Thrilled to share the news that my poem “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” has been accepted for publication at Zone 3 Literary Journal! Melon balls, woolly mammoths, UFOs, honey bees, tungsten light bulbs, and Julius Caesar all in 38 lines. Thank you to Andrea Spofford and all at Zone 3 Press.
Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!
You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!
Delighted to share the news that the Denver Quarterly just accepted three poems: “Ants Gather at the Puncture,” “Government Wine,” and “Itty Bitty City” — all collaborative prose poems from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.
Hot-diggety! Xmas has come a wee bit early. The Iowa Review just accepted three (!!!) of my poems: “Air Damp As the Back of the Throat,” “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up,” and “What I’m Left With.” I’m gonna sit down and try to start breathing normally again.
I’m thrilled to share the news that my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” has been accepted by the Bellingham Review. I’ve long loved this literary journal and their commitment to lyric and hybrid essays. It’s such a delight that they’ll be publishing this essay.
It’s the last of my four essays inspired by the four classical elements to have found a home–this is my water essay and touches on Jaws, Altered States, fishing, drowning, the Bermuda Triangle, etc. Now I need to finish the last two essays of my following series based on the four fundamental forces in physics. I’m currently knee deep in the Strong Force and have to find a 4000 word essay inside the *gulp* 14,000 words of rough draft I’ve so far spun.
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Sick of Sick” will appear in the anthology Show Us Your Papers forthcoming from Main Street Rag. Thank you editors Wendy Scott Paff, Daniela Buccilli, and Cherise A. Pollard!
P.S. submissions are open until the end of August!
Delighted to learn that the good folks at Hobart have accepted my poems “A Crow Saying Caw Not Cawing” and “It Worked Out a Way to Survive” for publication next month!
Halfway into this amazing week teaching and talking writing at the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, I’m delighted to learn that my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw it and Call That the Sun” has been accepted for the next New Poetry from the Midwest anthology from New American Press!
Massive thank yous to the good editor folks of Bear Review for accepting “Where There Are No People for No Music I Hear Music,” “The Scraping of So Much All Our Breaths,” and “Isn’t This Nice the Way We Stay Awake” — three collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale.
Holy moly!!! My second poetry book manuscript has WON the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Thank you judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis! Thank you Dana Curtis! And thank you to everyone who has been supportive and encouraging on my journey to get my second poetry book published–I am truly grateful. It’s so incredibly, heart-thumpingly delightful that “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” has found a home at Elixir Press!!!