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

I’m excited to say Diannely Antigua has selected my poem “semicolon” to be featured in the Aplomb Project‘s 2025 Portrait Project Book. It’s become an annual mixed-media anthology of sorts of art, stories, and poetry about resilience in the face of trauma. There will be a gala at the gallery on Jun 21, which I… Continue reading

RipRap, a literary journal out of California State University – Long Beach, just accepted two more of the hip hop poems for publication in their next issue. One is a blues that goes out to both Cardi B and Lillian Randolph, who voiced the Mammy character in the original Tom & Jerry cartoons and had… Continue reading

Gulf Stream Magazine just accepted one of the dreamscapes for its next issue (which has the theme “Last Words”). They’ve had the piece for a while and indicated to me that they held off on responding because they knew that eventually they’d have an issue in which it belonged, so I suppose this is the… Continue reading

Dadaist magazine Pfudalmda is looking for one-word poems around the theme of “lofve” for March. I submitted one at 8:03pm my time and got the acceptance at 8:16. The previous issue, “warfair,” really is worth a read, and I am genuinely excited to be part of this little mag. Continue reading

A poem I wrote for/about my mom and her relationship to her deceased parents and my relationship to her relating to them, “the agnostic’s three branches,” just got accepted by Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts. Continue reading