My new chapbook, 28,065 Nights, is now available for pre-order from River Glass Books!
This is a collection of prose poems that explore storytelling, grief, and love. I wrote these poems to my Granny after her death, so this book is extra dear to me.
I’m so grateful to Kimberly Dawn and Marley Stuart for making this beautiful chapbook of my poems!
Thank you to the editors of Memoir Mixtapes for re-printing my poem “Ojo Caliente,” which was first published in the American Journal of Nursing. I love that they include a playlist of the connected songs for each piece, so definitely listen along as you read the whole issue!
Thanks to Michael Klam and the rest of the editorial team for reprinting my poem “The Ghosts of Missing Animals” (originally in SWWIM) in Springtime in Paradise, the 27th annual Border Voices anthology! I’m honored to have my work in the company of such talented young poets (and some talented grown-up poets too).
I’m so thrilled to have a poem included in this new anthology, Erase the Patriarchy, edited by Isobel O’Hare. You can order copies now!
I almost missed this year’s Glen Workshop, and even the day before I felt like I probably shouldn’t be doing it because I desperately needed more time to plan for virtual delivery of my fall classes, but I’m so glad I did. The community I find at this workshop is always so valuable, and even though we had to be online, we still spent the week laughing, talking all things poetry, sharing new poems in workshops, generating new poems… it was a glorious and rejuvenating time! Thanks to Lisa Cockrel, Sara Arrigoni, and the rest of the Image staff who make it happen!
Natasha Oladokun was a warm and welcoming workshop leader, and her emphasis on radical revision led us into some wonderful discussions (and led me to some exciting revisions!). I just adored each person in this workshop, and I’m so thankful that I got to spend a week in their company. I hope we’ll get to be together in person some time in the future.
What an honor to have my essay “How to Network as a Poet” included in Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets!
Edited by Abayomi Animashaun, this anthology includes essays by many poets I already admired and several poets that I’m happy to meet in these pages. Black Lawrence Press is offering 25% off on anthologies through July 31, so now is a good time to get a copy. I’m thankful for this joyful book in the midst of stressful days.
What a fantastic surprise to have my poem “Eldritch Horror” included in The 2020 Rhysling Anthology! Thanks to Bowery Gothic for first publishing this poem and to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association for selecting it!
I never expected to appear in this collection of the best science-fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry published the previous year, but I’m so thrilled to be there, and it’s even sweeter to have my work appear alongside a poem by Ellen Huang, my friend and former student.
This summer, I’ve been participating in Wednesday Night Poetry, the longest running weekly poetry reading in the nation. This series is usually in Arkansas, but its presence online is one is those unexpectedly beautiful things that has come about during the pandemic. I’m so grateful to Kai Coggin for hosting this event and curating this reading in such a welcoming, inclusive, affirming way. This has been a summer highlight for me.
Last night I shared my poem “Nevermore,” a love poem for my Granny from my chapbook 28,065 Nights, which will be published next month by River Glass Books.
I’ve been feeling overwhelmed with the state of the world, so I’m going to take a little time this week to record some good poetry news from the past few months.
This spring, I had four poems published in Women & Language, Vol. 43, Iss. 1: “Mobbing,” “Are You Sleeping?,” “Dear God,” and “Let’s Not Look Back.” Thanks to editor Leland G. Spencer for including my work.
If you want to read these poems and aren’t able to purchase a print copy or access the issue through one of the library databases listed on their website, please let me know.
Hereverent, my new full-length poetry manuscript, was a semi-finalist in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry!
Life was overwhelming in late May when I got this news, and life is still overwhelming, but I’m so grateful for this affirmation of my work from one of the first places I’ve sent this manuscript.
Several of the poems in this collection were published as a digital chapbook, A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions, 2016), so you can check that out at this link if you’re interested.