Today I received contributors’ copies of Rattle #30, due out in December. The poem they published was selected as an honorable mention in The Rattle Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Joseph Fasano, whose first-place poem is wonderful, to the other honorable-mention poets, and to all those poets whose poems were selected for this special issue focusing …
I actually received word from a fellow student (thanks, Ron) that Oregon Literary Review published this poem on their website. Beyond the main subject of the poem, which is the loss of our infant son, the poem has a lot of creative history for me, some of which I plan to discuss during my graduate …
This afternoon felt like Christmas. Except that Santa pulled up to our place in a black Thunderbird, on time as usual for her piano lesson with my wife. And instead of a red velvet sack, she came in cradling a small cardboard box. Inside were the fruits of many months of painstaking labor: sixty eight …
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The March/April issue of North American Review arrived yesterday, bearing one of my poems. Yes, you read that right–the March/April issue arrived yesterday, at the end of November. Our nation’s oldest literary magazine is also currently one of its tardiest. As a subscriber (and now contributor), I wrote to them in June (when the December …
I just received my contributor’s copy of Volume Eight of Cider Press Review, which includes one poem inspired by the time I lived in central Los Angeles. I was also pleasantly surprised to see a poem by Kathleen Tyler, with whom I studied in Suzanne Lummis‘ masterclass several years ago, included in this volume chock …
When my wife found out the International Museum Of Women asked me to submit a poem, she didn’t miss a beat: “You go girl!” In actuality, they are preparing an exhibit featuring the art of young men as an analogue to their recent and highly successful “Imagining Ourselves” exhibit featuring young women. I just learned …
