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Ghost in the Garlic
My poem “Turing Test,” which involves AI, Alan Turing, and a Ouija board, just got picked up by Allium. It’s one of my personal favorite pieces in the manuscript of which it’s a part, so this is particularly nice. Continue reading
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Rejection
A poem I submitted to The New Yorker just got rejected after (drum roll, please) two years and one day less than two months. Obviously I (or nearly any poet) see way more rejections than acceptances, so it’s generally not worth bringing them up. Heck, I’ve actually had a string of “personalized” rejections lately where… Continue reading
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a printed canoe in the works
I feel bad putting this out there without more detail, but Half and One emailed me to say one of the two dreamscapes of mine they’d published online, “[Tonight you are paddling a canoe in the middle of the ocean…],” is going to appear in the print version of that journal at some point in… Continue reading
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Enlightenment means giving a HOOT
Quite a while back, I wrote a sequence of poems about people finding enlightenment (in the buddhist sense) in usual situations. That sequence is part of a manuscript I’m sending out now, but in the meantime, I’m happy to say one of the paths less traveled is forthcoming in HOOT, a magazine with one of… Continue reading
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bread and subsets
The Midnight Snack, a subset of The Family Room, a subset of Press Pause Press, is going to be publishing a food poem of mine in January (most likely): “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.” Continue reading
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A fantastic geography
Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature has published a poem of mine ruminating on the place of the Blues in the creation of America. The crossroads has been touched on many times, but as the poem says, you can’t help but come to it. Continue reading
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My thanks to DMQ Review
for nominating “[Tonight you are bagging groceries…]” for a Pushcart Prize. There’s long been some debate about just how significant a nomination is in the grand scheme of things, but I think the most positive outlook is that it means a journal didn’t just like one’s work, it really liked one’s work. And that means… Continue reading
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a kitsune is coming into port
Puerto del Sol recently accepted a poem of mine featuring a fox spirit and a furry convention for their Spring 2025 print issue. I was really fond of this one after writing it, and PdS feels like a great home for it. Continue reading
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Hare’s Paw caught a spider
A fun little nature poem of mine about spiders coming inside for the winter is forthcoming in Hare’s Paw Literary Journal. I hope this falls on the side of wholesome rather than idiotic, but I’m not joking when I say I chose them to submit the piece to them because of their logo. Continue reading
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