I’m delighted to share the news that Smartish Pace just accepted my three poems “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather.” Thank you Stephen Reichert and the rest of the Smartish Pace crew!
I’m thrilled to have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a member (or members) of the Board of Contributing Editors! Thank you!!! It was such an honor to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
I’m going to Philadelphia in April to read poems from my forthcoming book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press). I’m reading Friday April 17, 2020 at 6:30 as part of the Popular Culture Association 2020 National Conference. Swing on by if you’re in the area. Plus the conference is just crazy packed with great stuff, including featured speakers Terry Gross and Kevin Willmott!
Delighted to share the news that Sou’wester has accepted my three poems “Until the World Cracks in Half,” “Last Bites Mostly Your Own Saliva,” and “Say that Again.” Thank you Poetry Editor Joshua Kryah and the rest of the Sou’wester crew!
Thrilled to share the news that my poem “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” has been accepted for publication at Zone 3 Literary Journal! Melon balls, woolly mammoths, UFOs, honey bees, tungsten light bulbs, and Julius Caesar all in 38 lines. Thank you to Andrea Spofford and all at Zone 3 Press.
Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!
You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!
Delighted to share the news that the Denver Quarterly just accepted three poems: “Ants Gather at the Puncture,” “Government Wine,” and “Itty Bitty City” — all collaborative prose poems from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.
Hot-diggety! Xmas has come a wee bit early. The Iowa Review just accepted three (!!!) of my poems: “Air Damp As the Back of the Throat,” “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up,” and “What I’m Left With.” I’m gonna sit down and try to start breathing normally again.
My friend and oft poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale types poems on demand at this year’s gala fundraiser for the Mark Twain House in Hartford Connecticut. (Photos by Sean Patrick Fowler.)
My poem “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin” has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize by the Raleigh Review, where it appeared in their Spring 2019 issue. Thanks so much Bryce Emley and the rest of the Raleigh Review crew!
You can read the poem for free online in the archive for the issue HERE.