Category Archives: Book

Dedicated to the students of the Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul, Türkiye…

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A few weeks ago I received an email out of the blue from the Head Librarian at the Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul, Türkiye, letting me know that 12th graders there were reading and excited about my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which has a line in it about people who bicycled across Turkey in the late 1800s. They are going to translate my poem into Turkish for their school magazine alongside an interview with me. I am sending them this signed copy of my second book for their library. My little dedication doesn’t come close to expressing the deep deep joy this connection across the seas has brought to my heart.

My 2025 Publishing Year in Review!

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With new year’s fast approaching, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the writing I’ve had accepted or published in 2025. It’s been a fortunate year for me, and I thank every one of the wonderful editors who made these publications possible! And thank you to the awesome poetry collaborators I’ve been lucky enough to write with!

Invisible Strings is up for a Grammy!

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Hot golly! I’m in this anthology and the audiobook of Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift is in consideration for next year’s Grammy Awards. Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty for making this project so awesome and such a success!

My new chapbook has been released: I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST

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Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It’s free or you can pay whatever you want for it! Get your copy today! Read it while riding the rails, taking breaks from making love, setting out lemon cakes for your backyard tea party with neighborhood cats, sitting on a bus…Whatever! We hope you enjoy these poems. And huge ever-shimmering thanks to Kevin Bertolero and Ghost City Press.

Get yer copy here: https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/i-wear-a-top-hat-when-i-go-into-the-forest

“The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering” release reading!

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Last week the collaborative poetry chapbook “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro, had its release reading at the University of Toledo, hosted by Timothy Geiger and his Aureole Press, who created this letterpress printed work of art. I couldn’t be there in body but I was there in spirit. I’m excited to share this chapbook when it becomes available for purchase!

Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest!

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Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!

Chapbook accepted at Aureole Press!

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I’m delighted to share the news that a chapbook of collaborative poetry that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, titled The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering, has been accepted for publication at University of Toledo’s Aureole Press!

I have a poem in the upcoming anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift!

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I’m delighted to share the news that I have a poem coming out in the anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swiftpublished by Ballantine Books, released December 3, and available for preorder today! This was such a fun project and I’m thrilled to have my work alongside so many poets I adore, such as Kim Addonizio, CA Conrad, Cornelius Eady, Jo Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diane Seuss…to name but a few!

My poems are being translated!

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My friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!