Thursday, October 31, 2024

10/31: What Is in John's Basement? - Book and Online Halloween Event

Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, on Halloween, I'll have the privilege of reading with a bunch of fine writers during the online book launch for What Is in John's Basement? (published by Eyepublishewe) So much gratitude to Dane Ince for spearheading this project and for including my poem, "Answered by What It Is."
 
Other contributors include Ron Whitehead, Frogg Corpse, John Angell Grant, K.R. Morrison, Dane Ince, Bryan Franco, Deborah C. Segal, Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto, Mark States, Sophia Falco, Jeff Cottrill, Michael Sindler, Antoinette Vella Payne, Jonathan S. Baker, Merilee Johnson, Tyler Frederick, Gary Huskisson, Eddy Foreman, Darrell Parry, Clive Oseman, Fin Hall, Jon Wesick, Phynne~Belle,and hil hoover.
 
For more info on this event, click here.

Watch this event on Zoom.

To purchase a copy of the book, click here.


 

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Recently published in Shabdaguchha, Ohio Bards, and CAW: Poetry by a Murder of Writers

I am happy to have received copies of these three new books in which poems of mine appear!

Shabdaguchha/শব্দগুচ্ছ (26th Anniversary Issue), edited by Hassanal Abdullah [Shabdaguchha Press].

  • features my poems "Where Would the Moment Be?" and "What If This Is the Last Poem I Ever Write and It's Not Finished?" alongside work by poets from seventeen countries including Bengt O Björklund, William Heyen, Hassanal Abdullah, George Wallace, and more.


CAW - Poetry by a Murder of Writers, edited by Stasha Strange and Hyacinthe L. Raven [Ix Studios].

  • features my poems "Cause and Effect," "Cause Célèbre," and "Cause of Death" alongside work by S.A. Quinox, Christiane Knight, Stasha Strange, Michael Cunliffe, Tara Vanflower, Kaytee Thrun, Rachel M. Croce, Tara Shannon, D.L. White, Emma Lee, Lisa Taner, Rachael Ikins, and Hyacinthe L. Raven.


Ohio Bards: Poetry Anthology 2024, edited by James Paul Wagner [Local Gems Press].

  • features a revised version of my poem "Two Against Nature" alongside work by Jessica Weyer Bentley, Jeffrey Bowen, Rachel M. Croce, Christen Lee, A.M. Hayden, David Lee Garrison, Les Epstein, Sandra Feen, Joey Polisena, Stasha Strange, Cora McCann Liderbach, Diane Kendig, Carmel L. Morse, Bill Reyer, K. Weber, Georgia Reash, Cat Russell, Mary A. Turzillo, Geoffrey A. Landis, and more.