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I am excited to announce that Kinds of Cool , an anthology of jazz poetry compiled and edited by Joe Maita of Jerry Jazz Musician is now available from Unsolicited Press . My poem, "The Band at Market Square, Middle of May" is featured in the collection. I hope this poem can bring a sense of warmth to its readers as these arctic blasts descend on us this January!

"Birdcall" is out in the Fall Issue of Backchannels . You can read the poem here .

I wrote this poem after reading about the disastrous flooding which struck me as something like an Old-Testament handing down of retribution leveled at the attendees of the 2023 "Burning Man" event. You can read the poem in Inter-View Magazine Issue 2, here , on page 21 (pdf page 23).

"Shattered Spell" is now out in the Oakland Review . You can read the poem here on page 27 (pdf page 14). I am not sure what the status of print issue availability is at this point, but I will post an update when I know more. P.S. you may remember a mention of this piece in my essay, "In Defense of Incarnadine."

"What Is Poetry?" is now published in the Fall-Winter 2024 Issue of Rat's Ass Review . You can read the poem here .

Five new poems are now published and available at A Thin Slice of Anxiety . You can read the selection here .

Skipjack Review Issue Three is now out, featuring two of my poems, "Notes on Twin Falls Trail, North Bend, WA," and "Apathy." You can read the issue here - my work appears on pages 26 and 27.

A mini-collection of eight poems, collectively titled "Overheard at the Prog-Snob Supper-Club" are now out in Issue Seven of #Ranger Magazine . A print edition of the issue should be out early 2025. These poems represent my first attempts at "erasure," a form I hope to explore more in the future. I use album reviews from the Prog Archives forum as found text - I'm grateful to the anonymous users whose writing I appropriated. You can read the poems here .

I am proud to announce that I have been nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology by Autumn Sky Poetry Daily for my poem, "Silicon Valley Ghazal." Thank you to Autumn Sky for supporting my writing in this way. You can read the other nominees from Autumn Sky here .

Issue 1 of Symphonies of Imagination in which my poem, "In the Rubble of Babel" is included, is now available. You can purchase a print or digital version of the issue here . This is an exciting new journal with a great vision behind it, and I am very happy to be involved in getting the first issue off the ground! A sample of the poem: In the Rubble of Babel The world’s been smashed to bits so many times— innumerable times—and every time we try to put it together again, we never can; we balance, with held breath, a piece atop a piece—the peace explodes, goes careening back to blueprints...

The final of my miniMag poems in now available in Issue 104. You can read it here , beginning on page 10. Thank you to miniMag for being a great home for so much of my recent work.

Now out in Millennial Pulp , Volume 4, available exclusively in print. You can purchase a copy here . Here is a taste of the poem: Re: Little Green Men The morning that the news breaks out and all the talking heads announce, they’re real, they’re here, they’re among us...