My poem “Penguins at the Art Museum,” set at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and featuring penguins from the Kansas City Zoo, was published by The Ekphrastic Review alongside my favorite Rembrandt painting!
Category Archives: Publication
“Penguins at the Art Museum” at Legible
I’m so happy that Legible wanted to share my poem “Penguins at the Art Museum.” I hope I can get myself to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art again before too long also.
“What to Expect” on Poetry Unbound!
I woke up this morning and listened to my favorite podcast, but today it features my poem! Thanks to Pádraig Ó Tuama and all of the Poetry Unbound staff at The On Being Project for this incredible gift.
Listen here (transcript available).
May: The Other Journal, The Canopy Review, Guilty Pleasures, & Forms!
The end of May has found me busy preparing for things that shouldn’t overlap. I always release the summer issue of Whale Road Review during the first week of June, but my university delayed our spring semester’s start, so the first week of June is also our last week of classes. On top of that, the Popular Culture Association national conference (for which I run the Poetry Studies & Creative Poetry area) also moved this year from Boston during Easter week to a virtual platform during the first week of June. It’s absurd that these major roles I play are all colliding this coming week, but I’m as ready to rock as I can be.
Before I jump into this absurd week, here’s a look back at some lovely things from May that I didn’t get a chance to share here yet:
The Other Journal was especially good to me, re-publishing my poem “The Book of Fists” in their newest print issue and also publishing this beautiful review that Tom C. Hunley wrote about my latest chapbook, 28,065 Nights.
The Canopy Review published two of my poems in their second issue, and they’ve featured “The Book of Ear” on their website. (You can find that poem and “The Book of Ash” in the print issue.)
The “Guilty Pleasures” Crystal Field Scholarship Reading was held via Zoom on May 21, and I was honored to read a brand new poem in the company of some Kansas City poetry stars. I received the Crystal Field Scholarship 15 years ago during my time at UMKC, so it’s a special joy to thank the writers who keep this scholarship funded and to give back now.
Finally, I received the contributor copies of How to Write a Form Poem, which includes my ghazal “Time Falling” and my found poem “The Book of Class.” I’m so grateful to Tania Runyan for including my work and feel overwhelmed to have my poems in such stunning company.
Now to let these lovely things fuel me through the wild week ahead!
A Harp in the Stars
I’m so thrilled to have a micro essay (or is it a prose poem?) included in this new lyric essay anthology, A Harp in the Stars, edited by Randon Billings Noble! You can pre-order it now from University of Nebraska Press if you’re so inclined.
Three Poems in Limp Wrist
I’m so honored to have three poems in the new issue of Limp Wrist! My poem “In Praise of Spouse” was a finalist for the 2021 Glitter Bomb Award.
Fun fact: I wrote this poem after listening to Pádraig O’Tuama read “Bone of My Bone and Flesh of my Flesh” by Ellen Bass on the Poetry Unbound podcast. I adore that poem, but Bass so quickly dismisses my favorite public term for my love, so I had to write this poem for my spouse.
You can also read my poems “Con Pane” (named for my favorite bakery!) and “Temporomandibular Prayer” (named for my TMJ!) in this issue. Thanks to editor Dustin Brookshire for affirming and publishing my work.
Poem in Lucky Jefferson
Lucky Jefferson is the coolest journal! Every poem in this issue riffs on the same opening and closing line. There are blank pages to respond or compose your own poem between sets, and there’s a Spotify playlist from contributor recommendations at the end. I’m so thrilled to be part of this!
I’m grateful to the editors both for the prompt that led me to create “Sometimes I Shake Too” and for the gift of this stunning issue! You can buy a copy here.
“The Domino Effect” in The Curator
The Curator published my poem “The Domino Effect” earlier this month, and I’m honored to be included in this beautiful digital magazine.
I’m also excited to join with more contributors on April 29 at 5:30 Pacific for a virtual reading in celebration of National Poetry Month! You can register for the reading here.
How to Write a Form Poem
I am somewhere past thrilled to have two poems, a ghazal and a found poem, included in How to Write a Form Poem (T.S. Poetry Press, 2021) by Tania Runyan. This fantastic book is now available to buy, to adopt for classes, to give as gifts… it’s going to come in handy all over the place.
Tania also interviewed me about “The Book of Class,” my found poem that’s included in the book, and you can read that interview here. I don’t think I’ve ever teared up at an introduction to an interview before, but now I can say confidently that I have.
Three Poems in Verse-Virtual
To kick off National Poetry Month, I have three poems in the April issue of Verse-Virtual. This was my first submission to this journal, and I love the focus on community building and the note at the bottom of each page that encourages readers to contact the author if they love a piece.
My three poems in this issue are harder to share than most. They deal with the car accident that took the lives of my spouse’s parents. If you’re up for reading about my wishes to rewind and rewrite the past, the details of the car accident that kept me from sleeping well for months because I kept imagining it, and the bronchoscopy I witnessed, then these poems are for you. If you need to skip these poems, I will certainly understand.
I highly encourage you to read more of this issue, especially Barbara Crooker’s poem, which uses the Spanish glosa form. Thanks to editor Jim Lewis for curating this space and including my poems!