Beth & I are "on the road" again, spring breaking in La Crosse. I can't imagine an elsewhere I'd rather be. With my dear collaborator & friend by my side, that gorgeous river finding spring, & Iowa & Minnesota bridges away, this new season seems hopeful. If you are in the area, we'd love to see you on Wednesday, March 16th at 6 o'clock in FAC Recital Hall, at Viterbo University.
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My “Remembered Is Misremembered Then Turns,” a new essay, has been included in the anthology From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women & Their Machines, edited by Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, and just out with Michigan State University Press. The books is amazing, & should be on your shelf or beside your bed. I'm thrilled to be included there.
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A very handsome Passages North, with my [The other night, we stood in front of the picture], arrived in the post the other day. I stayed up late reading the whole issue. You should, too. It will carry you through the roughest patches of winter.
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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.
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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.
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Hey, hey. Cimarron Review arrived in the afternoon post, & boy do I feel lucky. Two new poems of mine are included in this always beautiful journal. Check it out here.
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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.
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Thanks to Verse Daily for selecting [Against arranged line & proportion, in defiance of] & to Denver Quarterly for grabbing it all those months ago.
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Hey! The new issue of Midwestern Gothic just arrived & let me tell you... Well, it's great. Check it out, hm. My [Because the season snags, tangles up with itself & won't] is near the end, but is the very first (of this series of new poems I'm working on) to be published.
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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.
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Thanks to all the folks at Quiddity, where I'm proud to have three new poems. Issue 8.1 is richly textured & my poems are keeping very good company.
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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.
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We heart Boston Review. They just posted [So, the day will become a small boat] online, so if your copy got lost in the mail...
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The first ever review of No Shape Bends the River So Long, thanks to Michael Levan, was just published in American Microreviews & Interviews. In the same issue, Beth & I talk to JoAnna Novak about collaboration, our poems, the future. Check them out!
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Beth Marzoni & I have a new poem, [Against arranged line & proportion, in defiance of], in the most recent issue of Denver Quarterly. O, Denver Quarterly... I heart you so. Happy fifty more years!
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No Shape Bends the River So Long is available for purchase. You can buy it directly from our publisher here or at Barnes & Noble, here. As you can imagine, Beth & I are pretty over-the-moon.
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No better way to start the new year than with the just-arrived Boston Review. Beth Marzoni & I toasted to Timothy Donnelly & Simon Waxman, those marvelous editors who took such very good care of our [So, the day will become a small boat].
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The new issue of Hartskill Review just arrived. Looking forward to curling up with it tonight. Lots of thanks to Joshua Hjalmer Lind for hearing my very wintery poems, [What the wind kicks up, what the waters trouble, even] & [At the new year, in the dark, I watched time].
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Thrilled to be alongside Justin Hamm, Christina Olson & Chad Simpson at the roundtable, "Finding Place in the Placelessness," in the most recent issue of Quiddity. You can listen to excerpts of the interview here, & two of the outtakes, here & here.
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O, Passages North—I've always loved you so. & now a Pushcart Nomination for my essay "Still, Rivers"! & now my humble "thank you," again. All my gratitude for how generously you've cared for my prose.