Yippee! The Cincinnati Review just accepted “Yonder” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. It’ll be published soon in their online miCRo series. Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe and all at CR!
Wow! I just received a second Best of the Net 2024 nomination, this time for my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” published online by Fugue. Thank you again to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue Literary Journal! Here’s the link to read the poem:
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro
I happened to be working on an ekphrastic poem about Virgil Marti’s 1992 “Bullies Wallpaper” when the email came. Usually if I get an email while I’m writing a poem it’s a rejection from some literary magazine. This was a lovely surprise!
What a lovely surprise! Blackbird has nominated my long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” for Best of the Net! Thank you to Matt Schroeder and everyone at Blackbird!
You can read the whole poem here:
While I was on Martha’s Vineyard teaching this week, WPBS television in Central New York featured me reading my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award.” And the video is up on YouTube. Thank you WPBS! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
Friends! That sound you probably just heard was me yelling with delight at the news that The Kenyon Review has just accepted my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” Thank you thank you to Nicole Terez Dutton and everyone at KR! Oh…I’m about to start emoting again!
My poem “Red Birds the Size of Fists” has just been published online in the new issue of Zone 3! HUGE thank yous to Stephanie Dugger, Calie Benke, and everyone at Zone 3! This is my third appearance in this awesome journal.
https://zone3press.com/poetry-entries/red-birds-the-size-of-fists/
I’m thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Mid-American Review, with my poem “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground,” along with a host of awesome fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Huge thanks to Megan Borocki, Abigail Cloud, and everyone at MAR! A wild turkey was gobbling at me from the woods while I took these photos. I think it could sense my excitement. 😀
What a delightful surprise! Thank you to the folks at PoetryTaughtPoorly for making this lovely little video of my poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” from my second book.
My long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” has just been published online in the new issue of Blackbird. I haven’t written longer poems in a long time, and this is one of the 3 that I wrote last year in a kind of new experiment. I’m delighted beyond measure that it found a home in Blackbird! Thank you again to everyone at Blackbird!!!
You can read the whole poem here:
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/birds-stars-suite/
What a joy to hold in my hands my contributor copy of Moon City Review 2024, which has my poem, “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish” a poem written on Martha’s Vineyard, sitting alone on the shore late one night. Thank you to Mike Czyzniejewki and everyone at MCR! The contributor list of this issue is FIRE! Get yourself a copy!
