My poem “Reckoning” is up at Verse Daily!
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Notes from the Journey Westward
My second full-length collection, Notes from the Journey Westward, winner of the 17th Annual White Pine Poetry Prize, is officially for sale at the White Pine Press website. Really humbling to be in a catalog that includes James Wright, Robert Bly, Marjorie Agosin, David St. John, and so many other essential poets and writers.
Absence
Another Review for Killing the Murnion Dogs
A great review in the Billings Gazette this week for Killing the Murnion Dogs!
Traveling
Had a wonderful time last week at the Montana Festival of the Book–where The Mountain and the Fathers sold out and was nominated for the Montana Book Award!–and this coming week I’m off to read at Augustana College, Elk River Books, and the High Plains Book Fest.
It’s Here!
Just got my copies of my second full-length collection of poems, Notes from the Journey Westward. You can order yours here: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781935210368-0. And you can read the title poem, as well as “Hayrake,” another poem in the collection here: http://www.bpj.org/index/W.html#Wilkins Joe.
Best American Nonrequired Reading
Some unexpected good news: My story “Sam and Annie: A Kind of Love Story,” from the Winter 2011 issue of Indiana Review, earned a notable mention in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012.
Review up at Brevity
A very fine review of The Mountain and the Fathers on the Brevity blog!
Interview and Excerpt from The Mountain and the Fathers
The inaugural issue of Squalorly features a wide-ranging interview with me, as well as an excerpt from The Mountain and the Fathers.
Another Review
Another fine review for Killing the Murnion Dogs in the venerable Pleiades Review of Books! Near the end of the review, essayist and poet Nick Ripatrazone writes:
“Spiritual” and “A Prayer” tread new ground in the book’s final pages, and these lines feel both appropriate to the book as a whole and the particular, engaging aesthetic cultivated throughout: “But even in this joy I know enough / of pain and shame to say that’s all wrong: No one / deserves this world.”
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