What a thrill to hold my contributor copy of the new cream city review, which contains my poems “Sneaking Back Inside” and “We Live on a Foreign Planet this One,” alongside luminous new work by such bright lights as Adam Day, Virginia Konchan, Lisa Low, Saara Myrene Raappana, Karen Weyant, John Sibley Williams, and Brenna Womer. Thanks so much Alessandra Rolffs, Ae Hee Lee, Caleb Nelson, and the rest of the CCR staff!
Thrilled to have received the news that my poems “Dear Diary Where Is Everybody,” “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin,” and “Light at the Beach a Thousand Doctors” have been accepted at Raleigh Review!
On this rainy October morning, I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of The Massachusetts Review, which contains my poem “Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in addition to work from such wonderfuls as Chen Chen, Leah Poole Osowski, Emma Bolden, Dennis Finnell, Christopher Kondrich, Michael Hurley, to name but a few. Thank you so much to Ellen Doré Watson, Deborah Gorlin, Emily Wojcik, and the rest of the MR crew!
Fantastic to read poetry this afternoon at Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival along with the wonderful Sara Moore Wagner and Susan Wojnar!
Delighted to be heading out to read my poetry and moderate a publishing panel for Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival at Youngstown State University. There are tons of readings, panels, a book fair – so much literary goodness. I’ll be reading poems from my unpublished second book manuscript Friday Sept 21 at 2 pm, along with fellow readers Sara Moore Wagner and Susan Wojnar, then moderating an Editor’s Publishing Panel that features Dianne Borsenik, Rochelle Hurt, Larry Smith, Vertigo Xi’an Xavier, Jessica Fischoff, and John Gosslee. And that’s just one fragment of all that’s happening over the festival’s two days. If you’re in the neighborhood, come on by!
Lovely to learn that my second poetry book manuscript was a semifinalist for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from The University of Utah Press. Congratulations to the winner Lindsay Lusby!
Holy. Moly. I’ve been awarded a residency at Ragdale for next spring, fully funded with a fellowship!!! I’d never applied to do any residency before being invited to apply to this one, and wow I never expected all this. Thank you Jeffrey Meeuwsen, Amy Sinclair, Regin Igloria, and the Curational Board, selection committee, & staff at Ragdale Foundation for this amazing opportunity. I’m honored and elated. Having this to look forward to will certainly help keep things glowing when winter winds come a-blowing.
My poetry book has been out for over 3 years by this point but somehow seeing that there’s a copy in the library system of the university where I went as an undergraduate, seeing the book beneath the image of that library where I spent so many blissful hundreds of hours face pressed into books or writing endless poems in carrels on the upper floors… It brings me over all sentimental.
What a thrill to hold in my hands my contributor copy of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing just out from Black Lawrence Press. The names on the table of contents make my head spin. Dustin Nightingale and I are absolutely looped to have three of our collaborative prose poems appear in this anthology: “Staring Out a Window Echoing the Actual Moon” and “And Me With Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” first published in DIAGRAM, and “I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” first published in Two Peach. Thank you to the editors who initially published these and to Simone Muench, Dean Rader, Sally Ashton, and Jackie White for including us in this amazing volume.
(Click the poem titles above to read the poems as originally published!)
Lovely to return from vacation to the news that my second poetry book manuscript was a finalist for Sarabande Books’ Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry judged by Ocean Vuong. Congratulations to the winner Chad Bennett. Also, congratulations to my fellow finalist and fellow Indiana University MFA Nathaniel Perry!