My poems “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” have just been published by The Bakery, with audio of me reading in my backyard complete with crows cawing and dogs barking.
If you haven’t yet visited The Bakery, you’ll want to. They publish a piping hot poem every day of the week, by the likes of Matthew Cooperman, Joshua Young, Nick Sturm, Rob MacDonald, K.M.A. Sullivan & Nate Pritts, plus Monthly Specials such as October’s with Timothy Liu. The Bakery is edited by Albert Abonado. Thanks Al!
My poem “I Keep a List of What I Must” has just been published on The 22 Magazine Blog.
You can read the poem here.
This poem is from the manuscript-in-process of my untitled second book of poetry. (My first, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, hasn’t found a publisher yet, but I’m pressing on regardless.) It’s built around poems begun during my five month stint living with my girlfriend and our black cat in an apartment over Main Street in a very small Ohio village (pop. 800) last year, moving in the day before Fall Festival and out the day after Xmas.
I am very excited about the poems I’m working on for my second book, and this is the first one of them to see the light of print. Others so far are forthcoming from journals such as Salamander, The Southeast Review, and The Los Angeles Review and an anthology of literature about Southern Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios.
Today the mailman brought me my copy of On the Cusp no. 5 in which I have two poems, “She Rattles Dishes” and “Grasslands.” The theme of this issue is Hunt. You can purchase a copy for five bucks by going here. On the Cusp is a collaborative zine based in Chicago with elegance and beauty — the full color art in this issue is really wonderful, especially Clare Vernon’s exquisite photograph of a doe curled in the bed of a pickup truck. I hope it was only sleeping there. Their next issue’s theme is Who. Thanks Rachel, Clare & Wesley!
To my delight, in the last week I have had two poems accepted by The Bakery and one by The 22 Magazine Blog. Autumn is good.
Three of my poems have just been accepted for an upcoming anthology of southern Ohio literature edited by the poet Neil Carpathios. One of the poems is an older one written while driving down to my brother’s farm in Ohio and was published a few years ago in The Cincinnati Review. I had to pull off the highway to get the poem down on paper as it had started spontaneously flying out of my head while I was driving. The other two are brand new poems, from my second book-length manuscript, focusing around my time last year living in an apartment above Main Street in an Ohio village (pop. 800).
This is the first time my work has been included in an anthology. I am overjoyed, to say the least.
Happy news for the start of autumn! My prose poems “She Rattles Dishes” and “Grasslands” have been accepted by On the Cusp for their upcoming fifth issue, scheduled to be released in early October. You can purchase their previous issues HERE.
The wonderful folks at Superstition Review, who published four of my poems in Issue 9, have just podcasted audio of me reading the poems in my library, with the cat locked out so she wouldn’t keep meowing into the microphone, and video of me reading them in the wonderful weeds and brush behind our house and on the playground of a local elementary school. The video was shot on my girlfriend’s Android phone, so it’s lofi (a.k.a. blurry).
Thank you Superstition Review!
This summer, for NANO Fiction’s blog series The State of Flash, I surveyed some of my writer friends about why they write prose poetry or flash fiction. The responses I got were thoughtful, funny, insightful, sometimes frightening, and even lyrical.
The short essay was featured online yesterday, and you can read it HERE.
Thanks Kirby Johnson & NANO Fiction!
My poems “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” and “New Year’s Resolution TBA” have been accepted by Brad Liening for his online literary journal SCUD. Under the dark SCUD skies you can already read amazing new poems by the likes of Gregory Lawless, Ben Nardolilli, and Rob MacDonald.
The broadside of my poem “Our Apple Trees” has just been published by Thrush Press. It’s available for $3.50 (S&H included).
To order a broadside, you just login to your own PayPal account, and send $3.50 to account: hvitoria@msn.com. Indicate which Broadside you are ordering with either name of poem(s) or poet(s), and the number of each desired, in the notes section on Paypal or in an email to hvitoria@msn.com.
Each broadside is handmade, stamped, and backed with art paper of different patterns. It’s a beautiful object and I’m proud to have my poem published in such a form. The poem itself is inspired by the old Amish farms in Ohio where my dad used to take me wild mushroom picking when I was a kid.
The above is a photograph of some of them which I just took in my backyard with the neighbor watching me, probably wondering why I was decorating an evergreen tree in August.