New year! New chapbooks! New poems!
Hello, friends! Someday I will pay a niece or nephew to maintain this website, but in the meantime, it’s just me, and this blog, and the occasional news.
The last few years have been particularly prolific for me in poetry, and I’ve been doing my best to keep this page of my website up to date. So feel free to go browse some poems. I have also published a few essays and flash fictions and you can find those here.
The big news so far for 2020 is that I have a brand new chapbook, BEHIND, ALL YOU’VE GOT available now from Semiperfect Press!
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This smol chap is a collection of erasure poems written using articles from old issues of Nintendo Power Magazine—yes, the mag from the 80s and 90s that you used to help you figure out how to beat Metroid and Lemmings. I wrote the poems in this chapbook in 2014 and 2015 before I got sick, so a part of me feels like the poems are missives from the past, just like the material they were sourced from. Poems from this chap were first published in Nashville Review, Noble / Gas Qtrly, Whale Road Review, and Third Point Press, and you can find a few here:
“Without heads, living statues”
“Airborne, essential”
“Throw”
“You have to keep occupied”
“Battle a Man” and “I scream”
Check out Semiperfect Press to pick up a copy!
In other Good! News! my out of print chapbook WE’RE DOING WITCHCRAFT will be reprinted in March by Porkbelly Press and I know this title was in and out of print so fast a lot of folks totally missed the first run. But! Here it is! Thank you so much to Nicci Mechler at Porkbelly for giving this chapbook a new home.
[image error]Porkbelly Press, March 2019
WE’RE DOING WITCHCRAFT will be available next month, but if you’re at AWP in San Antonio next week, I will have copies on me. Otherwise, keep an eye on the Porkbelly Press poetry catalog.
Next week I’ll be participating in two readings and a panel and I hope to see you there! Info on where to find me is below—be sure to come say hi! I’ll have books and chapbooks for sale with me and I’m of course looking forward to seeing everyone and their beautiful books and writings. Maybe, if we’re very lucky, I’ll update this page again before AWP 2021. See you in San Antonio!
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