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.
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.”
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.
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.”
High Desert Journal #13 deservedly earns a kind review from John Palen this month at Newpages, and my story “Enough of Me” gets a mention:
“Raw delicacy” also describes Joe Wilkins’s intensely realized short story about a homeless woman in Montana who decides she’ll move beyond the self she had become. “Enough of Me” won High Desert Journal’s Obsidian Prize in Fiction, judged by Gretel Ehrlich.
Very pleased to see my poem “Anniversary” up in the Summer 2011 issue of The Adirondack Review.
Just got the new issue of Ecotone the other day, and with work by Mark Richard, Kevin Prufer, and Elizabeth Spires, as well as a striking series of photos by Magdalena Solé from the Mississippi Delta, a place near and dear to my heart, it’s really, really wonderful. I’m more than pleased my essay “Boys” is in there as well
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.
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!
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