Field Recordings

Well, it's been a full year since I took over managing duties at the Broadkill Review. We are a volunteer editorial staff/board/collective, and share the responsibilities of putting out a bi-monthly literary magazine with a focus on writing from the Mid-Atlantic. Largely, my job has been to put the journal out on the web. I did my best, maintaining the traditional feel of the BKR. If we were a print magazine, we'd look a lot like the American Poetry Journal; for nearly a decade the BKR published a pdf emailed journal, structured and modeled on a tabloid publication. It is possible that I may begin to tweak the website to make it more visually stunning. It takes work, though, and I have novels to edit, poetry manuscripts to arrange, new poems to write, and books to read and review. Anyhoo: here's links to some reviews: Grace Cavalieri  Joan Colby Grant Clauser HA Maxson Ramsey Scott Michael Tims FYI--The majority of the books we are asked/sent to review a...

It feels like ages since I submitted these poems, recorded by Alpine Strangers, to New Plains Review. Not every lit magazine takes spoken versions of poems. I was lucky they were looking for new poetry audio. You can listen to them  here.