New South

The sun finally came out this week in Syracuse. I saw a daffodil today along the highway.

My poem “Wings Like Powerful Versions of Me” has been accepted by New South and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks Hank Backer and the other New South editors!


I won this year’s Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art

I am floored, jazzed, honored and breathless to announce that my poem “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like” has been selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly to win this year’s Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art . It will appear in issue 53.

Thanks so much to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!

Creative Nonfiction Accepted at Boulevard

I’m excited to share the news that my nonfiction essay “An Elephant Walks Into a McDonalds” has been accepted for publication in Boulevard.

The essay is a memoir account of two prison arts outreach experiences I have had. The first was in the 1990s at Washington DC’s Lorton Prison as an observer with Living Stage, and the second was in the 2000s as a guest poet at a jail outside Lawrence, Kansas.

This is the second personal essay I have had accepted for publication. The first one, “Go Away and Stay Right Here,” was published last year in Colorado Review. You can purchase a paper copy of that Spring 2014 issue for $10 or a pdf for $5 HERE.

Thank you Jessica Rogen and Boulevard!