Category Archives: Acceptance

The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy Has Been Accepted!

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I am overjoyed, over-the-moon, overwhelmed and quite frickin’ excited to announce that my first poetry book manuscript, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, has been selected for publication by Steel Toe Books, an independent poetry press founded in 2003, directed by Tom C. Hunley and associated with Western Kentucky University.

I love this press and I’m so excited that they’ll be publishing my book, which is scheduled to appear in the first quarter of 2015.

It is indeed a Happy New Year!

[Author photo above looking a bit pensive with an early version of the manuscript taped up on my office wall, wondering if it would ever find a home…]

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

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I’m delighted to announce that two of my unpublished poems have been accepted for the forthcoming anthology Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland published by Ice Cube Press. You can peruse a complete list of the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction contributors and titles HERE.

Thank you editors Lance M. Sacknoff, Xavier Cavazos, and Stefanie Brook Trout!

Trees: Symbols of Powerful Experiences

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Two of my poems have been chosen to be part of the juried visual art and poetry show Trees: Symbols of Powerful Experience in the gallery at The Tech Garden here in Syracuse, NY. The show is curated by artist-in-residence Maria Rizzo.

My chosen poems are “Our Apple Trees” (first published as a broadside by Thrush Press) and “Kindling Me” (first published in Salamander).

The opening ceremony, including food, live music and awards, will be from 5-8 pm on November 21, 2013. The full exhibition runs from November 14 to December 31, 2013, Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm.

Thank you Maria Rizzo and Poetry Juror Lindsey Bellosa!

Event Info

Article at Syracuse.com, November 5, 2013

Essay in the Colorado Review

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A personal essay I wrote this spring just got accepted by the Colorado Review today for their spring 2014 issue. Four hours after I got that acceptance, and agreed to it, (before I even had time to withdraw it from other journals) I got an email from another amazing journal also accepting it. Two acceptances for the same piece in the same day. That is a new one for me, and I’m still floored.

This is my first full essay acceptance, and that it was from the Colorado Review is a dream come true.

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio

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I recently received happy news of developments in the anthology of southern Ohio literature, edited by poet Neil Carpathios, which will contain three of my poems (two unpublished and one previously published in The Cincinnati Review). The anthology now has a title, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, a publisher, Ohio University Press (from my alma mater!), and a publication date of fall 2014.

This will be the first time my writing will be included in an anthology, and I am honored and extremely excited.

Nashville Review

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Cover by Bianca Stone

I’m so excited to announce that the Nashville Review has accepted one of my poems for their Spring 2013 issue! I have loved this online journal since discovering two poems by Ross Gay (“Grace” &  “Ode to the Flute“) in their fourth issue. I also enjoy the fact that they include oral storytelling, dance, music (e.g. Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, & Efterklang), film, interviews, and comics in their issues, in addition to poetry, fiction, and essays by people such as D. A. Powell, Tyehimba Jess, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Norman Dubie, Naomi Shihab Nye, Blas Falconer, Ben Loory, and Sean Bishop. Thanks Editors Chris Adamson and Cara Dees and Nashville Review!

Toad Suck Review

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Toad Suck Review, the literary journal of the Department of Writing in the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Central Arkansas, has just accepted five poems from a series of collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with the poet Dustin Nightingale. Previous poems from this series have been accepted by Yemassee (19.2) and Beecher’s (forthcoming). Thank you Editor Mark Spitzer and Toad Suck Review!