Reviews & Reviews in Redactions

Two reviews in issue 13 of Redactions, out now in print.

One, my review of Sherman Bitsui's Copper Canyon release, Flood Song.

The other, a review by editor Tom Holmes of my own book, The Imagined Field.

Review of Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom"

You can read my review online at the LEO Weekly.

New Review at the LEO Weekly

here.

Two new poems in MiPoesias

Two poems I worked on at the Vermont Studio Center this past summer, "Home, having lost" and "This Little Room", are online in the November issue of MiPOesias. Thanks are due to Didi Menendez for publishing them, and Marilyn Hacker for conferencing with me and critiquing these two poems in Vermont. You can preview the entire issue here, and buy a copy here.

Review of The Imagined Field on the Hayden's Ferry Review blog

Bryan Tso Jones reviewed my first book of poems here. Big thanks to Zack Andersen for making it happen--and to Bryan, for the close reading. One of the poems from the book, "Shotpouch Road", appeared in Issue 46 of Hayden's Ferry Review.

New poems at Front Porch Journal

Three new poems are now up at Front Porch Journal. Thanks to the editors for announcing me as an "acclaimed writer." I like the sound of it, anyway.

Review of Ben Mirov's "Ghost Machine"

Bookslut just posted their July edition with my review of Ghost Machine, which won Ben Mirov the Caketrain Chapbook Competition for 2009.