There’s a new book of prose poems in the world by the wonderful Molly Fuller. It’s called For Girls Forged by Lightning and I had the joy of blurbing it. Get yourself a copy from All Nations Books. And congratulations again Molly!
Semi-Finalist for University of Wisconsin Press’ Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes
Thank you Ron Wallace and the rest of the readers and judges for designating my second poetry book manuscript a “strong semi-finalist” for the University of Wisconsin Press’ Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes. Congratulations to the eventual winners and finalists!
Audio Interview Posted @ The Missouri Review!
An interview I did this summer with The Missouri Review audio editor Traci Cox – about poetry, my writing process, and my poems featured in the Winter 2016 issue of the Missouri Review – has just been posted on TMR Soundbooth Podcast. Thanks so much again for this wonderful conversation, Traci!
You can listen HERE.
2 Poems Published in The Carolina Quarterly!
I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copies of The Carolina Quarterly, which contains my poems “Sunsets Like Strobe Lights” and “That’s Why They Invented Cheesecake.” It’s such a pleasure to share this issue with Devon Balwit, Grant Kittrell, Dan Kraines, Jenna Le, Matt Miller, Annie Woodford, and many more wonderfuls. Thank you again Calvin Olsen and the rest of the Carolina Quarterly crew!
3 Poems Accepted at Alaska Quarterly Review!
Last night I received the delightful news that three of my poems — “In Small Significant Ways We Are Horses,” “To Keep At Least Partially In the Air,” and “We Are Many People Some Okay” — have been accepted for publication in Alaska Quarterly Review! I celebrated by baking a potato at 1:30 am and watching The Man with the Golden Gun. Made sense at the time
2 Poems Just Published in the Southwest Review!
It’s chilly here in Syracuse, but I’m enjoying the warm glow of having received my contributor copies of the sunny Southwest Review, Volume 102, Number 2, which includes my poems “Shadows of Blackbirds on Our Arms” and “Let’s Arm Ourselves with Supple Skin.” This issue features luminous new work by Elijah Burrell, Jac Jemc, Jacqueline Osherow, Lee Rossi, Lewis Shiner, Jonathan Weinert and others. Thank you again to editors Terri Lewers, Preston Hutcherson, and Greg Brownderville!
“Every Other Week a New Planet” in Jellyfish Magazine
Friends! Happy day! One of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale has just been published in the new issue of Jellyfish Magazine. It’s called “Every Other Week a New Planet” and it gets to share this beautiful issue with the likes of RE K Bye, Ruth Baumann, Joey De Jesus, Wren Hanks, Hajara Quinn, Zachary Evans, Jayme Russell, and Sara Biggs Chaney! Thanks so much to editors Gale Marie Thompson, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Philip Muller, Kamden Ishmael Hilliard, and Caroline Cabrera!
Read our poem HERE!
“The Low Crumble of Distant Applause” in The Laurel Review
What a thrill to receive my contributor copy of The Laurel Review issue 50.1 which contains my poem “The Low Crumble of Distant Applause.” What an additional thrill to see that contributor list — Jeff Alessandrelli, Mary Biddinger, Bruce Bond, Emily Borgmann, Kristina Marie Darling, Mark Halliday, Al Maginnes, Gary McDowell, Kyle McCord, Martin Ott, Carrie Shipers, Marcus Wicker — to name but a few! Thanks a million to Daniel Biegelson, John Gallaher, Luke Rolfes, and the rest of The Laurel Review crew!
Best of the Net Nomination for my essay in Passages North
Huge thanks to Willow Grosz and the rest of the good folks at Passages North for nominating my lyric essay Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough for the Best of the Net Anthology!
“Sunsets Like Strobe Lights” & “That’s Why They Invented Cheesecake” Accepted at Carolina Quarterly
I’m delighted to share the news that my poems “Sunsets Like Strobe Lights” and “That’s Why They Invented Cheesecake” have just been accepted at The Carolina Quarterly!