My poem “Even The Best of Us Are Generally Waiting” has just been published in the Fall 2014 issue of The Pinch (check out their snazzy new website).
This issue isn’t available to purchase online yet, but when it is you can get new writing by the likes of Nick Courtright, Bethany Carlson, Adam Clay, Mike Young, and lots of other great people HERE.
Thanks Pinch editors!
I’m overjoyed to receive my copy of Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, edited by Lance M. Sacknoff, Xavier Cavazos and Stefanie Brook Trout (Ice Cube Press, 2014).
This anthology contains my poems “One Kitchen One Afternoon” and “Whatchamacallit.”
It has a wealth of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about, concerning, set, dissecting, celebrating, criticizing and et cetera the American Midwest.
Learn more about the book and grab yourself a copy HERE.
A facebook page containing news of readings and otherwise related to the anthology is HERE.
My poem “A Raising” has just been published in the online journal Rappahannock Review. You can read the poem HERE.
The theme of this issue is Appetite, and it features a healthy plateful of poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
This poem is from my first book, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, which will be published in 2015 by Steel Toe Books.
Thanks again Eric Turner, Moira McAvoy and the other Rappahannock Review editors!
My unpublished poem “Gathering a Few Facts” has been chosen to appear in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, guest edited by Dorianne Laux.
The anthology comes out this November. You can see a list of the 50 poets/poems chosen HERE.
A facebook announcement with pictures of the poets is HERE.
I am honored and seriously excited by this happy news. Thanks so much BNP editors, Jazzy Danziger and Dorianne Laux!
Two collaborative prose poems, written with Dustin Nightingale, have been accepted at The Chattahoochee Review. Thank you editors Michael Diebert and Lydia Ship!
The good folks over at Verse Daily have featured my poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week,” originally published in The Southeast Review!
This is the fourth time they have featured a poem of mine. Thanks Verse Daily!
“The Weight of Everything,” a prose poem written in collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale, has just been accepted for publication in Inter|rupture. Thank you Curtis Perdue and Katherine Factor!
Above image from the June 2014 issue. Art by Henrique Lima.
My prose poem “The Nearness of You” has just been published in the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Ninth Letter.
Thank you Ninth Letter editors!
To celebrate, you can go listen to the great Johnny Hartman sing “The Nearness of You” as written by Hoagy Carmichael HERE.
My poem “Even The Best of Us Are Generally Waiting” has been accepted for publication by The Pinch.
Thank you Pinch editors!
Someone posted the Broadsided broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That,” illustrated by Amy Meissner, on the door to the MFA office at UMass Boston.
If I could hug them, I surely would.