Poem in Ping Pong & Dressing Room Poetry Journal at AWP

I have a poem in the newest edition of Ping Pong. You can order copies here. The issue is awesome!

Dressing Room Poetry Journal will be at the AWP Bookfair in 2015! Visit Dressing Room at table 854.

Congrats to Dressing Room contributor Michael Patrick Collins! His book Psalmandala is now available from ELJ Publications. Order it here.

Here I am on Election Day. It was a warm day. Probably the last warm day we'll have for a really long time...

3 Poems Forthcoming in Lemon Hound & Oct. 18th Photos

I found out this morning I had three poems taken by Lemon Hound. I'll let you know when they are out!

Here are some photos from Saturday.

Patrick Stephenson

Katrina Wollet

Brian Beatty

Ashley Cardona

Eliese Goldbach

Meg Johnson

Ria Misra, Ashley, Meg, Katrina, Patrick, Brock Petrie

P.S. Congrats to Dressing Room Poetry Journal contributor, Ha Kiet Chau, on the release of her chapbook, Woman Come Undone, out from Mouthfeel Press! You can order a copy here. 

"Stuff"

If you are looking for a library copy of Inappropriate Sleepover, the libraries where you can check one out/get it through interlibrary loan (that I know of) are the Iowa State University library (Parks Library), the Ames (Iowa) Public Library, and the Williamsburg (Iowa) Public Library. Of course, it can still be ordered from the press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.

This past week, the Octagon Center for the Arts started selling copies of Inappropriate Sleepover. It's cool to have copies of the book in such a lovely space.

Over a week ago, I found out that my second full length manuscript Butter Sad was a semi-finalist in the Press 53 competition. Butter Sad has been a finalist or semi-finalist five times now. I'm glad various presses are connecting with it.

On May 3rd, I will be reading at the Taproom Poetry Series in Lawrence, Kansas with the wonderful Jennifer L. Knox.

I'm reading in Minneapolis in less than two weeks.

Things have been so busy lately that I feel a little bit like this.

Book Review in Flyway

There is a new review of Inappropriate Sleepover that just came out in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. You can check it out here.

Minneapolis Reading (& Other Stuff...)

I will be reading in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 18th at Five Watt Coffee. I'm reading in the Espresso Yrself reading series which is curated by Katrina Wollet and Patrick Stephenson. (I actually read at their first event about two years ago.) I'm really excited for this reading. Eliese Goldbach will be there from Ohio, and Minneapolis writers Brian Beatty and Ashley Cardona will be reading as well.

I've been writing some new poems. (Slowly, but surely.) This week I had conferences with my students. (I have 96 students this semester.) My brother is getting married on September 27th. I'm getting settled at my new place. I took these pictures last Sunday.

Updates... Various...

About a week and a half ago, I found out Butter Sad (my second full length manuscript) made it to the next round in the Able Muse Book Award for Poetry contest, which is flattering.

One of the wonderful librarians at the Iowa State library (Parks Library) made this webpage with some of my poems/journal publications.

Things are busy...