Hello all. I'm thankful and grateful for the hardworking folks at the Broadkill Press who have slaved over my new chapbook, The Black Narrows , which will be published soon. The chapbook is a series of loosely connected poems about a world seeped in a black market economy, generational poverty, alcoholism, and working on the water, or with the land. These are common themes in my work, however, these are inspired by Steampunk imagery, neo-Victorian imagery, and the landscape of the Delmarva pennisula. The chapbook will be ten ducats, reasonably priced, and can be had over on the Broadkill Press website . Figment, the writing social network, will feature a short profile on me and my chapbook to coincide with its release, which will be seen by thousands of readers as they log in to the webpage. I'm wrapping up my quotidian project, which has been fun, rewarding, and at times overwhelming. This summer will find me organzing all the "new" poems and perhaps even...
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