I’m thrilled to announce that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” was selected as a finalist for this year’s Rattle Poetry Prize. Another poem of mine was also chosen for publication in a later issue..
Thanks Timothy Green and the other Rattle editors!
I’m delighted to announce that my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award” has been accepted for publication in Crab Creek Review.
It was chosen as one of the semifinalists for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Congrats to the winner, Laura Read, and the other poems that placed.
Thank you Martha Silano and the other Crab Creek Review editors!
My poetry was a finalist for this year’s Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry.
Thanks Arts & Letters editors and congrats to the winners and other finalists!
Today I received my contributor’s copy of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art issue 53 which includes my poem, “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like.”
This poem was selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly as the winner of the 2015 Poetry Competition. Thanks so much again to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!
My Poem “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart” has made the shortlist for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize!
Thanks Robert Stapleton and the other Booth editors!
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!
I just received the wonderful news that my poem “Whatchamacallit” — which was published in Prairie Gold Anthology: An Anthology of the American Heartland from Ice Cube Press — has just been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
I’m so proud to be a part of this amazing anthology of writing from and about the Midwest. If you haven’t read the anthology, you can learn more about it and order a copy directly from the press HERE.
Thank so much Steve Semken and editors Lance M. Sacknoff, Xavier Cavazos and Stefanie Brook Trout!
My poem “Sword Swallowers in Transition,” which was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the minnesota review, has just been posted on their blog.
You can read the poem in its entirety HERE.
Thanks minnesota review!
The good folks at the minnesota review have just nominated my poem “Sword Swallowers in Transition” for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. It appeared earlier this year in issue 80.
Thank you editors of the minnesota review!
The good folk over at The California Journal of Poetics have given me a Blurby Award for a blurb of mine which appeared on the back of Jim Daniels’ Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry. Specifically, I won BEST ORIGAMI METAPHOR.
Some other examples of Blurby Awards go for BEST HOMERIC SIMILE, BEST ALICE IN WONDERLAND METAPHOR, BEST REFERENCE TO KAFKA, and Amy Gerstler’s MOST ZEN IN SPITE OF IMPENDING OBLITERATION. You can read the whole award list here.
Thank you CalJoPo!