New poems at 42opus and in Hayden's Ferry Review

My poem "Shotpouch Road" is featured in Issue 45 of Hayden's Ferry Review (whose cover by Hong Hao is featured here) and "Cover of a Country Song" is online at 42opus.

Next I'll be working on a review of Graham Foust's A Mouth in California, out now from Flood Editions.

Pushcart nominations!

Tom Holmes at Redactions has nominated my poem "Sometimes I See My Country" for a Pushcart Prize.

Likewise, Didi Menendez at Oranges & Sardines has nominated my poem "When this Rose Parade Burns" for the anthology as well.

Five New Poems in Copper Nickel

Five of my poems--three from my soon-to-be released first book, The Imagined Field, and two errant prose poems--are in Copper Nickel, issue 12, available from the University of Colorado Denver.

Mountain Lake story in The Oregonian

Even though I live in Kentucky now, I've published my last piece (for now) for the O, a piece on the lovely mountain lakes of the Oregon Cascades. You can view the story at The Oregonian's online blog here.

New poem in Rio Grande Review

My poem "Anchoring"--from my upcoming book The Imagined Field--is in the Spring edition of Rio Grande Review (though it just showed up in mailbox a week or so back).

New poems, new book!

At last, my manuscript has been accepted for publication: The Imagined Field will be published by Paper Kite Press in 2010. Stay tuned, as they say.

The closing piece of my long poem White River Junction (part of The Imagined Field) is online now at Swink.

And several short, odd poems are up on the newest edition of diode.

Long poem at Big Bridge

A long poem I wrote, "America, Take This Cup From Me", is included in Halvard Johnson's "War Papers 2009" at Big Bridge. With apologies to Vallejo, of course.