My prose poems “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” and “New Year’s Resolution TBA” have just been published online at SCUD. You can read the poems here.
Thank you Brad Liening and SCUD!
Category Archives: Publication
The Bakery
My poems “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” have just been published by The Bakery, with audio of me reading in my backyard complete with crows cawing and dogs barking.
If you haven’t yet visited The Bakery, you’ll want to. They publish a piping hot poem every day of the week, by the likes of Matthew Cooperman, Joshua Young, Nick Sturm, Rob MacDonald, K.M.A. Sullivan & Nate Pritts, plus Monthly Specials such as October’s with Timothy Liu. The Bakery is edited by Albert Abonado. Thanks Al!
The 22 Magazine Blog
My poem “I Keep a List of What I Must” has just been published on The 22 Magazine Blog.
You can read the poem here.
This poem is from the manuscript-in-process of my untitled second book of poetry. (My first, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, hasn’t found a publisher yet, but I’m pressing on regardless.) It’s built around poems begun during my five month stint living with my girlfriend and our black cat in an apartment over Main Street in a very small Ohio village (pop. 800) last year, moving in the day before Fall Festival and out the day after Xmas.
I am very excited about the poems I’m working on for my second book, and this is the first one of them to see the light of print. Others so far are forthcoming from journals such as Salamander, The Southeast Review, and The Los Angeles Review and an anthology of literature about Southern Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios.
On the Cusp
Today the mailman brought me my copy of On the Cusp no. 5 in which I have two poems, “She Rattles Dishes” and “Grasslands.” The theme of this issue is Hunt. You can purchase a copy for five bucks by going here. On the Cusp is a collaborative zine based in Chicago with elegance and beauty — the full color art in this issue is really wonderful, especially Clare Vernon’s exquisite photograph of a doe curled in the bed of a pickup truck. I hope it was only sleeping there. Their next issue’s theme is Who. Thanks Rachel, Clare & Wesley!
Audio & Video Podcasts from Superstition Review
The wonderful folks at Superstition Review, who published four of my poems in Issue 9, have just podcasted audio of me reading the poems in my library, with the cat locked out so she wouldn’t keep meowing into the microphone, and video of me reading them in the wonderful weeds and brush behind our house and on the playground of a local elementary school. The video was shot on my girlfriend’s Android phone, so it’s lofi (a.k.a. blurry).
Thank you Superstition Review!
NANO Fiction’s State of Flash (& Prose Poetry): Why We Write ‘Em!
This summer, for NANO Fiction’s blog series The State of Flash, I surveyed some of my writer friends about why they write prose poetry or flash fiction. The responses I got were thoughtful, funny, insightful, sometimes frightening, and even lyrical.
The short essay was featured online yesterday, and you can read it HERE.
Thanks Kirby Johnson & NANO Fiction!
“Our Apple Trees” published as a Thrush Press Broadside
The broadside of my poem “Our Apple Trees” has just been published by Thrush Press. It’s available for $3.50 (S&H included).
To order a broadside, you just login to your own PayPal account, and send $3.50 to account: hvitoria@msn.com. Indicate which Broadside you are ordering with either name of poem(s) or poet(s), and the number of each desired, in the notes section on Paypal or in an email to hvitoria@msn.com.
Each broadside is handmade, stamped, and backed with art paper of different patterns. It’s a beautiful object and I’m proud to have my poem published in such a form. The poem itself is inspired by the old Amish farms in Ohio where my dad used to take me wild mushroom picking when I was a kid.
The above is a photograph of some of them which I just took in my backyard with the neighbor watching me, probably wondering why I was decorating an evergreen tree in August.
“Stop Doing That” published by Broadsided
The broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That” has just been published today by Broadsided. The poem has been wonderfully illustrated by Amy Meissner, an artist and illustrator who lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
The broadside is available as a free downloadable pdf from Broadsided HERE, where you can also read short interviews with Amy and me.
If you’re not familiar with Broadsided, since 2005 they’ve paired up writers with visual artists to create broadsides which are published online, one a month, as pdfs and which people all across the country (and beyond) download, print, and post in the streets or anywhere. The name for anyone who distributes a Broadsided piece is a Vector. All you have to do is print out a Broadsided publication and post it somewhere. Then, if you wish, you can email Broadsided to let them know where you’ve put it (and maybe take a picture of it) so they can put your town/city on the Vector map.
On a personal note, if anyone posts my Broadsided poem, my head will explode. In a good way.
Used Furniture Review
I’m excited to announce that six prose poems from my unpublished chapbook manuscript “The Little Book of Monsters” have just been published online at Used Furniture Review.
A letterpress printed broadside of another poem from this manuscript (it has a zombie in it) is available for $3.50 from Architrave Press.
Boo.
Spillway 18
I just received my contributor’s copy of Spillway Magazine 18, the Games People Play issue. It contains my poem “Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling,” alongside poems by David Kirby, Nicky Beer, Norman Dubie, Nancy Carol Moody, David St. John, and a prose poem by Pierre Reverdy translated by Dan Bellm. You can pick up a copy here. Thank you Susan Terris and Spillway!