I’m more than pleased to see my poem “J & W Redemption, Highway 9, North Iowa,” along with a striking set of images by Edward Keating and work by luminaries like Bonnie Jo Campbell, Rodney Jones, Campbell McGrath, and David Wojahn, featured in The Southern Review‘s Americana issue.
Category: News
Memphis Closes Her Eyes
Black Lawrence Press is again featuring a poem from and short interview with one of the poets in their catalog for each day of National Poetry Month. My poem “Memphis Closes Her Eyes” is featured today.
Younger American Poets Reading
This May 5th I’ll be reading, along with wonderful poets Traci Brimhall and Joe Hall, in the Younger American Poets Readings Series at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines. Here’s their Facebook for more.
Big News
Big news here in the last few weeks: Counterpoint Press recently bought my memoir-in-fragments The Mountain, the Fathers for publication in spring of 2012. I’m delighted to be working with the folks at Counterpoint and to be joining a catalog that features writers such as Wendell Berry, Debra Marquart, Larry Woiwode, John Daniel, Gary Snyder, and many more.
Top Ten List
My top ten list, “Ten Very Fine Neo-Westerns,” is up at Dzanc Books. My poetry collection Killing the Murnion Dogs is forthcoming this August from Black Lawrence Press, which is a Dzanc imprint.
Poem up at Linebreak
My poem “Mission School, 1922: What She Remembered” is the featured poem this week at Linebreak, one of the most interesting online literary journals out there. From the website:
ORIGINAL POETRY, UPDATED WEEKLY
Linebreak is a weekly magazine with a bias for good poetry. We look for poems that we wish we had written, poems that take us somewhere we didn’t even know we wanted to go.
Two Weeks
My poem “Letter to My Son Concerning Our First Night of Birthing Class” is included in Linebreak’s fascinating new project, Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. You can buy the book (and listen to a reading of my poem!) via the link above.
Here’s a bit more about the project from the website:
Two Weeks is a new anthology of contemporary poetry, released exclusively in ebook format. The book was compiled, edited, designed, coded, and published in exactly 14 days.
Our purpose was to test how quickly a book of poetry could be crafted given new technologies, and to prove that neither speed nor technical limitations need diminish editorial standards or strip essential formatting. We hope you enjoy the result.
New poems from Bruce Bond, Geoffrey Brock, Dorianne Laux, Seth Abramson, T.R. Hummer, Oliver de la Paz, Joe Wilkins, Hannah Miet, Jazzy Danziger, Randall Mann, Jeffery Bahr, Matthew Henriksen, Mary Meriam, Amanda Auchter, Ernest Hilbert, Matthew Zapruder, Brian Spears, Rachel Richardson, Christina Stoddard, Kimberly Grey, David Roderick, Josh Kalscheur, Kerry Krouse, Benjamin Glass, Rose Hunter, Lauren Camp, Jon Tribble, Patricia Lockwood, and more …
Portfolio of Poems at Escape Into Life
The online arts magazine Escape Into Life has just published a portfolio of my poems, all of which will be in my upcoming book Killing the Murnion Dogs.
Two Poems at Mayday
I’m delighted to see my poems “Six Days’ Lament” and “Each Word Holds the World” up at Mayday, an online magazine of art, literature, and commentary.
Reading in Madison
The folks at Devil’s Lake have invited me and nonfiction writer Caryl Pagel to read at the launch party for their winter issue this Friday evening in Madison, Wisconsin. I’m very much looking forward to it!
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