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I’ve got two poems up in the latest issue of Terrain.org, a journal of the built and natural environments. Lots of very fine writers in this issue, including Pam Uschuk, Ben Quick, and Alison Hawthorne Deming.

Sweet, a beautifully-designed online magazine that describes itself as “a literary confection,” has two of my poems up in their most recent issue. Lots of great stuff at Sweet. Definitely a journal to keep an eye on.

My essay “Northern Pike” has just been accepted for publication at Harvard Review, the literary journal that calls the one-and-only Harvard University home!

Here’s a bit from their website:

In the decade and a half since it was launched, Harvard Review has emerged as a major American literary journal with an eclectic mix of contributors in a wide variety of genres and styles. Contributors to the journal include: Arthur Miller, Alice Hoffman, Seamus Heaney, Gore Vidal, David Mamet, Joyce Carol Oates, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Jim Crace, John Updike, and Thomas McGuane, as well as those who are making their literary debut. Recent selections have been anthologized in: Best American Poetry 2008, 2006, and 2002, Best American Short Stories 2005 and 2003, Best American Essays 2004 and 2003, Best American Mystery Stories 2006, Best New Poets 2008, Pushcart Prize Anthology 2004 and 2001.

The September/October 2009 issue of Orion, which includes a print and podcast version of my essay “Out West,” has just been released!

The Boston Globe calls Orion “America’s finest environmental magazine,” and I’m delighted to have another essay in such a fine venue.

I have two poems, “A Prayer” and “Then I Packed You Up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back,” appearing in the latest issue of the Southern Review, the esteemed and long-standing journal out of Louisiana State University.

I’ve been reading the Southern Review for the last year or so and have been incredibly impressed; from cover to cover each isssue is nothing less than stunning. If you’re looking for great new literature, this quarterly is well worth the money.

Just heard this morning that my poem “Notes from the Journey Westward,” which originally appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, was chosen for inclusionin Best New Poets 2009 by National Book Award-finalist Kim Addonizio.

My poem “How to Bring Down Rain” was featured in Best New Poets 2006 as well, and I’m delighted to have another poem chosen for the series!

I have three new poems, appearing alongside work from the likes of Sherman Alexie and Richard Robbins, in the current issue of New Madrid, the national literary journal out of Murray State University.

Just got word two of my poems, “Sunrise from a Bench on Esplanade” and “Fog,” will be in the next issue of Terrain. org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments.

You can find out more about the journal at http://www.terrain.org/.

Though he was a bit late, Walter James Wilkins entered the world this last Monday afternoon! He weighed 8 1/2 pounds, measured 21 inches long, and came out crying!

We’re home now, and Liz and I are tired as all get out, but we’ll get some pics up soon.

Update: Here are those first few pics!

My short story “Anniversary” is in the just-released summer 2009 issue of The Georgia Review, one of the hands-down best literary journals in the country! Here’s a little bit from their website:

Since its inception in 1947, The Georgia Review has grown steadily to its current position as one of America’s premier journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a rich gathering of stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual art orchestrated to invite and sustain repeated readings. Is it any wonder that over seventy percent of our readers add our issues to their permanent libraries? Or that The Review won the 1986 National Magazine Award in Fiction for stories by Mary Hood, Lee K. Abbott, and Gary Gildner, and the 2007 National Magazine Award in Essays for Michael Donohue’s “Russell and Mary.”

Writers featured in the Review range from Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners to the most deserving newer voices–including many who have never published before. Such well-known figures as Eudora Welty, John Edgar Wideman, Eavan Boland, William Stafford, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Philip Levine join emerging writers like Gordon Johnston and Brad Barkley in the quarterly that Magazines for Libraries calls “one of the best bargains in American publishing.”

According to the Utne Reader, “Amid the legion of look-alike mags, The Georgia Review asserts a unique identity: . . . substance in an age of surface.” And the London Times Literary Supplement reports: “The Georgia Review goes from strength to varied strength. Reading issues entire . . . brings home the fact that this journal sets the standard of literary, editorial, and graphic excellence. . . . With differing emphases and in different ways, The Georgia Review seems at times to talk to us all.”