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.