"Systems Inertia," A Bees' Breakfast anthology, Beautiful Dragons Press, May 2017.

"The Devil in Boston," Barking Sycamores, Issue 12 (June 2017).

"Radiant Things," Noble Dissent anthology, Beautiful Dragons Press, November 2017.

(I'll post the texts of the two print-only poems later from home.)

* My new poetry manuscript, Things Being What They Are, has been long-listed for the 2017 Sexton Prize. That's about as much as I can say at the moment, and it's unbearably exciting!

* I have a new poem out in Barking Sycamores. It went live in June, but I forgot to mention it.

* I'm the new SFPA Treasurer.  Most of you probably caught this news ( Read more... )

Gabriel Noel, "If I Told You"
Symantha Reagor, "How to Breathe On Venus"
José González Vargas, "Last Time"
Rose Condon, "The day after we saved the city"
T.D. Walker, "Iris"
Ethan Chua, "Explorers"
Ada Hoffmann, "Million-Year Elegies: Oviraptor"
Mary Soon Lee, "The Sign of the King"
Richard Ford Burley, "I Fight Monsters"

"XX/XY," Mythic Delirium, June 2016

"Jellyfish / Out of Water," Liminality, Issue 8.

"Augur Effect," Spelling the Hours, Stone Bird Press, July 2016.

"Sargasso Sea," Remixt Magazine (forthcoming)

"Widening Gyre," [Title TBA], Beautiful Dragons Press (forthcoming)An update on my present location, too, which I may or may not have mentioned: I ( Read more... )

(My fellowship/MFA program ended a few days ago, so I'm attempting to catch up on everything I've semi-neglected online.)

Please consider contributing to the Hidden Youth anthology Kickstarter, especially if you enjoyed the volume that preceded it (Long Hidden). At 62%-funded, this really does look achievable; Crossed Genres is fiercely committed ( Read more... )

I've updated my previous post with links to the pieces that were previously forthcoming.  There's new poetry to be had now, in link form.  Two are books (anthologies) that you can buy ( Read more... )

"Red Wire," "Monsters," and "Slipknot" (reprints); Tiny Moments, ed. David Pring-Mill, March 2016

"Plague Year," Barking Sycamores: Year One, ed. V. Solomon Maday and N.I. Nicholson, Spring 2016

"Outbound," "Oblivious," and "The Calm Before"; Belmont Story Review, Spring 2016

"XX/XY," Mythic Delirium, June 2016

"Jellyfish" and "Out of Water," ( Read more... )

"Bone-­House," Liminality #4, Summer 2015 (LINK TO POEM)

Poem Trilogy: "Red Wire," "Monsters," and "Slipknot"; SWAMP #17, September 2015 (LINK TO POEMS)

"Transition Metal," My Dear Watson: The Very Elements of Poetry, Beautiful Dragons Press, November 2015
(PRINT­-ONLY ANTHOLOGY; SEE BELOW FOR TEXT OF POEM)

( Transition Metal )

The three new poems I'd mentioned are now live in SWAMP Issue #17, along with work from a colleague of mine, Matthew Porto.  Please do support this fantastic Australia-based MFA journal ( Read more... )

Wellesley Writes It: An Interview With Poet / Editor A.J. Odasso '05