So, this just happened...

The Cincinnati Review just arrived in the afternoon post, & I've got to say that I'm knocked over by it. Yes, yes, my [What happens is this: the body calls—though we don't] happens to be the first poem in the issue, but more importantly... gasp... a new poem by Nancy Eimers is there, & two by Carl Phillips, & & &... You probably want to pick up a copy, hm. 

So, this is about to happen...

Looking forward to being in Macomb on Thursday, November 19, 2015, where I'll be The Fred Ewing Case & Lola Austin Case Writer-in-Residence.  If you are in the area of WIU, the reading will be at the University Art Gallery at 7 o'clock. 

So, this will keep happening...

Thanks to the team of Caleb Fridell and Sofia Drummond-Moore (video), Kyle Kunkler (audio effects), and Rikki Smalley (producers) for these crazy-cool cinepoems & video-essay, a three parter they've called, "Dear City of My Heartache." (You can watch them all by following the link back to the youtube channel.) Galesburg sure does look so very much itself. 

So, this happened...

Beth & I just found out that our poem [Begin not with coastline, not with harbor or cove. Begin] was awarded a 2015 Heartland Poetry Prize, selected by Lee Ann Roripaugh, and republished in New Poetry from the Midwest. Thanks to Lee Ann Roripaugh, & to Okla Elliott & Hannah Stephenson for including the poem in this killer anthology, & also big thanks to New Orleans Review for first trusting this work. 

 

 

So, this just happened...

Spring has arrived, finally, & along with it, the new issue of Mantis, which includes four new poems of mine! Thanks to Derek Mong for hearing “[With every wall a window],” “[Because you’re still in another time zone disparate things],” “[The lesson tonight nothing less than]” & “[Not quite another season, but almost, & on the window ledges,].” I'm very lucky to be included in this amazing journal.  

 

So, this just happened...

Feeling so welcome at Houseguest, which just published "[When we turn the calendar's page, my little boy looking]," "[This afternoon the sky's making the kind of promises it can],"  "[If there's a joke more complicated than "knock-knock," more nuanced]" & "[There is no city in my city, let's be]." Drop by for a while, & then make yourselves at home. The whole issue is beautiful, as is their first.