Yeaaaars ago, I sent a poem to voicemail poems that didn’t get in. I’ve continued to enjoy the work they do over there and recently took a second shot, this time with one of the dreamscapes. It just got accepted earlier tonight, so expect a second post this month when the issue goes live. Continue reading

Two more dreamscapes just got picked up, this time by the venerable Prairie Schooner. The manuscript of which they’re part is sitting at 64 pages (I’ve pared it down over the past year from an original “production” of about 120 dreamscapes), and this very nice publication-to-be means that over a third of the poems are… Continue reading

A poem of mine just got accepted for the inaugural issue (Fall 2025) of PHIL LIT Journal. Going back and forth with the editors now on the proof copy. Continue reading

Sūdō Journal has accepted a poem of mine called “you’ll forget it’s arson” for its upcoming issue. This poem isn’t part of any of the collections in progress, just a reaction to the news this year, but I’m looking forward to reading it some coming week at Slam Free or Die (going to have to… Continue reading

Yesterday, I had three poems accepted by a brand-new journal for their inaugural issue. I’ve been given the ok to mention the acceptance (and that it’s a paying venue, which is rather nice), but I’ve also been asked to hold off on linking to the website until it’s fully up and running. So pardon the… Continue reading

Sunspot Lit just picked up another of the hip hop poems (to be published later this month), which in this instance goes out to both XXXTentacion, social media bad boy, and John Taylor, who fewer people these days know about. Taylor was a contemporary of Shakespeare’s, a waterman, and a poet. Watermen, who helped ferry… Continue reading

A sestina I wrote in response to not just one image, but a series of photographs, by Walter Arnold just got accepted by The Ekphrastic Review and will appear there in August. Despite the fact that I’ve been doing ekphrastic pieces for a couple of decades at this point, I have to admit it’s my… Continue reading

“frfr,” a long poem* of mine, has been accepted by the venerable Mudlark. The poem is about science and (my) mental illness and how these things fail each other. I have rarely written anything so personal, but it’s definitely bigger than me. It will appear some time in June. *in 12pt Palatino, it extends one… Continue reading

I’m happy to say my poem “O lord thou pluckest burning,” written in response to the LA wildfires (and various other contemporary issues in the US), has been accepted for the Swan Song issue of PRISM International. I’m excited to see how the theme is interpreted by the other contributors when this comes out. Continue reading

Maintenant, the journal put out by Three Rooms Press, just accepted a visual poem of mine titled “under control” for the forthcoming issue 19. The piece is constructed of lyrics from Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” and is part of the hip-hop manuscript (specifically dedicated to Zack de la Rocha as the… Continue reading