Happy Leap Day to me!
I came home to two publications in the mailbox. My poem “Waking on Palm Sunday” is in the new issue of The Cresset.
My poem “Before Breakfast,” which I wrote in response to the photo “Sunflowers” by Debarshi Ray, was published as a broadside by Black Orchid Designs (ELJ Publications).
Thanks, editors!
Good news! I’ve now got copies of The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman! It felt good to run out, but I’m happy to have some again in time for all of my March conferences (WTS in San Diego, PCA/ACA in Seattle, and AWP in LA).
If you don’t have a copy yet, you can get one directly from me: $10 by mail (covers shipping), $7 in person. (It’s also on Amazon, but it’s more fun to buy a signed one from me.)
I can also ship a signed copy to any person of your choice for any reason you’d like (Leap Day? Birthday? Easter? Mother’s Day? Talk Like a Pirate Day?). Check my contact page and send me an email if you’d like one (or even more than one… I’m open to group discounts if you want to buy a bunch!).
NOTE: I also have a handful of copies of I Awake in My Womb if you need to satisfy your desire for strange pregnancy dream poems. 🙂
My January post is up at Poetry Has Value. I’m focusing on sending my poems to paying markets this year… so far I’m down $3, but I’m feeling good.
I’ve joined Jessica Piazza’s Poetry Has Value project for 2016, meaning I’ll be keeping a public record of my poetry submissions, fees, acceptances, payment, and rejections. I’m excited (and somewhat terrified) to be part of this!
If you’d like to see the parameters of my project and/or if you’d like to read a specific list of things I fear, here is my introductory post.
I’m pleased that one of my poems is included in Done Darkness, a new anthology from Orange Hat Publishing.
What an honor to have my poem “The Book of L” in Rock & Sling alongside work by fantastic writers I know: Karen An-hwei Lee, Devon Miller-Duggan, and Jessie Janeshek. I’m also loving poems by writers who are new to me, especially J. Morris and Rebecca Lauren. Wow! Thanks, Thom Caraway!
 
My contributor note about my current poetry project is featured today on Rock & Sling’s website! Thanks, Thom Caraway and company!
“This project began because I was tired of people taking language from the Bible out of context and using it as a weapon against other people, so I decided to take language from the Bible out of context and create art…”
I’ve been dreaming of starting an online literary journal for several years, and today I published the first issue of Whale Road Review!
I’m so thrilled by the quality of the work in our inaugural issue. Enjoy!
My paper on Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem, “Praise Song for the Day,” was just accepted for publication in TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics.
I’ve been working on this off and on since 2010, and I’m so thrilled that it’s found a good home! I’ll certainly post a link here when the paper is published.
The Poetry Circus in Griffith Park on September 19 was incredible. Nicelle Davis gathered somewhere around 30 poets together for the program and made everything magical. I wish we could have a poetry circus every weekend! I loved hearing so many amazing poets perform their work.
I broke out my Jesus costume for the occasion, and I had a great time posing for photos and trading/selling copies of The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman. I read a poem from that collection and a poem from a new collection-in-progress. I got a collective “Amen” from the audience, and it was good. 🙂
One person told me, “I’m sorry. I don’t believe in you.” I said, “That’s okay. I’m still here.”