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Some journals want brief ones—fifty words and no more—and you begin to worry you will somehow be punished if you go over the limit. Others let you ramble on and on, a veritable laundry list of publications and schools attended. Over the years, I’ve tried a number of approaches…
In January 2013, I participated in The Next Big Thing! I can’t remember now who sponsored this poetry interview series. But I recall it was something along the lines of six degrees of separation meets a literary chain letter—…
In January 2012, my triptych poem series, “Distant Early Warnings,” was published online in PANK Magazine. According to the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, a triptych is “a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together.” …
It’s easy to find clarity and insight, to conjure up the best advice for oneself when looking back in time, isn’t it? What was once a mass of confusion, a morass of to-do lists and frenzied scramblings that seemed to be going nowhere…
Anchor & Plume Press of Baton Rouge, Louisiana published my long poem, Great Hunger, as their first-ever “pocket book” on St. Patrick’s Day 2016. As part of the volume’s launch, I answered a few questions for Anchor & Plume editor, Amanda Mays. Below is an excerpt of our conversation….
When I went to graduate school at SUNY/Binghamton in the early 1990s, my major was English and Creative Writing. My creative writing concentration at the time was fiction—not the poetry I have been writing for the past fifteen years…
