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Ho, Hey! All My Rowdy Friends named to Grace Cavalieri's July #Poetry #Exemplars! #iamwriting

I am so grateful for the review of All My Rowdy Friends , from the talented Grace Cavalieri, up at the Washington Independent Review of Books . She leads off with Rita Dove, a favorite poet of mine since high school, I kinda feel like a kid brushing up against legends. I also like Adrienne Rich and Diane Lockward, so I'm still giddy typing this out...

First #story of my #dystopian #cyberpunk #serial available in #LOWL1F3..."Marley & the Dead"

"Marley & the Dead" is the first of a serial story set in my dystopian world of the Stream. What is the Stream? Well it's the internet of the future. There is no privacy. People can access your social media, your biometric data, your history, your search history, everything. Cities are overpopulated, there are levels and floating, hovering apartment complexes, etc. A serial killer known as the Trashman is on the loose. The young forensic doctor Marley introduces the reader to the killer who hides his DNA in the DNA of thousands, by covering his victims in garbage and waste from different locations around the city. Primarily a character driven story, "Marley & The Dead" explore social issues of our possible future. You can get it here.

WM Rivera's book of #poems, #CafeSelect, is out! Featuriing Miguel Conde's art. Guess who wrote the introduction? Moi..#iamwriting #smallspress

WM Rivera's new collection of poetry, paired along side Miguel Conde's paintings is out! I was asked to write the introduction, which was a thrill! A first for me! You can read the press release here. You can read about Miguel Conde here.

"#Ghost Exit of a #Carpenter" featured in "Les Rêves des Notre Ours : Ghosts" #smallpress #speculative #poetry #iamwriting

International poet and publisher Aaron Kent collected "Ghost Exit of a Carpenter" for the second issue of Les Rêves des Notre Ours. The issue is ghost themed. "Ghost Exit of a Carpenter" was written during the quotidian project 2011-2012. Loosely based on an actual experience where I came home for a half second saw an older man walking between my out buildings (sheds) behind my house. My house was built by a carpenter in 1893 by John Cropper, who built several homes on my street. Some of the context of the poem is borrowed from years of research into the Cape Charles Ghost Tours which my wife and I conducted from 2003-2005.

Two #poems anthologized in #Secrets & #Dreams from Kind of a Hurricane Press #iamwriting #smallpress #dreamspies

Writer, poet, and publisher AJ Huffman curated two of my poems for her Secrets and Dreams Anthology.  " Dreamtravel: A dialogue between two Dreamspies" and "Adam Glass Will Be Okay" are among other works included in the anthology. You can order a paper copy here or download the e-book.  "Dreamtravel" is a speculative poem, where "Adam Glass" is a narrative character study from the largely unpublished Fear of Glass manuscript and notebooks.