’s a joy to share the news that my poems “A Mud Puddle Shaped Mud Puddle,” “Lunch Hour Is an Hour of Our Lives,” and “The Stars Are Out and They’re Trying to Get Your Attention” have been accepted for publication by Pool. Thank you Patty Seyburn & Judith Taylor!
Two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale — “9 Lives and 8 Legs” and “In My Dreams I’m in a Small Capsule Spinning Free” — have been published today in Powder Keg issue 7. Plus there’s audio of us reading the poems together, which is a first for us. Head over HERE for a read and a listen! Thanks so much Editors Sarah Jean Grimm, Zoe Dzunko, and Rebecca Bates!
As the flowers begin their tentative, premature piercings of the frozen topsoil here in sunny Syracuse, tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the publication of my first book of poetry, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. Thanks again to the wonderful poets who generously provided blurbs for my book: Erika Meitner, Catherine Bowman, Maurice Manning, and Amy Gerstler! Thank you to everyone who has read it, including those kind souls who have rated and reviewed it on Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads. It’s been a great year! If you’d like a copy, you can buy one from Amazon, Barnes and Noble Online, or direct from the publisher Steel Toe Books. If you’d like to request a review copy, just contact me directly. And thanks again for reading!
Hi friends. I’m thunderingly delighted to have received my contributor copies of Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence published by White Pines Press. This anthology contains five prose poems from my ongoing sequence called The Little Book of Monsters. Its 300+ pages also contain sequences by a host of amazing poets and writers including Nin Andrews, Carol Guess, Gian Lombardo, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Julie Marie Wade, Gary Young, and Jim (yes, that Jim) Harrison. There are sequences of prose poems, flash fictions, lyric essays, fairy tales, koans, epistolary address, and other cross-genre work. Thank you editors Robert Alexander, Eric Braun, and Debra Marquart and the entire Marie Alexander Poetry Series team for creating this amazing anthology!
My poem “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart” — which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize — has just been published in their print issue #9. You can read the poem HERE. Holy moly! Look at that cover (Sleeping Giants by Jillian Nickell)! I want to live in that house on top of that mountainous monster. If you only know Booth from their online presence, do yourself a favor and get this thing of beauty. The art design, illustrations, end pages, French flaps…it’s gorgeous. To say nothing of all the great poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Thanks so much Robert Stapleton, Chris Speckman, Rachel Sahaidachny and the rest of the Booth team!
As winter sunlight crawls slowly across the snow today, I’m excited to have received my contributor copies of River Styx Issue 95 which contains my work poem “We Come Here Every Day So You’re Already Won,” an Honorable Mention for the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Prize. What a bounty of literary goodies, including work by Cate Lycurgus, Thomas Lux, Doug Ramspeck, Bruce Bond, Richard Cecil, Amit Majmudar, Cornelius Eady, Michael Czyzniejewski, Peter Kline, Allison Joseph, Brian Brodeur, Zeina Hashem Beck to name but a few! The great cover is by Theo R. Welling, who has more dog show photos inside. Thanks again Richard Newman, Lizzy Petersen, Jyl Brady and the other River Styx readers and editors!
I’m delighted to have received my contributor copies of Redivider 13.1, which contains my poem “Barely Managing the Houseplants Thing.” What a fantastic and beautiful issue packed with great fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art. You can even buy an e-book version of it for $5 HERE. Thanks again Poetry Editor John Allen Taylor and the rest of the Redivider staff!
My poem “The Sweet of Being Made Right” has been published today in the new issue of Sixth Finch. As usual, it’s a smashing issue and I’m elated to be a part of it! Thanks again Rob MacDonald, Dara Cerv and the Sixth Finch crew! You can read the poem HERE.
