Thank you to Abigail A. Jones, Dr. William Anthony Nericcio, and the team at pacificREVIEW at San Diego State University for selecting “Mea Culpa” for their 2022 editon “Atlantis and other lost places.” The gorgeous cover art, below, is by Ann Calandrano. Available in print only.
Dorr Township Library Salad Pie
What a fun evening Thursday was! At Dorr Township library we talked about IMAGINATION (ding!) and how stories are made. We exercised our brains by brainstorming. We made up a story about Broccoli Cake in which there were many characters named Jacob. We laughed and we made our own version of Salad Pie that looked like this:
It looks pretty! And tasty? Here’s the recipe:
Thank you to Jeffrey Babbit for inviting me to Dorr, and to Lexi for her help at the event.
Dandelion Nights
Thank you to Eric R. Tucker and the Plainsongs team for including “Dandelion Nights” in this beautiful summer issue.
Library Visit
You are invited! This Thursday at Dorr Township Library for a presentation on Imagination, and a reading of Salad Pie.
We Sit in Restaurants
The Broadkill Review has published “We Sit in Restaurants” in their summer issue. Thank you, Stephen Scott Whitaker and the other editors for selecting this one.
Read it here:
How to Tell a Love Story
Thank you, X-R-A-Y, for publishing “How to Tell a Love Story. ” Special thanks to Jennifer Greidus, Claire Hoppel, and Crow Norlander for selecting this one, and working on it with me.
Small Spaces
Thanks to Isabelle King & Spencer Arnold for selecting my poem “Small Spaces” for inclusion in Volume 42 of The Sandy River Review. I love this cover!
Ameliorate & Reverse Cancer
Two poems of mine are now up at About Place Journal in their May issue, Navigations: A Place for Peace. Thank you to Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and the team at About Place for selecting and presenting this work so beautifully.
It's Not a Competition, But I Compare Our Knees
Thanks to Amani Hope for selecting my flash nonfiction as a finalist in Mortal’s 2021 essay prize. Read it here:
Transubstantiation (reprint) in Miramichi Flash
Thank you to Karen Shauber and everyone at Miramichi Flash for reprinting “Transubstantiation.”
Conjuring an Existence
Thank you to Martina McGowan and everyone at The Elevation Review for including my poem in their special issue for National Poetry Month.
Continuum of Omnivorous Behavior
The Dribble Drabble Review’s spring issue is up! My drabble (100-word story) is included. Thanks, Keith Hoerner, for selecting it.
Urban Geography
Thank you to Chelsea Voulgares at Lost Balloon for publishing this prose poetry of mine.
Mother
The Shore has published “Mother,” a poem about childhood, home, and the farmer’s market in Kitchener, Ontario. Thank you to Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, and John A. Nieves for selecting this poem.
Elegy 451 Handmade Book
Look at this gorgeous handmade book! Last semester, my daughter Ava took a bookmaking class. For one of the books, she chose to use the text of “Elegy 451” published in TERSE in May 2021.
The cover features a candle and dark textured fabric:
Then open, and whoah! Those endpapers!
And then the text…
Flash Reading
March 1, 2022, SoFloPoJo is hosting a flash reading at 7 PM Eastern. Over 20 authors are slated to read. I’ll be reading Grapes, a microfiction published last year. Register to attend by clicking the image below.
The Dollar is a General
Variety Pack, Issue 7, is up today, and “The Dollar is a General” is included on page 3. You can access it via issuu by clicking the cover below:
Thank you to Ben Brindise, Flash Fiction Editor, and to J. B. Stone, Editor-in-Chief, for including this tiny fiction in the lovely Variety Pack.
What to Read Next: A Mosaic of Literature Selections for All Ages
Up the Staircase Quarterly has published “What to Read Next: A Mosaic of Literature Selections for All Ages” which I hope draws connections between the adult literary work we know and love and the amazing contemporary children’s literature that is available today. Special thanks to April Michelle Bratten for accepting this review.
I really love a journal that combines literary work and art, and Up the Staircase not only has a featured artist, but a whole section featuring art and artists.
Rave
Landlocked has published “Rave” in their Issue 4.1, just released yesterday. Thank you L. Favicchia and the Landlocked team for including it.
The issue reads like a print journal via downloadable pdf, and there’s gorgeous art throughout. Scroll down for a sampling.
Today
Thank you to Anna Potter for including my poem “Today” in the Amphibian.
Her editor’s note in this inaugural issue explains the theme and the name of the journal: “Part of this cultural 'amphibious-ness' is a sense of longing for a home, real or imagined. A place of comfort where we belong. That is the essence of Hiraeth the theme for this issue.”