My essay “Eleven Kinds of Sky,” featured alongside striking photographs by Lisa M. Hamilton, is in the January/February issue of Orion. As always, lots of good stuff in this issue, including the first installment of Luis Alberto Urrea’s “Wastelander” column and a short story by Pam Houston.

Couldn’t be happier to have two poems in this latest, beautifully-designed issue of Pank!

Wednesday, February 8th

Briar Cliff University Writers Series

Stark Student Center, Assisi Room

Sioux City, IA

7:00 pm

Thursday, March 1st

Black Lawrence Press/Devil’s Lake Reading

Salud Tequila Lounge

Chicago, IL

7:30 pm

Tuesday, March 13th

Grand Valley State University Writers Series

2215/16 Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus

Allendale, MI

7:30 pm

I have a poem, “Encomium, from the Front Porch,” in the fall 2001 issue of the Canadian literary journal The Puritan. Here’s a bit more about the magazine from their website:

These are of us, they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day’s procession heading, we the route for travel clearing

HISTORY

The Puritan is an online, quarterly publication based in Toronto, Ontario committed to publishing the best in new fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, and reviews.

The Puritan seeks, above all, a pioneering literature. Submissions may push toward the symbolic frontier, challenging limitations and forging into previously unexplored aesthetic territory. But they may also revisit and revitalize traditional forms. We seek work wherever it lands on the conceptual spectrum, so long as it is original, intelligent, and engaging.

Escape Into Life has just posted a lovely review of Killing the Murnion Dogs. Really, about as good a read as you could hope for!

Jazzed to have a long poem, “Eight Letters of Explanation, Acknowledgement, & Apology on the Occasion of My Son’s First Birthday,” in the latest issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. Lots of great stuff in this issue, including new work by Peter Ho Davies, Tod Boss, and Elizabeth Alexander.

Along with really wonderful work by Bruce Bond, Brittaney Cavallero, and Eric Pankey, I have a new poem, “Letter to My Son Concerning Quickening,” in the latest issue of the venerable Beloit Poetry Journal.