My poem "Acre" now appears in Tabula Rasa Review Issue 3, which you can view or download digitally at the link in the comments, or buy a print edition for just $14. The editors took a lot of care to revise this one with me a couple of times to really tighten it up. I appreciated the involved and invested process, so consider sending your work too! The poem also appears in my book Cistern Latitudes, and I have a few signed copies left of that one. Thanks for reading!
Some Recent Poetry Publications...
I spent some time over the winter sending out new poems to magazine and I got lucky with a handful of places that I really admire. Some are publications where I’ve appeared before and some are new. It’s been a nice mix and it felt really encouraging to have a strong response after taking a very long time off from sending out poetry submissions. And all these poems are slated to appear in either my new book Cistern Latitudes (from Roadside Press) or my next one coming out later in 2024, titled Nassau.
Nixes Mate Review selected “Baily’s Hardware” for their print Summer/Fall 2023 Issue. (Nassau)
Trampoline selected “Pioneer” for their January 2024 Issue 21 release. (Cistern Latitudes)
Cajun Mutt Review selected “Johnny ‘89” for their Night Owl Narrative #1 Issue. (Nassau)
Chiron Review selected “Hand Me Downs” for their Winter 2024 Issue. (Nassau)
Tabula Rasa Review selected “Acre” for their spring/summer 2024 issue. (Cistern Latitudes)
San Pedro River Review selected “Village Video” and “Marathon” for their recent issue (one from each)
Misfit Magazine selected “Cherry Dip” for their summer 2024 issue. (Nassau)
Book of Matches selected “Concession” for their summer 2024 issue. (Nassau)
My thanks to all the editors who chose to include my work alongside that of so many fantastic writers and artists. I deeply appreciate it.
"Pastoral" and the Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Prize
My poem “Pastoral” placed in the Honorable Mentions for the Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Prize for 2024, alongside a bunch of great international poets as well as some local friends. The poem is set in upstate New York and looks at the ephemeral and distinct divisions between our human world and the natural one right on the other side of the fence line, late in the evening, when the wilderness and all it contains feels so much closer, larger, and more wonderous.
The poem also appears in my book Cistern Latitudes from Roadside Press, and will be released in April 2024. You can order copies from Roadside Press or look around at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. I’ll also have a limited number of signed copies.
My thanks to the judges for selecting the poem, and to Roadside Press for publishing this poetry collection.
Roadside Press to Publish Cistern Latitudes
Roadside Press and I are working on my next full-length poetry collection titled Cistern Latitudes, with a publication date slated for late spring 2024. The sibling publishing wing of Roadside Press, called Gutter Snob Books, previously published my poetry chapbook Proper Etiquette in the Slaughterhouse Line in 2022, and I couldn’t have been happier with how that one turned out, so I’m pretty excited. Roadside Press is just as dedicated to supporting their authors and putting out beautifully designed books, so I know this new book is in good hands.
Cistern Latitudes will contain 60 new poems, or as I called them, 60 small descents into moments and places that once witnessed tectonic shifts in destiny that are now as silent and still as subterranean pools of water, clear and dark and carrying the truth that life and the world may have lost its way, that tragedy may linger in the corners of our past, but there are still latitudes and geographies out there that harbor safe, calm, and magical futures if we look for them.
I’ll post more details when the book becomes available, but for the moment, here is a sample poem that will appear in the collection. Thank you for reading!
