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January 24, 2017
Literature Today will publish my poem “Echoes in Green” in an upcoming issue.
Literature Today will publish my poem “Echoes in Green” in an upcoming issue.
January 21, 2017
Claudia Emerson’s “Impossible Bottle” – Slipping into Time Itself
Impossible Bottle: Poems by Claudia Emerson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
What do you do when you discover you have a terminal cancer, much like family and friends who grew up where you did? If you are Claudia Emerson, between chemo treatments and doctor visits and trying to live your life for as long and as well as possible, you also write a beautiful (and as it turned out final) collection of poetry.
Emerson’s “Impossible Bottle” is that glass container within which a sailboat was placed as she watched when a child. It is also the container of her life, her body, her mind, her soul. And it is the bottle that is this book and her other poems wherein she tries to place a miniature that is true to all she was and all she lived.
Claudia Emerson had so much more to contribute and so many more poems to write before she dies. Her death came much too soon. She left behind these words and images, for which we are grateful. And their echoes haunt us now that Claudia Emerson has slipped away into time itself:
“Only/they can tell you, when you/return to them, what you can live without, what/regenerates, and on hearing it,/you feel a lightening, the way a snake must/on slipping through its discarded/mouth into another year, or, knowing nothing/of a year, into time itself.”
January 17, 2017
The Indianola Review will publish my poem “Anticipating Blindness” in an upcoming issue.
The Indianola Review will publish my poem “Anticipating Blindness” in an upcoming issue.
January 15, 2017
Perhaps Allan Peterson’s most accessible collection
Other Than They Seem by Allan Peterson
Perhaps Allan Peterson’s most accessible collection, these short poems brushstroke homely images into thoughtful eloquence. Musing on aging and the body, Peterson thinks “of making English out of birdsong” as natural images interplay with daily tasks and the poet tries out his meanings. Mortality lives beside the innocence of the Other as a deer eats his ivy and returns his stare with no guilt. Three horses struck by lightning lie dead, “their eyes open/focused behind us on a long thought.”
Peterson’s “long thoughts” here merit daily rereading. Living with this book is like having a thoughtful, observant friend who always finds just the right thing to say as he looks out his window at our world. .
January 13, 2017
The Voices Project will publish my poem”War of Headlines” in November 2017
The Voices Project will publish my poem”War of Headlines” in November 2017
January 11, 2017
My poem “She Asks Me Inside” is available in Dark Matter Issue #10
My poem “She Asks Me Inside” is available in Dark Matter Issue #10
January 6, 2017
Preorder my prize-winning chapbook Finite to Fail to be published this February.
Preorder my prize-winning chapbook Finite to Fail to be published this February.
Check out my interview regrading my prize-winning chapbook at GFT Press.
Check out my interview regrading my prize-winning chapbook at GFT Press.
January 5, 2017
The Wayfarer has accepted my poem “An Answer in Passage” for future publication.
The Wayfarer has accepted my poem “An Answer in Passage” for future publication.
January 1, 2017
58 Poems accepted and 1 chapbook awarded a Grand Prize in 2016
My deepest gratitude to the editors of the 32 journals who accepted my poetry in 2016 and to GFT Press for awarding my chapbook Finite to Fail its Grand Prize for publication early in 2017.
“Finite to Fail: Poems after Dickinson” 2016 GFT Press Chapbook Contest Grand Prize Winner
“A Last Bend in the Huron River” Red Earth Review July 2016
“Vessel” Red Earth Review July 2016
“Sugaring” Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
“Whittling Emptiness” Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
“Halloween” The Write Place at the Write Time
“Harrowing Hallows’ Evening” The Write Place at the Write Time
“Cutting Deeper” The Yellow Chair Review
“Blackberry Reduction-3” Three Line Poetry
“River and Father” Gravel
“The Darkening Horizon” Folia
“Becoming” GFT Press
“Song of the Sixth Extinction” GFT Press
“The Stone Bird in Exile” GFT Press
“After Bashō” Heron Tree
“Emily’s Ghost Machine” Route 7 Review
“Become a Dark Current” Touch: The Journal of Healing
“Becoming Stage Three” Touch: The Journal of Healing
“The Desert Rains” Heart & Mind Zine
“Crafting the Void” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
“Whitman Deconstructed” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
“Wrestling Proteus on the Beach,” Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
“Winter Moon” Poetry Quarterly Spring 2016
“Paleontology” Rust + Moth
“Cloud Chamber” in Shabda Press Spring 2017 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands
“Alamogordo – July 16, 1945” in Shabda Press Winter 2016 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands
“Nuclear Winter” in Shabda Press Winter 2016 anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands
“Tanka: In a streak of blue” Tanka Journal
“The Nostalgia of Frisbees” Literature Today (Vol 5)
“Psalms in Pieces” december
“The carillon has voices” Three Line Poetry
“All Journeys are Metaphors” Dual Coast Magazine
“What is Still” Heron Tree
“Still Knowing” The Summerset Review
“Urbanity” Rust + Moth
“A Lark is Hunger in the Blood” Jazz Cigarette
“Pileated” Inwood Indiana Magazine
“Offertory” online GFT Press Ground Fresh Thursday series
“Murmuration” Aji Magazine Fall 2016
“Tradition” 50 Haikus
“Prayer of Vapor” Red Savina Review
“Dark Fathers” Arlington Literary Journal
“Defiled by Exile” Arlington Literary Journal
“The Exile is Orphaned” Arlington Literary Journal
“A last fragile cloud of summer” Three Line Poetry
“Formulary” Hurricane Review
“Absolute Zero” “Ceremony without Tea” “The Orphaned Shore” “She the Garden” Vine Leaves Literary Journal #19
“Infinity of Nothing” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry
“Four Measure Rest” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry
“Ways of Seeing” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry
“Submission” Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry
“Of Bone and Limestone” Aji Magazine Spring 2017
“Past All Aging” Aji Magazine Spring 2017
“All Journeys Are Metaphors” – Into the Void: Luminous Echoes: A Poetry Anthology (Print)
“Samuel Clemens’ Cat” – Into the Void: Into the Void: Luminous Echoes: A Poetry Anthology (Print)
“She Asks Me Inside” Dark Matter Journal
