That little yelp of joy you might have heard just now was me, sorry, going through the proofs of my craft essay, “On Giving Up: Its Uses and Benefits in the Writing Life,” which will appear in The American Poetry Review‘s July/August issue. Even typing that out I still can’t believe that it’s true. Sigh… I’m getting ready to give a yelp again. Sorry. đŸ˜€
Oh golly! Conduit just accepted my poem “How the Sun Got Crushed That One Monday” and I’m dancing around the house making yippee noises! Thank you to William Waltz and the rest of the Conduit Magazine crew!
Wow wow!!! Alaska Quarterly Review accepted my lyric essay “Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?”! Yippee! Thank you to my friends Dustin and J for allowing me to interview you for this essay. Thank you to Ragdale Foundation for providing me with a residency and fellowship where I could write the early drafts of this essay. Thank you to Ronald Spatz for accepting it!
Oh my goodness oh my goodness!!! The American Poetry Review has just accepted my full-length craft essay “On Giving Up: Its Uses and Benefits in the Writing Life.” What a dream come true! Thank you Elizabeth Scanlon and everybody at APR. Wow!!!
What a delight to learn that the awesome Bat City Review has accepted “Look! Fruit!” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Huge thanks to Poetry Editor Luci Arbus-Scandiffio and the rest of the Bat City Review crew!
Spine-tinglingly thrilled to receive the news that The Los Angeles Review has accepted my poem “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Rest of Your Life.”
Yip-a-dang! I’m delighted to share the news that The Laurel Review has accepted three of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale: “Our Dust Collection in Great Demand,” “I’ll Wait Here In Steam I Make Myself” and “We Come from the Orchard Eating.”
What a delight to learn that the mighty Broadsided Press is going to publish an anthology of their first 15 years of poetic and artist collaboration (felicitations!) AND to learn that it will contain the broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That” which they published back in 2012, illustrated by the amazing Amy Meissner. Huge thank you to Editors Elizabeth Bradfield, Miller Oberman, and Alexandra Teague!
You can read/print the original broadside for free HERE.
After a little hiatus on our poetry collaboration project, Dustin Nightingale and I started back up earlier this year and what a thrill it’s been to have had 4 of our poems accepted at 2 journals over the last week! I posted yesterday about The Rupture. Today we learned that New South has taken “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” – one of my personal favorites. Maybe someday someone will want our book manuscript?! Huge thank you to Caroline Chavatel and the crew of New South!
Delighted to learn that The Rupture has accepted three collaborative prose poems I’ve written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Mushroom Now and Then Pushing Through the Needles,” “Taking One Spoon of Earth,” and “Wispy and Withstanding Storms.” Huge thanks to Marielle Prince and the rest of the good The Rupture people!
Here’s a poem of mine they published back in 2016 when they were called The Collagist