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Looking forward, looking back
I’m not going to do a whole end-of-year summary post, nor an exhaustive looking-forward post. But I just confirmed with Myles Taylor that I’ll be the featured poet at The Boston Poetry Slam on May 6, 2026, which feels nice. The last time I featured there was way back in 2009, doing work that was Continue reading
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Under the wire
Unbroken, a journal dedicated to prose poems under the ambidextrous bloodhound press umbrella, just accepted a dreamscape for their January 2026 issue, which I am happy to say will work out (there is still time to get them in the acknowledgements for the book – which is an ongoing series of discussions with various editors). Continue reading
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these are the waterfalls in my head
Announcements are officially up on social media, so I can say it here: my manuscript these are the waterfalls in my head, which I have referred to regularly over the past couple of years as the dreamscapes, won the Granite State Poetry Prize and will be published by Yas Press (University of New Hampshire) in Continue reading
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Rattle proper
Tim Green made mention of this on RattleCast last night, but I’m just posting about it here now: after having poems selected for Poets Respond and the monthly Prompts, I’m going to have a poem in the actual print version of Rattle. Oddly enough, this one isn’t quite connected to any of my larger manuscripts Continue reading
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A dream of a tree in a desert
Pangyrus has picked up another of the dreamscapes. I’m really starting to feel some momentum here. Continue reading
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Let the Wild Rumpus begin
The Rumpus, one of my favorite journals, just accepted two of the hip hop poems. One is a dictionary entry, the other a sudo-ku, a form pioneered by Kat Lehmann. Continue reading
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Chapbook Workshop
If you’re in Manchester, NH next Tuesday (December 9), I’m leading a workshop on the history, variety, and making of chapbooks at The Moka Pot on behalf of Slam Free or Die as part of their monthly workshop series. We hope to start around 6:30, and tips are appreciated as I’ll be providing some sewing Continue reading
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Closing out November with something small
Password: the journal of very short poetry just accepted two (do I even need to say the next word?) short poems of mine today, including one that’s kind of a three-column contrapuntal variation. They’ll appear in issue 3.1, hopefully February 2026. Continue reading
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Fingers crossed
The dreamscapes manuscript (which I suppose I should just start referring to by its title – these are the waterfalls in my head) has been longlisted for YesYes Books‘s 2025 open reading period. Those of us on it will find out in late December (most likely) which books from that list are getting published. Continue reading
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Missed updates
A while back, brand-new journal Opol published three of my poems. Earlier this month, the editor was kind enough to nominate one of them for a Pushcart. And I just got word that that poem will appear in the quarterly, downloadable, purchasable edition in mid-December. Many thanks to Venessa! Continue reading
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