I’m delighted and grateful that the editors of Verse Daily chose “Against Elegy” (which appears in my new book The Fawn Abyss) as today’s featured poem on their site.
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Reviews of Mark Cox & Bill Knott
My brief reviews of Mark Cox’s Sorrow Bread: Poems 1984-2015 and Bill Knott’s I Am Flying Into Myself: Selected Poems 1960-2014 appear in the new August issue of Plume.
New Poem in Sierra Nevada Review
My poem “Cartoon Network Airs Nine Commercials Straight” appears in the latest print issue (Vol. 28) of Sierra Nevada Review.
Review of Patricia Smith
My review of Patricia Smith’s Incendiary Art appears in the new July issue of Plume.
New Poems in Diode & Santa Ana River Review
I have two new poems in the latest issue of Diode (Vol. 10, Issue 2) and my sonnet “Captive Raptor” appears in the new issue of Santa Ana River Review (Vol. 2, Issue 2, Spring 2017).
Review of Robert Gibb
Catafalque Wins 2017 Richard Wilbur Award!
I’m excited and honored to share the news that my third poetry collection, Catafalque, has won the 2017 Richard Wilbur Award and will be published by the University of Evansville Press later this winter!
