So, this is about to happen...

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. 

 

So, this just happened...

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. 

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.