My short story “Enough of Me” was recently chosen as the winner of the 2011 Obsidian Prize from High Desert Journal. The contest was judged by the great Gretel Ehrlich, and you can find the story in HDJ 13.
Category: News
Poem in Orion
My poem “The eye of the radio was red, and its round mouth was talking–” is up at Orion. Lots of other great stuff in this issue of Orion as well. As always!
Short Essay at Brevity
My essay “All the Forces at Work Here” is up in the latest issue of Brevity, the always fascinating online journal of concise literary nonfiction.
Review of Beautiful Country
Orion has just posted my review of Robert Wrigley’s stunning Beautiful Country.
Poem in The Southern Review
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.
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.
