Very Like A Whale

My savannah man is one of the first two poems in the inaugural issue of Scavella’s new journal, Tongues of the Ocean. I am very much honored to appear inaugurally with Ian Gregory Strachan. Check out his poems. Yikes – fiery stuff! Brief fiery stuff. In your face incisive burning-bones-and-no-flesh stuff. And taking — I had to go back and read each several times. Killer phrase among killer phrases: lunatic hosannas.

Go, Scavella!

Anti- Issue 3 is up and looking very good. Check it out. My poem the party is in it.

Anti- has also announced its Pushcart nominees. They include Poem by Jill Alexander Essbaum and The Preacher Man Saves Lily’s Soul (1914) by Nicolette Bethel. Go, guys!

My poem The Olive Farmer is up at Valparaiso Poetry Review. Another great issue – go check it out! Many thanks to editor, Edward Byrne.

My poem a poem for mother’s day is up at The Dirty Napkin.

This is a great publication, edited by Jeremy Ellis, and this fourth issue completes its first full volume. Check it out! And while you are there, check out its great submission system. Honestly, it’s the coolest thing — lets you painlessly submit, and then just as painlessly check on your submission. It even tells you whether your submission is Unread or Read. Has my vote for Most Painless Submission of the year.

is taking one of my poems for the upcoming September issue. What a great start to my weekend! This is one cool publication, managed by Jeremy Ellis and poetry-edited by Chris Goodrich — check it out.

I have five poems up at the Dead Mule; two poems up at Eclectica and two poems up at Soundzine.

Eclectica and Soundzine have their July issues up and the Dead Mule is running its summer progressive issue, so you get new poems almost daily. Check them all out — some very nice work indeed up there!

Many thanks to editors Helen Losse (Dead Mule); Jennifer Finstrom (Eclectica) and Charles Musser and Salli Shepherd (Soundzine).

Woohoo! I get to have a poem in the upcoming issue of Anti! Am I a child of fortune or what!

That’s the cool online journal edited by Steve Schroeder, with some rocking assistant editors, including Brent Goodman and Julie Carter. Thanks, guys!

My poem the jungle and the bungalow is up at Poetry Friends today.

Poetry Friends is a terrific poem-a-day site published by Susan Culver, who used to edit Lily (how could she stop?!). I was lucky enough once to have a poem in Lily and that poem felt, now I think about it, correct in the same way the jungle and the bungalow does — although I would not have thought to link them in that way before. Thanks, Susan! (And if you ever have the urge to edit a poetry manuscript, let me know and I’ll send you mine post-haste).

Go check out Poetry Friends and send in your own submissions!

Am I the luckiest person in cyberspace or what!? Autumn Sky Poetry, edited by Christine Klocek-Lim, is taking one of my poems for its upcoming June issue. ASP is one of my favorite online journals, so this has truly made my day. 

Woohoo! I get two pieces in the summer issue of Eclectica, coming up July 1.

I also get to go on vacation starting July 5. We are going to Colorado and Friesland this year.

If I ever dig myself out of all this work work work work..

Go check it out! I can’t believe I get to be in the same publication as Scavella and Julie, who both rock (although Julie rocks the most at the moment because she and I are editing a PFFA Anthology together). She is also the featured poet at Avatar, with a bunch of very cool poems and a whole interview to herself. Go see!

My piece is here.

Lovely lovely issue, Paula and Howard!

Frabjous! I’m going to have poems in The Dead Mule this summer! Helen Losse is the poetry editor over there, go check it out. (The poetry, of course, but also the Southern Legitimacy Statements…!)

My cup runneth over, it must be said.  

My poem our mother is up at Salt River Review. Another great issue from Jim Cervantes — thanks, Jim!

My Colombia poem is up at Dark Sky Magazine.