In the past year I’ve been fortunate to place some of my poems in some wonderful magazines, and I want to thank the editors of these journals for caring about these poems.
First, the beautiful Water~Stone Review selected two poems from my new manuscript, The Saint of Everything, for their most current issue: “The Saint of Everything Says No to the Dreamland Tree,” and “There’s Nothing Wrong.” One of their editors also asked me to contribute some responses to questions about my work, and these poems, for their website publication, which will be posted soon.
Midway Journal, that cool online magazine, chose “Burchfield in the Moonlight,” and “Tiny Homage to Cornell,” and “Young Wolves, “which also showed up on Facebook with some great comments.
Clackamas Literary Review published the poem, “Tenderness,” also part of my new manuscript, and a poem that was hard to write, about the end of an important friendship.
American Literary Review’s editors chose three poems from my new manuscript: “The Thief” — lead poem in the book, “Garage,” and “Two Stones.” My thanks to them.
Cimarron Review selected “The Saint of Abandoned Nurseries,” another of the Saint poems from the book. Newest, in fact, just got my copies two days ago,
Tin House editors selected “The Heartland, Where the Secrets Are” (title taken, with appreciation, from a sentence in a Lee Child mystery) and “Animals Above Me,” written recently and read for the first time to a beautiful crowd at The Dubliners in St. Paul. The theme of this issue of Tin House is Poison(gorgeous intense cover art by Pablo Geraldo Camacho) and I thank poetry editor and wonderful writer of poems and prose, Camille Dungy, for caring about my work.
“Animals Above Me” was also selected by poets.org and I am excited for it to join my other poem they chose, about tigers, from Willow Room, Green Door, several years ago. I keep telling my brilliant students to consider animals as key to some of the things they must write, and I laugh now to see animals carried me again into some great places.
Last, in honor of my website designer, and her quietly wonderful tattoo, so it goes, from Vonnegut, I was asked by the So it Goes Literary Journal for three of my poems for their next issue, Thanks to all of you who take the time to read this update. Writing is often a solitary mystery, and I know how busy writers are, and readers, so I thank you in advance if you take the time to find some of these poems I’ve created.