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Heron Tree’ s annual print collection with my poetry included is now available.

Heron Tree' s annual print collection with my poetry included is now available.

I am gratified that GFT Press has selected my chapbook Finite to Fail as grand prize winner of its 2016 Chapbook Contest. Congratulations also to Jacquese Armstrong. 

I am gratified that GFT Press has selected my chapbook Finite to Fail as grand prize winner of its 2016 Chapbook Contest. Congratulations also to Jacquese Armstrong. 

My poem “ All Journeys Are Metaphors ” is available in the latest issue of Dual Coast Magazine

My poem " All Journeys Are Metaphors " is available in the latest issue of Dual Coast Magazine

Pinion: An Elegy by Claudia Emerson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Claudia Emerson’s untimely death is still a great loss to those who love great poetry. In this epistolary collection of dramatic monologues from 2002 , Emerson toldthe story of a southern family, hinting at the deeper issues of their relationships while engaging us deeply in their experiences. Her language is always both simple and luminescent: The second day, the creek argued with the rain, grew bolder before losing itself, overcoming the banks that had defined it. The older sister recalls defending a bird against the cruelty of her brother: I turned, grabbed a tobacco stick, and flayed your cap from your scalp, your scalp from your bone, aiming for the coiled quick of you when I failed, plunged my arms in the water instead and saved the thrush, hurled i back at the stunned sky… The younger sister is given a voice in prose to introduce the journals and letters of her (presumably deceased) older siblings as she vis...

Pinion: An Elegy by Claudia Emerson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Claudia Emerson's untimely death is still a great loss to those who love great poetry. In this epistolary collection of dramatic monologues from 2002 , Emerson toldthe story of a southern family, hinting at the deeper issues of their relationships while engaging us deeply in their experiences. Her language is always both simple and luminescent: The second day, the creek argued with the rain, grew bolder before losing itself, overcoming the banks that had defined it. The older sister recalls defending a bird against the cruelty of her brother: I turned, grabbed a tobacco stick, and flayed your cap from your scalp, your scalp from your bone, aiming for the coiled quick of you when I failed, plunged my arms in the water instead and saved the thrush, hurled i back at the stunned sky... The younger sister is given a voice in prose to introduce the journals and letters of her (presumably deceased) older siblings as she visits...

The Fall 2016 issue of The Summerset Review features my poem " Still Knowing "

The Fall 2016 issue of The Summerset Review features my poem “ Still Knowing “

The Hurricane Review will publish my poem "Formulary" in the next issue

The Hurricane Review will publish my poem “Formulary” in the next issue