The good folk over at The California Journal of Poetics have given me a Blurby Award for a blurb of mine which appeared on the back of Jim Daniels’ Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry. Specifically, I won BEST ORIGAMI METAPHOR.
Some other examples of Blurby Awards go for BEST HOMERIC SIMILE, BEST ALICE IN WONDERLAND METAPHOR, BEST REFERENCE TO KAFKA, and Amy Gerstler’s MOST ZEN IN SPITE OF IMPENDING OBLITERATION. You can read the whole award list here.
Thank you CalJoPo!
My poems “Single Male Seeks Someone Who’ll Stay” and “Sword Swallowers in Transition” will be published in the estimable minnesota review. These are two poems I’ve held particularly close to my heart. Suffice it to say I am overjoyed. Thank you the minnesota review!
I recently received my contributor copy of NANO Fiction Vol 5 No 1, and it’s a beauty, complete with the sexiest honey bees you’ve ever seen. This journal contains a ton of amazing flash fiction and prose poetry, all within a sleek, aesthetically pleasing trim volume. This journal really is a pleasure to read, not least because of its size, layout, font, and general look. If you’re interested, you can buy a copy here — but do not delay as their issues invariably sell out.
I’m happy to say I learned recently that The Nervous Breakdown will publish my poem “Done Playing Hard To Get.” Here are two poems they published previously, one by Patrick Rosal and one by Matthew Zapruder…C3PO and Neil Young — what more could you ask for?
I recently received the happy news that Spillway will be publishing my poem “Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling” in their June 2012 issue which will have as its theme “Games People Play.” If you’d like to read some poems from this journal available online, check out CB Follett’s “The Green Pinecone” reprinted in Poetry Daily, and Anna Journey’s “Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood” reprinted in Verse Daily.
The wonderful folks at Superstition Review have accepted four of my poems for their upcoming issue! This amazing online journal from Arizona State University has been publishing two issues a year since 2007, and there’s an abundance of great poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and art on their site. Just a small sampling of the poetry includes the likes of Denise Duhamel, Dara Wier, Jim Daniels, Bob Hicok, Billy Collins, Alberto Rios, Floyd Skloot, Richard Jackson, Norman Dubie, Michael S. Harper, Sherman Alexie, & Dorianne Laux.
Fourteen Hills Volume 18.1 has recently been published, and, along with an amazing selection of poetry, fiction, and art, it contains my poem “These Summer Nights in December.” Should you wish, you can purchase a copy from SPD here.
The first issue of Arts & Letters PRIME was released this last November containing both the text and audio of me reading my two poems “Free Verse” and “You Can Always Buy a New Dress.” PRIME is a newly launched e-supplement to the print edition of this wonderful journal, specially made for the iPad/iPhone. If you have one of those, you can download the issue 1.1 here. If you don’t, never fear, that link also takes you to a place where you can download a basic version to be read on an e-pub reader.
In addition to my two poems, this issue features flash essays, including one by Dinty Moore, visual art, audio and video.
The new issue of Red Lightbulbs contains my three poems “Forgivable Oversights in the Space Age,” “Thankfully I Can’t Make a Fist of My Feet,” and “There’s Always Time for a Little Slap and Tickle.” Happy 2012!
The December Issue of Toad contains two of my poems, “Ten More Minutes, Please” and “What? What Is It You’re Trying To Tell Me?”
Also, the December Issue of >kill author contains three of my poems, “A Theme Song That Never Gets Old,” “Get Your Climbing Boots On, Betty” and “Keep It Up and You’ll Freeze Like That.” Each includes streaming audio. For your reading and listening pleasure.
Thank you to the editors at Toad and >kill author!