Yippee! Dustin and I got our contributor copies of awesome The Laurel Review with our 3 collaborative prose poems, among a host of awesome new work by writers and friends! Thank you John Gallaher, Luke Rolfes, and the whole Laurel Review crew!
Hot dang! My contributor copy of the new Broadsided Press 2005-2020 Anthology just landed here in Syracuse and it’s a real beauty! This hefty art book contains my poem “Stop Doing That,” collaboratively illustrated by the awesome Amy Meissner, plus so much great writing and art by the likes of Camille Dungy, Danez Smith, Catherine Pierce, Robert Wrigley, Jane Hirshfield, Philip Metres…that’s just the beginning of the Table of Contents! Thank you Elizabeth Bradfield, Alexandra Teague, Miller Oberman!
Order your copy here: https://provincetown-arts-press.myshopify.com/products/broadsided-press-fifteen-years-of-poetic-and-artistic-collaboration-2005-2020
Thrilled to receive my contributor copies of the new Bat City Review, which contains “Look! Fruit!” one of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale. There’s so much literary awesomeness in this gorgeous issue! Massive thank yous to Luci Arbus-Scandiffio, Sarah Matthes, and the whole BCR crew!
I just received the exciting news that the next print issue of Rain Taxi will contain their interview with me about my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! What a thrill! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!
Thankfully today’s arctic windstorm hasn’t blown away the mailbox, and I received my contributor’s copy of the new Barrow Street, which contains my poem “The Effect Lasting Half a Minute,” as well as a ton of awesome poems by an amazing list of poets and friends! Huge thank yous to Michael Broek and the other Barrow Street editors and readers!
My poem “Shelter Awhile” is featured today on Verse Daily! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award, published by Elixir Press. Thank you J.P. Dancing Bear!
You can read the poem HERE.
You can buy an signed copy of the book from me HERE.
You can also get it at Amazon, Small Press Distribution and elsewhere.
Folks! My poem “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Rest of Your Life” has just been published online at The Los Angeles Review!!! Huge thanks to Blas Falconer and Vandana Khanna!!!
Read the poem HERE!
I’m teaching a Zoom class on how to submit your creative writing to literary journals (basically the basics), hosted by the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard this Thursday 4:30 – 6pm. This is free and open to the public! You can get the zoom link and further info on the library’s events calendar: https://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/how-to-submit-to-literary-journals-webinar/
My lyric essay “Licked By Our World We Get Licked By Our World” just got published in the new online issue of Bellingham Review! I’m so excited to share this with you all. This is the final essay in my Four Classical Elements series. It’s the water essay, and includes 4000 words on the times I almost drowned, life in the deepest oceans, collecting water from famous places, fish I have known, a diary entry from when I was 15, Altered States, Jaws, Howie Mandel, Close Encounters of the Third Kind…just to name a few. A thousand thanks to all the great folks at Bellingham Review, including B. Woods, Suzanne Paola, and Caity Scott!
Read it HERE!
Three collaborative prose poems that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale just got published in the new issue of The Rupture (formerly The Collagist). Thank you so much to Gabriel Blackwell, Marielle Prince, and the rest of the good folk at The Rupture!