It’s a sunny day here in Syracuse – yippee! – and I’ve just received my contributor copies of The Laurel Review issue 49.2, which contains my poem “Right Like Yellow Along a Banana” – a poem about sunlight, among other things. So many great voices in this issue – Bruce Bond, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Maxine Chernoff, Matthew Cooperman, Kristina Marie Darling, Shawn Fawson, Alex Lemon, Michael Robins, Kathleen Rooney, Martha Silano, Tony Trigilio – to name but a few. Thanks so much again Daniel Biegelson, John Gallaher, Luke Rolfes, and the rest of the Laurel Reviewers!
Category Archives: Publication
Featured in The Missouri Review Issue 39.4
I’ve received my contributor copies of The Missouri Review featuring 6 of my poems!!! I’m ecstatic. I’m over the moon. Thank you so much again Poetry Editor Leanna Petronella, Evelyn Somers, Traci Cox, and the rest of the Missouri Review staff. It’s an honor to share issue 39.4 with poets Sharon Dolin, Heather Derr-Smith, and the rest of the amazing writers and artists. I’m going to try to calm down now and read.
2 Collaborations Published at Gramma
Huuuge thanks to Dominic Ng, Drew Scott Swenhaugen, and all the folks at Gramma Poetry for featuring “A Fern Uncurling in Her Skull Is Not an Answer Or a Reflection” and “I Love Where I Am Right Now” — two of the prose poems I’ve been writing collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale — today at Daily Gramma!
Read the poems HERE.
“When Looking at Old Photos Only Makes It Worse” (Collaboration with Dustin Nightingale) in Jerry 11
My collaborative prose poem “When Looking at Old Photos Only Makes It Worse” — from a series written with Dustin Nightingale — has just been published in Jerry Magazine Issue 11. You can also read a statement about our collaborative process written for this issue. Who else is here? Only the likes of Adam O. Davis, Claire Marie Stancek, Emily Hunt, Robert Whitehead, Lytton Smith, Candice L. Wuehle, and Joseph Spence. Thanks again editors Emily Wolahan & Ethan J. Hon & Daniel Bevacqua!
Read our poem HERE.
Read our collaboration statement HERE.
“But I Live Here (Empty Place)” in Cider Press Review
My short poem “But I Live Here (Empty Place)” has just been published online in Cider Press Review vol. 18 issue 5. As usual, it’s a cracking great issue with poems by Sara Henning, Elizabeth Onusko Cafferkey, Hayden Saunier, John A. Nieves, Wendy Drexler, and more. Thanks so much Ruth Foley, Caron Andregg, and the rest of the CPR staff!
Read the poem HERE.
Thank You Again, Rattle
“It’s Something People in Love Do” in Sycamore Review
Happy holidays friends! I’m delighted to have just received my contributor copies of the new Sycamore Review, which includes my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” — a love poem that references the Marx Brothers (a personal milestone reached) — as well as stellar new work by Lauren Moseley, Todd Davis, L.S. Klatt, John McCarthy, Tatiana Neshumova, and others. Plus great rhinoceroses on the cover (and lots more art inside) by Ale De La Torre. Thanks so much to Anthony Sutton, Mitchell Jacobs, Rachel Reynolds, and the rest of the Sycamore Review crew!
Two Poems in Mid-American Review vol. XXXVI no. 2
Having moved this summer, the postal carrier just tracked me down to deliver my contributor copies of Mid-American Review vol. XXXVI no. 2, which contains my poems “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” and “At First It Buzzed Then Even the Buzzing Stopped” — the latter an ode of sorts to my broken garbage disposal. This gorgeous issue features literary goodness from the likes of Kristina Marie Darling, Devon Moore, Michael Meyerhofer, Michael Boccardo, and Doug Sutton-Ramspeck, to name but a few. Warm thanks to Abigail Cloud and the other editors and readers for MAR!
“The Hay Out There and the Hay in You” Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Phoebe
My poem “The Hay Out There and the Hay in You” has just been published online at Phoebe Journal as part of a sneak peak from their upcoming 46.1 fall/winter print issue. The good folks at Phoebe have also been kind enough to nominate this poem for a Pushcart Prize — my fourth nomination this year. Huge thank yous to Robbie Maakestad, Doug Luman, and the other editors and readers for Phoebe. This poem is particularly close to my heart, and it’s a delight to be able to share it with you.
Read the poem HERE.
2 Collaborations Published in Horsethief 8
Howdy friends. The new issue of Horsethief published this week contains two of my prose poem collaborations with Dustin Nightingale – “My Markings Easily Recognizable Even In a Windstorm” and “Sometimes You Walk Around and Get Decapitated” – along with poetry awesomeness by Josh Estanislao Lopez, Erin Adair Hodges, Sarah Trudgeon, and Chance Dibbene! Massive bronco-busting thank yous to Editors Justin Boening & Devon Walker-Figueroa for including our poems in your stable!
Read the issue HERE.