Hot golly! Advance copies of my nephew Brian’s new jazz album, Keep Moving (Home), on Chicago’s Calligram Records, have arrived. He asked me to write a poem to be the liner notes, and it’s there in the CD and as a pullout insert for the vinyl album! The album’s not up on the label’s website yet, but it’ll be available as digital, CD, and vinyl when it’s released this May.
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!
Jumpin’ jubilation! I just got my contributor copy of the new Cream City Review, with the collaborative prose poem “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” which Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Thank you to everyone at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
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
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!
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!
Hot golly! What a pleasure to be signing the colophon pages for our new collaborative 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! Thank you Timothy Geiger and Aureole Press for letterpress printing this beautiful object!
Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
Yippee! Heavy Feather Review just published “Placatory Congregation,” a collaborative prose poem that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Huge thanks to Editors Bill Lessard, Jason Teal, and everyone who makes HFR so awesome!
Read the poem here:
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/05/placatory-congregation/
Wow! The Laurel Review has accepted 3 of the collaborative poems that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I have written together: “We End and the World Begins, Where?” “A Change of Occupation” and “Three Deaths near a Body of Water.” Xmas came early this year! HUGE thank you to Editor John Gallaher!