On this Monday of sunlight glinting across the snowfall from this weekend,, I’m thrilled to be reviewing proofs of my two poems “Air Damp as the Back of the Throat” and “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up” which will soon appear in The Iowa Review!!!
I’m delighted to share the news that my poem “The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” has just been accepted by North American Review. Thank you J D Schraffenberger and the rest of the NAR crew! This poem mentions the amazing sculpture from 1993 “House” by the amazing artist Rachel Whiteread. She filled a three story house with concrete then removed the house part.
This autumn I created videos for the collaborative prose poems written by me and Dustin Nightingale which Bear Review published. I just posted the 3rd and final of these to my YouTube page. I hope you enjoy them!
My poem “Like a River Stood on End,” first published in Cherry Tree, has just been republished online at The Talbot Spy. And there’s a short video of me reading the poem. Thank you, James Dissette!
Read/watch the poem HERE!
The video of yesterday’s “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion” event is now available. Dustin Nightingale and I read some of our collaborative prose poems (for the first time ever live!), along with awesome readings by Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. Plus there’s an inspiring Q & A. Yay collaborative writing! 😀😀
A poem and a short interview with me have just been published online as part of Fairy Tale Review‘s Pins & Needles Q&A series. Poetry Editor Jon Riccio asked some really fun questions about my two poems published in FTR‘s Ochre Issue, and in the space of a few hundred words I managed to cram in Robyn Hitchcock, Mary Ruefle, Craig Raine, Anthony Burgess, Dostoyevsky, James Taylor, Pringles, T.S. Eliot, Ross Gay, P.G. Wodehouse, and Alpha Centauri. Plus the full text of one of the poems, “We’re Actually Fabulous” is included at the end of the interview. Thanks again Jon!
Read HERE.
Hi friends. My poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” — a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize — was recently featured on KUSP’s The Poetry Show in Santa Cruz, CA. Host Dennis Morton reads a selection of work from Rattle Issue 50, including a delightful rendition of my poem around minute 24. The last half of the show features samplings from a CD of contemporary Scottish poetry. You can stream or download the episode HERE.
I’m honored to find that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” – a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and recently published in Issue 50 – was included in this list of the Most Powerful Stories of 2015 by the editors of Story Magazine. It’s so cool to see my poem among this eclectic gathering of 2015’s essays, novels, news stories, film, music and more, rubbing metaphorical shoulders (after the top 10) with Marc Maron’s WTF interview with President Obama and the final season of Mad Men. Thanks Story Magazine!
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!
“She’s cramped and tired and worried that she’ll forget the special song she’s supposed to sing.”
Here is “Birthday Cake” – a prose poem by Maura Stanton in the online literary magazine Matchbook from way back in November 2009.