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August 27, 2019

New review of How to Know the Flowers

By Kim Jacobs-Beck, up at Crab Creek Review. Advertisements
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Published on August 27, 2019 15:55

February 6, 2019

How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers is now available at Small Press Distribution! Advertisements
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Published on February 06, 2019 18:22

November 23, 2018

How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers, my third book, is forthcoming from Veliz Books and now listed on its website, along with the cover and blurbs! Advertisements
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Published on November 23, 2018 19:07

August 6, 2018

Recent Book Reviews: Don Mee Choi and Joanne Kyger

On Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War On Joanne Kyger’s On Time, There You Are, and Japan and India Journals Advertisements
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Published on August 06, 2018 15:14

July 24, 2018

How to Know the Flowers

I’m thrilled to announce that my recent manuscript, How to Know the Flowers, was accepted for publication by Veliz Books. I wrote How to Know the Flowers in the spring of 2017. It’s about sexual harassment, grief, and repairing oneself … Continue reading →
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Published on July 24, 2018 18:27

April 15, 2018

Upcoming Events

I will be at the New Orleans Poetry Festival next week, where I will be hosting the Coven/Bloof Reading, celebrating the release of Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene and the life of Black Radish Books editor Marthe Reed, … Continue reading →
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Published on April 15, 2018 16:13

April 6, 2018

Two new books

I have a short essay on zines and teen librarianship in Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel (eds. Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharpe) and an entry on teeth in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene (eds. Linda Russo … Continue reading →
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Published on April 06, 2018 17:52

January 7, 2018

Portfolio site

I made a portfolio website using Adobe’s MyPortfolio to show my print design work and some of the book arts education I’ve done, mostly at Indian Springs School, but now also at the Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest. From … Continue reading →
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Published on January 07, 2018 17:33

November 26, 2017

Poetry Manuscript Finalist

My manuscript, How to Know the Flowers, was a finalist through the 2017 Sundress Publications Open Reading Period.  Advertisements Filed under: personal
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Published on November 26, 2017 19:24

July 30, 2017

Miami University MFA

I have joined the low-residency MFA program at Miami University, where Hoa Nguyen and Laura Van Prooyen are the poetry mentors.  These poets join the experimental-minded poetry faculty in Miami’s residential MFA program, Keith Tuma, Cathy Wagner, and cris cheek … Continue reading →
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Published on July 30, 2017 15:21