Love Terns nominated for a Pushcart

The poem that has the weirdest history, "Love Terns", which I wrote for my wife, which got my wife and I flown to New York, London, Monte Carlo, and Spain, that got letter pressed with the help of my friend and artist Chris Harmon, and that got published by Blood Orange Review, has been nominated by that publication for a Pushcart Prize.

Such nice birds.

Three Friends Reading Anniversary

Here is the link (probably updated from an earlier blog) for my January 12th, 2009 reading at the Three Friends Coffee House in Portland, Oregon. You'll find a podcast of the reading, which also featured good friends Andy Budor and Doug Marx. I can't believe it's been a year already...

New poem in a new journal

Mike Burwell, founder of Cirque, a new journal out of Anchorage, Alaska, has published my prose poem, "Freezeout Creek", written while in residency in the Imnaha River Canyon at the Fishtrap cabin. The journal is dedicated to the voices and themes of the North Pacific Rim. The poem raps on a strange murderer who lives on the edge of Hell's Canyon.

Review of Galvin

My review of James Galvin's As Is (Copper Canyon Press) is online at Bookslut.

Poem at Elimae

"Medicine Bag" is up at elimae, with a little editing help by editor Cooper Renner and my wife.

Interview c/o Didi Menendez

As part of a project Orange & Sardines editor Didi Menendez, I've answered to a series of interview questions posted on her MiPOesias blog.

Two of my poems appears in the April 2009 edition of O&S here.

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.