I’m delighted to announce that The Southampton Review has accepted my poem “He Must Have Gone To Sleep Eventually.”
This poem is particularly close to my heart as I consider it to be the centerpiece of my second poetry book manuscript, which is currently in its umpteenth draft version.
Thank you to Lou Ann Walker and the other SHR Editors!
It’s a gorgeous autumn day here in Syracuse — chill, gray and rainy with gangs of crows hopping between the trees and making swears above our heads. And it just got even better…
I’m delighted to announce that my poem “Bring Me With You” has just been accepted at Columbia Poetry Review.
Thank you Cora Jacobs and the other Columbia Poetry Review Editors!
I’m elated to announce that my creative nonfiction essay “An Elephant Walks into a McDonalds” has just been published in the fall 2015 issue of Boulevard. This traditional essay is a memoir account of two prison arts outreach experiences I have had: the first in the 1990s at Washington DC’s Lorton Prison as an observer with Living Stage, and the second in the 2000s as a guest poet at a jail outside Lawrence, Kansas.
This is the second essay that I have had published and it’s a thrill to have it appear in Boulevard. Thank you to Jessica Rogen and the other Boulevard Editors!
I’m all atingle to announce that my poem “We Come Here Every Day So You’ve Already Won” has been selected as an Honorable Mention in the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Contest, judged by Andrew Hudgins.
Congratulations to the winner Peter Kline, and the other poets who placed and received honorable mentions, including Allison Joseph, Brian Brodeur, Austin Allen, Zeina Hashem Beck, Heather Altfield.
Thanks to Richard Newman, judge Andrew Hudgins, and the other River Styx Editors!
I’m thrilled to announce that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” was selected as a finalist for this year’s Rattle Poetry Prize. Another poem of mine was also chosen for publication in a later issue..
Thanks Timothy Green and the other Rattle editors!
On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7 PM I’ll be reading poetry along with Jeffrey Harrison at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY as part of their Fall 2015 Visiting Author Reading Series. The event is free and open to the public. Please come!
A huge, massive, thundering thank you to Phil Memmer, Georgia Popoff, and to my students and my fellow instructors at The Downtown Writer’s Center August Occasion Writing Retreat last month at the Harding Farm in Clinton, NY. That was an amazing and inspiring day.
This was also the first time I read aloud from my new book, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. An experience I won’t ever forget.
I’m delighted to announce that my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award” has been accepted for publication in Crab Creek Review.
It was chosen as one of the semifinalists for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Congrats to the winner, Laura Read, and the other poems that placed.
Thank you Martha Silano and the other Crab Creek Review editors!
Two of the collaborative prose poems that I have been writing with the poet Dustin Nightingale have just been accepted at DIAGRAM. A sweet, sweet wonderfulness. Thanks EA Ramey and the other DIAGRAM editors!
Three prose poems from a series I’ve been writing in collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale have been published in the new issue of