 NEWS
My new manuscript, "Mysteries in a World that Thinks There Are None," has been named a finalist or semifinalist this year for the Akron Poetry Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books, and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry's Open Competition. Two recent reviews of American Amen: Pirene's Fountain and Gently Read Literature. Thank you, gentlemen, for writing such wonderful reviews! Three of my poems have been awarded a $1,000 2010 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize! Three of my poems have been named runner-up in the 2010 Laureate Prize from The National Poetry Review. American Amen (winner of the 2009 Orphic Prize in Poetry) is out now from Dream Horse Press. You can order there, at www.Amazon.com, or at Barnes and Noble (www.BN.com). Or if you'd like, ORDER A SIGNED, DISCOUNTED COPY DIRECTLY FROM ME HERE! My three poems ("Rio, WI," "Everytime I Teach Triggering Town," and "While Reading Hawthorne") in the new issue of Minnetonka Review were awarded the 2010 Editor's Prize for Poetry. Thank you, guys! The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry was the #2 poetry best-seller on SPD's Best-seller list in May 2010 and #11 in July 2010! I have poems, essay, and reviews forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, Barn Owl Review, Burnside Review, Black Tongue Review, Tusculum Review, HTMLGIANT, Copper Nickel, and others. Recent poems and essays are in current issues of Bellingham Review, Pebble Lake Review, Vinyl Poetry, Fifth Wednesday and several others. |
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