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
News
New Poem at Contrary
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)
Killing the Murnion Dogs Playlist
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!
Poem at Slate
My poem “The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods” is up today at Slate!
Up in the Counterpoint Catalog!
Poem up at Shaking
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.
New Poem at Conte
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.”
First Book Interview at iO Poetry
The latest issue of the wonderful new online journal iO Poetry is up, and I’m interviewed therein about my upcoming first-book of poems, Killing the Murnion Dogs.
“Boys” up at Ecotone
Back Story to “Enough of Me”
High Desert Journal is up with a short essay of mine about the writing of my 2011 Obsidian Prize for Fiction-winning short story, “Enough of Me.”
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