The Mountain and the Fathers is officially out in the world! You can grab your copy at Powell’s, The Country Bookshelf, Elliott Bay Book Company, Amazon, or your favorite independent bookstore!
Category: News
AWP Reading
Essay in Orion
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.
Two Poems in Pank 6
Couldn’t be happier to have two poems in this latest, beautifully-designed issue of Pank!
Upcoming Readings
I’ve got a few readings coming up this later winter and spring. Here are the details for the first few:
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
Story in the Latest Issue of Indiana Review
My story “Sam and Annie: A Kind of Love Story” is in the latest issue of Indiana Review, which also features wonderful work by two of my favorite writers, Michael McGriff and Traci Brimhall.
Four Poems and an Interview at Dahse
I’m very pleased to have four poems and an interview featured in the second issue of the new and lovely magazine of fashion and art, Dahse.
Bruised in The Sun
Poem at The Puritan
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 clearingHISTORY
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.
Review at Escape Into Life
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!





