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Sex, Drugs, & Senryu
Prune Juice, a journal that’s all about experimentation and play with traditional Japanese forms (e.g. haiku, senryu, etc) just accepted one of the hip hop poems for their upcoming issue, which has the theme “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” It has a title. And is about bounce music. Feel free to clutch your pearls… Continue reading
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Quest-pilled
A long poem from the hip hop manuscript – a mashing up of A Tribe Called Quest, Charles Mingus, and Malcolm X – is now slated to appear in The Pill issue iii, due out April 1. The magazine has kindly provided a great image for us to promote that with: Continue reading
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I will have been in HAD
HAD, that wonderfully quirky journal, just picked up one of the hip hop poems. I’ll be sure to link to it when it goes live. Continue reading
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An occasion
I just got the ok to let folks know that a poem of mine written in memoriam for Andrea Gibson is included in On Occasion: Poems for the People, an anthology coming out soon from Coach House Books and edited by Sina Queyras. Continue reading
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Flashback
Wess “Mongo” Jolley’s fantastic archive, The Performance Poetry Preservation Project, has a copy of the NPS 2011 Sampler CD. I’ve mentioned in bios for journals from time to time that I was on a CD handed out to all the participants of the 2011 National Poetry Slam, and I just realized/discovered I can point to… Continue reading
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A word, if you please
Heliosparrow, a great little journal of little poems, has accepted a one-word visual poem of mine. The title is two words, making it longer than the main body text, which tickles me to no end. It’s a monostich, meaning a one-line poem that interacts meaningfully with its title. Continue reading
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Looking forward, looking back
I’m not going to do a whole end-of-year summary post, nor an exhaustive looking-forward post. But I just confirmed with Myles Taylor that I’ll be the featured poet at The Boston Poetry Slam on May 6, 2026, which feels nice. The last time I featured there was way back in 2009, doing work that was… Continue reading
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Under the wire
Unbroken, a journal dedicated to prose poems under the ambidextrous bloodhound press umbrella, just accepted a dreamscape for their January 2026 issue, which I am happy to say will work out (there is still time to get them in the acknowledgements for the book – which is an ongoing series of discussions with various editors). Continue reading
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these are the waterfalls in my head
Announcements are officially up on social media, so I can say it here: my manuscript these are the waterfalls in my head, which I have referred to regularly over the past couple of years as the dreamscapes, won the Granite State Poetry Prize and will be published by Yas Press (University of New Hampshire) in… Continue reading
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Rattle proper
Tim Green made mention of this on RattleCast last night, but I’m just posting about it here now: after having poems selected for Poets Respond and the monthly Prompts, I’m going to have a poem in the actual print version of Rattle. Oddly enough, this one isn’t quite connected to any of my larger manuscripts… Continue reading
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