Poetry screenshots, writer's notebook, forthcoming work, broadsides, poetry, novel

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.

Summer Poetry Reading in Rehoboth

If anyone's interested in a mid-summer run to Rehoboth's outlet malls, consider Tuesday, July 27th, and stop by the Rehoboth Beach Librar y for the summer poetry series. Besides moi, Denise Clemmons, poet and food critic for the Cape Gazette, and Sherry Chapplle, poet and professor. Excellent company. Books will be for sale afterwards. It's a quality series, and full of surprises. Garry Hanna has done a bang-up job organizing the summer series. Bring a few quarters to ward off the meter maid. Reading starts at 7:00 PM.

Out this week: Thirty Days: Best of the 30/30 Project. Featuring my poem "Love in Reverse"

Marie Gauthier of Tupelo Press selected one of my poems, "Love in Reverse" for Thirty Days : The best of the 30/30 Project Year One. It's one of a few anthologies to feature my work (cue haughty accent, spotlight, espresso, and French cigarettes). Hopefully you'll be hearing more from me over the next few months as projects near completion. Thanks for the support.

Vittorio Carli's work is punk rock #poetry

A Passion for Apathy: The Collected and Rejected Poems of Vittorio Carl i, a small press gem of punk rock poetry, carries poetic traditions in its teeth. Punk rock because of the in-your-face-anti-establishment irony and earnestness in Carli's presentation of his verse, traditional in the homage and muse tradition of poetry. He writes to and for those and that which enlarges his voice. Carli's work reads like a cross between cultural commentary/homage to persons as varied as Lawrence Welk to Woody Allen, to snapshots of socio-political unrest, which are flags of protest. My favorite is the “The Trouble with Librarians (for Andrea)” where Librarians are cast as the progenitors of closed information; they are “all closed books/with a couple of pages missing.” He's a poet, and I imagine him in some stacked room typing madly, or in transit, to and fro Chicago, scribbling on the back of brown paper bags. He works it. He's out there living poetry. Proof. My copy of t...

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