Wednesday evening I had the honor and delight to receive a 2018 Residence Hall Association Professor Recognition Award for being an outstanding educator at SUNY Oswego. Thank you to Richard Kolenda, Jacob Gardner, and most of all to my students!
Category Archives: Award
Finalist for the Wolverine Farm Poetry Broadside Prize
It’s gratifying to learn that my poem, “It’s Something People in Love Do,” has been named a finalist for the 2018 Wolverine Farm Poetry Broadside Prize. Congratulations to the winner, Derek Mong, and to the other finalists!
This poem of mine appears in this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology and you can read it here.
My 2nd Book Manuscript a Finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize!
I’m honored and delighted that the manuscript of my second book of poems — the newest version, just a few months old — has been named a finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize from The University of Georgia Press. Huge congratulations to the winner Rosa Lane, to the runner-up Samuel Amadon, and to the other finalists.
“It’s Something People in Love Do” in the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2018
Thank you to Bill Henderson and the other editors of The Pushcart Prize Anthology for including my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” in the newly published 2018 edition! Having received my contributor’s copy not long ago, I’m still reeling from the honor. Thank you to all the journal editors who have nominated my work over the years, and most especially to Lee Upton and Tony Ardizzone for nominating my work this year. Thanks again to Anthony Sutton, Mitchell Jacobs, Rachel Reynolds, and the other editors at Sycamore Review for giving this poem a home in the first place!
Semi-Finalist for University of Wisconsin Press’ Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes
Thank you Ron Wallace and the rest of the readers and judges for designating my second poetry book manuscript a “strong semi-finalist” for the University of Wisconsin Press’ Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes. Congratulations to the eventual winners and finalists!
Best of the Net Nomination for my essay in Passages North
Huge thanks to Willow Grosz and the rest of the good folks at Passages North for nominating my lyric essay Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough for the Best of the Net Anthology!
My 2nd Book Manuscript Named a Semi-Finalist for the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry
Happy to learn that the manuscript of my second book of poetry was a semi-finalist for the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry! Congratulations to the winner Sarah Barber for her manuscript Country House!
I’ve Won a Pushcart Prize!
My poem “It’s Something People in Love Do,” published last year in Sycamore Review has just WON a Pushcart Prize 2017. I’m delighted, elated. Back in 2005 I received my first Pushcart nomination, from Redactions. That and each nomination since then has felt like such an honor. To have actually won a place in the anthology this year is, well, wow. Thank you to the individuals, editors, and journals who have generously supported my work over the years. Thank you to Bill Henderson and the rest of the Pushcart folks for choosing this poem for the 2017 Pushcart Prize Anthology. And thank you again to Anthony Sutton, Mitchell Jacobs, Rachel Reynolds, and the other good people at Sycamore Review for giving my poem a home in the first place!
Thank You Again, Rattle
“The Hay Out There and the Hay in You” Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Phoebe
My poem “The Hay Out There and the Hay in You” has just been published online at Phoebe Journal as part of a sneak peak from their upcoming 46.1 fall/winter print issue. The good folks at Phoebe have also been kind enough to nominate this poem for a Pushcart Prize — my fourth nomination this year. Huge thank yous to Robbie Maakestad, Doug Luman, and the other editors and readers for Phoebe. This poem is particularly close to my heart, and it’s a delight to be able to share it with you.
Read the poem HERE.