Read my poem HERE.
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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.
“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” Runner-Up for the Brittany Noakes Poetry Award
I’m honored and delighted to share the news that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” was selected as Runner-Up for the Brittany Noakes Poetry Award whose entree fees benefit the Live Your Dream Award, sponsored by SI of Rittenhouse Square, PA, for a single mother who has experienced hardships, to help her pursue her education. Click HERE to read (and hear me read) my poem (first published in Rattle Issue 50) along with super-kind words by Shevaun Brannigan and contest judge J.C. Todd. Thanks so much to you both!
“The Mutual Building” in Rattle 52
I’m jazzed and delighted to have just received my contributor copy of Rattle issue 52, which contains my poem “The Mutual Building,” inspired by the MONY building in Syracuse, sitting in a newly opened Tim Hortons downtown, and the arrival of a particularly absurd blizzard. This issue features a tribute to poetry by Angelenos, and there are young and shiny poems by such as Tiana Clark, Jenn Givhan, Robert Nazarene, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Ruth Madievsky, Charles Harper Webb, Cecilia Woloch, and many more. Thank you Editor Timothy Green!
“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” (w/ Audio) at Rattle.com
Hi friends. My poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” — a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and published in issue 50 — has been posted today at Rattle.com for all to read. Go HERE to read the poem in full.
You can also listen to me perform the poem at a live reading I gave at The Downtown Writer’s Center here in Syracuse last October.
Thanks again Timothy Green and the rest of the Rattle crew!
“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” on KUSP’s The Poetry Show
Hi friends. My poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” — a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize — was recently featured on KUSP’s The Poetry Show in Santa Cruz, CA. Host Dennis Morton reads a selection of work from Rattle Issue 50, including a delightful rendition of my poem around minute 24. The last half of the show features samplings from a CD of contemporary Scottish poetry. You can stream or download the episode HERE.
My Poem Among Story Magazine’s Most Powerful Stories of 2015
I’m honored to find that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” – a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and recently published in Issue 50 – was included in this list of the Most Powerful Stories of 2015 by the editors of Story Magazine. It’s so cool to see my poem among this eclectic gathering of 2015’s essays, novels, news stories, film, music and more, rubbing metaphorical shoulders (after the top 10) with Marc Maron’s WTF interview with President Obama and the final season of Mad Men. Thanks Story Magazine!
“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” in Rattle
Today I received my contributor copy of the winter issue of Rattle containing my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which was a finalist for this year’s Rattle Poetry Prize. An amazing issue with tons of great poetry. Thanks so much again Timothy Green and the other Rattle readers and editors!
Finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize
I’m thrilled to announce that my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” was selected as a finalist for this year’s Rattle Poetry Prize. Another poem of mine was also chosen for publication in a later issue..
Thanks Timothy Green and the other Rattle editors!
