Category Archives: Publication

A Door with a Voice: Poems, Review, & Interview

The past two weeks have been some of the worst of my life. My mother-in-law was killed in a car crash that put my father-in-law in the ICU, and now it looks like he won’t make it either. We are so heartbroken.

I’m thankful right now for any happy news that I can get, and I have three pieces of good poetry news today.

Five poems from A Door with a Voice were published in Eunoia Review.
Erika Dreifus posted a review of A Door with a Voice.
Nancy Chen Long posted an interview with me about A Door with a Voice.

And if you’re interested, you can read the poetry collection itself: A Door with a Voice.

A DOOR WITH A VOICE

My new chapbook is here! A Door with a Voice was published by Agape Editions today and is available as a free download!

Poetry Has Value: May

Here is my May post, in which it’s my birthday, and I can shout about reading fees if I want to!

(♪♫ Shout if I want to, shout if I want to! ♪♫)

With Carolyne Wright at PCA/ACA in Seattle

5 Poems in Quail Bell Magazine

Quail Bell Magazine published 5 poems from my Bible word banking project today. Thanks, Quail Bell editors!

The first two poems are part of my forthcoming chapbook from Agape Editions, A Door with a Voice, due out this summer!

Two Game Poems at Luna Luna

Two of my game poems were re-published today at Luna Luna!

One is about playing Yahtzee and missing my Granny. The other is about not writing “crotchless panties” in a game of Scattergories.

Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award!

I’ve been given clearance to tell the world: my first full-length poetry manuscript, Tasty Other, has won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award!

Main Street Rag let the book award news out of the bag at AWP via a raffle entry form…

MSR Raffle Entry at AWP16 - Marked

The award includes a cash prize, author copies, and publication. The book is due out in November. Tasty Other explores the transition to mother identity, and it grew out of the creative portion of my dissertation.

(I was shaking with excitement for about two hours after I got the phone call. I deleted some exclamation points above so I can at least appear cooler in print than I am in person, but I’m so thrilled and honored!)

In related good news, Main Street Rag just received the Best Small Press award from Mid-American Review at the AWP conference last week! Congrats to them!

Math Poetry!

I’m happy to have two of my math-related poems reprinted in the new issue of Talking Writing! “28,065 Nights” was first published in NonBinary Review. “Week by Week” was first published in Thrush Poetry Journal.

I’m also excited to present Wild Equations: A Math Poetry Reading with the other poets in the issue this coming Saturday at AWP in LA!

The Museum of All Things Awesome

I feel like the world must not be such a terrible place since there is an anthology called The Museum of All Things Awesome and That Go Boom. I’m pleased that my poem “Baba Yaga’s Answer” will be reprinted in it! You can check out the book launch site and buy a print or e-book copy at the link above.

“28,065 Nights” in NonBinary Review

I’ve been writing a series of prose poems to/about my Granny, and “28,065 Nights” was the first one of them to be published. The title refers to the number of nights my Granny was alive. These poems are hard to write, but I need them.

This whole Arabian Nights issue of NonBinary Review is really wonderful. I’m so glad it’s available online now! Check out the poems by E Kristin Anderson, M. Brett Gaffney, Sarah Ghoshal, Jen Stein, and more!

An ELJ Broadside & The Cresset

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.

The Cresset cover The Cresset - Waking on Palm Sunday

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).

ELJ Broadside

Thanks, editors!