On this cool gray rainy October day it’s a delight to share the news that my poems “Elegy for the Travel Agents” and “Beaver Lake” have been accepted at the Southern Indiana Review! Thank you SIR for this most welcome birthday news!
Collaborative Poem “In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot” Just Published in Ghost Ocean
Ahoy there friends! Ghost Ocean 19 has just been published and it includes a prose poem I wrote collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale – “In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot.” There’s also audio of us reading the poem – we sound sedated, but really we were just tired from a long day. Thanks so much Editor Heather Cox!
Read and listen to the poem HERE.
I’m Going To Be Featured in The Missouri Review!
I had to reread the email 20 times to make sure it was real…and apparently it is. I’m elated to announce that The Missouri Review has accepted six of my poems. I’ll be one of their featured poets in an upcoming issue. I’m going to try to calm down now. Here’s a picture of some wind turbines.
Collaborative Prose Poem (with Audio) Just Published at Barnstorm
“I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” — A collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale — has just been published at Barnstorm, complete with seriously awesome artwork (by Michael McConnell) and audio of me and Dustin reading the poem. Thanks a million poetry editors Stephen Brand & Katie Brunero!
Read & listen to the poem HERE.
Two Collaborative Prose Poems Published in elsewhere 11
Two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale – “Raising the Titanic” and “I Think That Guy Came With a Violin On His Back and Wants To Play a Song” – have just been published in Elsewhere. It’s a pippin of an issue with new work by Jessica Hudgins,Kathleen McGookey, Andrew Michael Roberts, JD Scott, and Claudia Serea. Thank you to the elsewhere crew: Sam Thayn, Spencer Hyde, Zach T Power, and Lindsey Keller!
Read the poems HERE.
My Poem “Otherwise Inexplicable Animation to the Forms Above” Published in The Collagist
My poem “Otherwise Inexplicable Animation to the Forms Above” has just been published in The Collagist issue 86. Thank you to Marielle Prince, Gabriel Blackwell, and the rest of The Collagist crew!
Read the poem HERE.
3 Poems Published Online at Public Pool
On this sweltering afternoon in upstate New York it would be great to take a break and have a swim. In lieu of that, here are three poems that have just been published today online in Public Pool. (Along with a photo of a train in the snow.)
Read the poems HERE.
“I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” Accepted at Barnstorm
My prose poem “I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” — written collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale — has been accepted at Barnstorm. Thank you Poetry Editors Stephen Brand & Katie Brunero!
My Poem “The Mutual Building” Posted Today at Rattle (with Audio)
Dear Friends. Happy Labor Day! My poem “The Mutual Building” – first published in Rattle Issue 52 – has been posted online today for your literary delectation. It includes audio of me reading the poem here in Syracuse last year at The Downtown Writer’s Center. A winter poem at the end of summer.
Read the poem HERE.
I’m Reading at Kent State University on October 5
Friends! I’m thoroughly jazzed to announce that I’ve been invited to read at Kent State University on October 5.
This event is a reading and discussion of the flash fiction/prose poem/flash nonfiction linked sequence. I’ll be reading/discussing along with Nin Andrews, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Kathleen McGookey, Lucas Southworth and Molly Fuller, some of my fellow contributors to Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pines Press, 2016). It’s open to the public and should be a gas. If you’re in the area, swing on by!
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Reading by and discussion from contributors to Nothing to Declare: Flash Fiction Sequences:
Nin Andrews, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Kathleen McGookey, Lucas Southworth, Molly Fuller, and Christopher Citro
Nothing to Declare: Flash Fiction Sequences (White Pine Press/Marie Alexander Series, 2016) is the first anthology of this emerging hybrid form. Part prose poetry, micro fiction, or flash fiction, and often a collage of more than one, the flash fiction sequences laces together various stand alone pieces of writing into related larger works.
Reading and discussion will take place at Kent State University; room to be announced.
Co-sponsored by the NEOMFA and the Wick Poetry Center.