Some December Photos

December 8th:

December 14th:

Yes, I took a selfie...

...wearing antlers...

I'm so excited for Christmas!

Tomorrow (Des Moines)

This is happening tomorrow night.

Poems in the New Issue of Anthem Journal

It looks like the new issue of Anthem Journal is out now. The theme of the fall issue is "Day of the Dead." You can read my poems here and here.

Anthem Journal published two of my poems in their summer issue. The theme of the issue was "Heat." You can read those poems here and here.

Snooow

I am so excited for Thanksgiving. Hoping to sleep a lot. Or more than usual...

Reading in Des Moines later this month.

It's sweater dress season.

11/11/14

Rush, rush.

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.