I’m delighted to share that the always wonderful Verse Daily has featured my poem today: “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” Thank you to J.P. Dancing Bear and to the Colorado Review for first giving the poem a home. https://www.versedaily.org/2023/peeltheblackwalnutbarklike.shtml
Thrilled to receive my copy of the new Colorado Review with my poems “Night But Unlike Night” and “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” These poems mean a lot to me, and I think of them as a pair. I could not be more delighted that they found their home in CR, a journal close to my heart and which has been kind enough to publish a lyric essay of mine and two other poems before. Thank you Matthew Cooperman, Lauren Furman, Cecil Janecek, Stephanie G’Schwind, and everyone with a hand in making the always awesome Colorado Review!
On my birthday yesterday, one of my very favorite journals, Colorado Review, accepted my two poems: “Night but Unlike Night” & “Peel the Black Walnut Bark like Small Fists in our Fists.” What a treat! CR has published two of my poems before, as well as a creative nonfiction essay, and it’s a journal I hold close to my heart. Thank you Matthew Cooperman and everyone at CR! These two poems are particular favorites of mine, and at the center of the developing manuscript of my third poetry book. I’m overjoyed they will appear in Colorado Review!
It was awesome to be asked to read my creative nonfiction for yesterday’s episode of The Campbell Conversations on WRVO, celebrating the work of writers associated with The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse. Sitting at home in a bedroom closet last week — with my phone balanced on my knee — I read the first 6 minutes of my lyric essay, “Go Away and Stay Right Here,” originally published in the Colorado Review. My reading leads off the episode which also features luminous performances by Jessica Cuello, Georgia Popoff, and Arthur Flowers.
Give a listen HERE!
I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copies of the summer Colorado Review, which contains my poems “Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands” and “Shelter Awhile.” This is the second time I’ve been in the Colorado Review, since they were good enough to publish my lyric essay “Go Away and Stay Right Here” back in the Spring 2014 Issue. Such a delight to share the pages of this issue with amazings such as Ruth Baumann, Conor Bracken, Sophie Klahr, Cate Lycurgus, Lisa Olstein, Brian Simoneau, Kevin Wilson, to name only a few. Massive thanks to Katherine Indermaur, Matthew Cooperman, Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, and Stephanie G’Schwind!
Huuuuuuge thanks to the good folks at the Colorado Review for accepting my poems “Shelter Awhile” and “Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands” — the latter being one of the very few sonnets I’ve ever had survive into a final draft. So huzzah! This will be the second time my work has appeared in the Colorado Review, since they were good enough to publish my first lyric essay “Go Ahead and Stay Right Here” back in the Spring 2014 issue. So double thanks and huzzahs!
A personal essay I wrote this spring just got accepted by the Colorado Review today for their spring 2014 issue. Four hours after I got that acceptance, and agreed to it, (before I even had time to withdraw it from other journals) I got an email from another amazing journal also accepting it. Two acceptances for the same piece in the same day. That is a new one for me, and I’m still floored.
This is my first full essay acceptance, and that it was from the Colorado Review is a dream come true.