Join us tomorrow night at Downbound Books in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Northside neighborhood, for the Inkwell Open Poetry Mic ft Ben Kline from 7-9PM. I’ll be reading some favorites and new work, as well as a few pieces from Sagittarius A*!
New Poems and News
The past week saw a few poems debut.
First, Bending Genres Journal published three poems on which I collaborated with Tyler French, a poet and all-around cool guy from DC. The poems “Choke,” “Sir, Yes Sir” and “Serenade” came from our explorations of all the modern terms and paradigms gay men are employing in the digital age. Tyler also originates from southern Ohio and we’re going to explore that in some future collaborative work.
Updating/Reflecting
I took a few minutes to reorganize the Publications page. I divided it by years and added some non-writing things to it, such as my appearance on USA Today’s “I Am an American” series.
One thing that struck me – when I resumed writing seriously in 2012, I had no idea where it would take me. Continue reading “Updating/Reflecting”
2019 in review
Wow. I was updating my publications page and discovered that I published 21 poems and one short story in 2019! That’s my best year yet. Not bad for someone who stopped trying to publish for 11 years (2001-2012.)
2019 was a productive year too: I finished and found a publisher for Sagittarius A*, then completely revamped Twang after spending a couple hundred dollars to submit it to Continue reading “2019 in review”
2 New Poems from TWANG
Two new poems from Twang debut at Queen Mob’s Teahouse today. They are newer works, written last summer, and added to Twang as I continue to fine tune the manuscript.
Click here to find “A Pile” and Saved Message #3.”
Submit your work to Flypaper Lit!
You may not know I’m on the poetry reading team at Flypaper Lit. A cool journal with Ohio ties, we are open for submissions now through the end of February.
So gather your best poems and short fictions. Your most pristine lines and revelatory tales. Your weird ideas in word form. Send them to us.
Anthologized
My poem “Reading Is Fundamental” has been anthologized by Ghost City Press in their new digital collection My Loves.
It remains my favorite poem I’ve ever written. I managed to finish it at a reading in December without sobbing, which was a first!
