Hot golly! Bellingham Review just accepted my poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” Huge thank you to Sam X Wong and everyone at BR! It’s, um, another poem of mine set in a grocery store. So thank you also to Wegmans. đź¤
This will be my second appearance in the awesome Bellingham Review. They were kind enough to publish my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” in 2021.
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 3 (skipping December 24 and 31). We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!
Participants will receive:
6 two-hour live Zoom classes
weekly pdf packets of sample poems from recent literary journals and books, focusing on craft elements and themes
original writing prompts written by me inspired by each week’s sample poems
workshop comments from the class and me on your five original poems
This is a live online writing workshop. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the beginning of classes. Registration will close when full (12 students). The class requires a minimum of 6 registered participants. Register early, as spots fill quickly.
Hot golly! My contributor copies of the new Water~Stone Review arrived with my poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles” and thank you again to Jose Hernandez Diaz, Kayla Knoll, and Meghan Maloney-Vinz. This happy arrival in the mail helps take some of the sting out of having to go on…somehow…now that Halloween is over for another year….
What a joy to spend this morning Zoom-visiting John Howard’s Studies in Nonfiction class, where they have been reading and responding to my lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” published in the Southeast Review. Thank you to John and his students for their insights and generosity!
The Southeast Review has made the entire essay available to read online:
Jumpin’ jubilation! I just got my contributor copy of the new Cream City Review, with the collaborative prose poem “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” which Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Thank you to everyone at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
Showing off to some friends in my backyard my contributor’s copy of North American Review with my sunburn at the beach poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” Such an honor to appear in these pages for my 3rd time! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger & everyone who helps make NAR so awesome!
Poetose just published my short poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” in their online journal, alongside a handwritten version of the poem. Huge thanks to Poetose! Head on over to see the poem in both versions…and the awesome other pieces they’ve published!
Huge thank you!! to the online journal Poetose for accepting my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty.” I’ve been invited to handwrite the poem to be published next to a printed-text version, so I cranked up my fountain pen and fancy ink to have a go!
I rarely submit to writing contests, so it’s especially lovely news to learn that my poems were a finalist for Puerto del Sol‘s 2025 annual poetry contest. Huge thank you to everyone involved…and congratulations to the winner!
Hot golly! I’m in this anthology and the audiobook of Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift is in consideration for next year’s Grammy Awards. Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty for making this project so awesome and such a success!
