Galesburg, Illinois
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!
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!
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.
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].
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].
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.
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.
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.
Beth Marzoni & I are reading in St. Paul on Friday, November 7th at 7 o'clock for Water~Stone Review's 17th Annual Reading & Reception. If you are in the area, we'll be at Sundin Hall on the lovely Hamline University campus.
Beth & I have two new poems—[Maybe just as clouds make their own streets] & [En plein air the fields themselves]—in Water~Stone Review. Order your copy of their "Improbable Boundaries" issue now to read all the wonder that the good folks in St. Paul have put together. It's a truly marvelous magazine.
Honored to be included, with Beth Marzoni, in the 25th anniversary issue of Free Verse. What a thing!
Crushing hard on the new issue of DIAGRAM, where two poems from my ongoing collaboration with Beth Marzoni were just published. You can read them here. Maybe it's the only way appropriate way to say goodbye to August, now that I think about it.
Another shout out to Midwestern Gothic, my new crush. They just posted this contributor spotlight, where Beth & I discuss region, the landscape, food, what we are reading, & other such lovely.
So much love to Grist & the museum of americana for nominating my work for Best of the Net. I'm pretty close to speechless.
On the last day of a month we thought would never come, the always sassy & always smart Hobart published two poems of mine, one of which is brand-spanking-new. Caleb Curtiss is a great reader, poet, editor & I'm a big fan—you should be, too.
Mad love for Midwestern Gothic's new issue, which was released today, & features a new poem—[Once, the nomenclature of boulevard & thoroughfare turned common]—from my ongoing collaboration with Beth Marzoni. & seriously, check out Amorek Huey's poems, too. You won't be sorry.