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.
I just can’t say enough good things about the new online journal iO Poetry. This issue features striking new work by Marc Rahe and Natasha Kessler, among others, and I’m delighted to have two of my poems in such strong company. Also, in case you missed it, last August iO featured a first-book interview with me about my recently released collection Killing the Murnion Dogs.
Facebook pages are now up for both Killing the Murion Dogs and The Mountain and the Fathers. Click, and you can find advanced blurbs and links to selections from both books!
https://www.facebook.com/TheMountainandtheFathers
I have a long poem, “The Garage Sale Daze Meditations,” up in the latest Contrary. Really a wonderful issue all the way around. Here’s a bit more about the magazine:
On the Contrary
The first problem is the “Contrary” above the content. Why is it called Contrary, you might ask, when some of its content isn’t? We have a contemplation to confront this contradiction: we insist that all of our content is contrary. And, we insist, so is all of yours. Doesn’t it seem possible that all content is contrary, that there is no for, there is only against? Why else does the word contrary, so openly against something, have no antonym? What opposes contrary? Nothing. That which opposes contrary, by opposing, becomes contrary.
Besides, we tend to think contrarily, and we hope our magazine expresses contrarities that otherwise might go unexpressed: writings and images that confront entities, voids, and the edges of their own categories. As for that poetic nothing, the “Journal of Unpopular Discontent,” we conceal our dreams in the double negative, hoping to become a journal of popular content. (Spring 2003)
The official Killing the Murnion Dogs playlist (featuring, among others, Johnny Cash, Uncle Tupelo, and Nina Simone) is up today at Largehearted Boy. You can even stream the tunes at Spotify!
My poem “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods” is up today at Slate!
My poem “Letter to My Unborn Son Concerning the Peculiarities of Faith” is up at Shaking. Here’s a bit more about the magazine from their website:
Shaking Magazine publishes poetry and prose that moves, that rests on the fault lines of literature, and stirs our understanding of human experience.
The latest issue of Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing is up, and it includes, along with great new work by Brandon Courtney and Keith Montesano, my poem “Colic.”
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