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2018 was kind to me, publishing-wise. A few MFA related journals accepted work, and was featured in a few independent journals, and on the local NPR affiliate. The above is from the Norfolk-Hampton Rhoads centric magazine Penultimate Peanut, and the below pic is from Winnow, a new independent journal.  I'm terrible at updating this blog and have weaned myself from too much twitter and instagram, etc. Reading is far better for my mental health than social media.

There's been plenty of rejection--but this year I upped my submissions to close to 100 (there are 25 plus pieces under consideration & I am shortlisted for two international journals). In other words, I still don't know what I am doing!

In the new year, look for a new broadside from broadsidedpress (yep, broadsided), a new poem in Toe Good, and UFO abduction poem in Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, and (hopefully) a new novel, entitled Mulch, from Montag Press (books worth burning!). I'll put those links out when they happen; they are simply good news on the wind.

Several successful grant applications for work, and two grant rejections (but with overwhelmingly positive feedback--and invitations to resubmit).

Still learning how to be an editor. Haven't figured out how to get to the Dogfish Head Poetry Release party. Working on that.

Have seen amazing writers read this year, must continue to seek out regional readings.

Plenty of gratitude from where I'm sitting, and plenty of work for me to do to be a better person.

Favorite poetry reads from this year: Terrance Hayes' American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assasins,  Nancy Mitchell's The Out of Body Shop, Beth Bachmann's Cease, Charlie Bondhus's Divining Bones, Layli Long Soldier's Whereas, Sean Thomas Dougherty's The Second O in Sorrow, and others.






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