By some sweet coincidence, Mamie and I are in the same issue of Four Way Review.
You can read/listen to my two poems "Letter in Exchange For" and "Apology to the Narrow Moment" here and to Mamie's "Letter to Yasha in my Third Period AP Lang Class Morning after that Girl She Likes Blocked Her on Instagram" here.
I'm insanely happy to be in her company. And with deep thanks to poetry editor Ross White and the whole team at Four Way--this is a gorgeous issue all around.
From left to right: Sullivan Anlyan, Emma Bolden, and Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams
My poem, "In the Painter's House," accompanies the art of Sullivan Anlyan in the inaugural issue of the beautiful new literary magazine out of the University of Miami, Sinking City! You can read the poem and see Sully's beautiful painting here. We are keeping the loveliest company in this issue, including that of Emma Bolden who contributes "Under the Threat of Eden."
With many thanks to the Editors, and to Chantel Acevedo, in particular. Honored to be included in this beautiful issue.
with writer Mamie Morgan in 2014.
I have two poems, "Apology to the Narrow Moment" & "Letter in Exchange For," coming out in the next issue of the beautiful Four Way Review. My friend for twelve years, Mamie Morgan, has work in there, too.
My poem, "Letter to Severn, No. 1," an ekphrastic response to Severn Eaton's painting "Fathom," is now hanging alongside its inspiration at The Refinery Co-Op run by the Asheville Area Arts Council.
Severn Eaton is an Asheville-based artist whose work, whether through sculpture, painting, outdoor sound environments, or construction, examines and questions the divisions and barriers we create and rebuild in our daily lives and global interactions. You can read more about the artist and see more work, here.
I'm thrilled to announce that Sullivan Elaine Anlyan & I are making our ekphrastic debut together as a team in the inaugural issue of the University of Miami's journal Sinking City. My poem "In the Painter's House" will be alongside Sully's painting "Moonage Daydream."
With endless thanks to the irreplaceable Chantel Acevedo.
Come see me on opening night, Thursday, July 28th, at 6:30pm at the Cameron Art Museum, where I’ll be included in the next iteration of the wildly beautiful 'She Tells a Story' exhibit. In case you've missed it, this is an ekphrastic show in which writers respond to visual art with short, literary pieces that complicate or extend interpretation. Some of my best friends--Chrissy Hennessey, Kathleen Jones, and Katie O'Reilly--and I will be adding our voices to a collection that already features powerhouses Nina DeGramont, May-lee Chai, Emily Smith, Wendy Brenner, and others. Some of the visual art, too, comes from our own, with work, for instance, by Minnie Evans and Abby Spangel Perry. Thanks to Holly Tripman for coordinating.
Very happy to have had two poems, 'Shelter' and 'No Easy Stars,' accepted by MemoryHouse Magazine.
Deeply honored to have three new poems up at the illustrious Toad.
You can read the poems here.
Thanks to storySouth for nominating "Choreography for Brief Flight" for a Best of the Net Award. You can visit my poem over here.
A friend asked me to give him something I'd written down. I said, Do I have to write something new, or can it be some words from a while back? My friend just shrugged and was very easy and patient about it. When I hunted through all my scraps of paper, though, nothing seemed right. And then I wrote down a new thing, which had in it ballet and Mary, the circus elephant who was tragically hung in Tennessee, and the baffling psychology of infidelity.
You can read my new thing, "Choreography for Brief Flight," over here but do wander around. There are stunners in this issue of storySouth.
I was riffing a little earlier off of one of Steinbeck's Letters to Pascal "Pat" Covici, the one included in East of Eden (although The Journal of a Novel is the collection of those letters). Sometimes I think that the best way to write--and maybe, for me, the only way--is in response to someone's request for it. But there's a lot of hubris in that. Who can ever expect to be asked? But I was this time. Thank you, Terry.
One of Steinbeck's letters to his friend and editor, Pat.
Contributor copies of Carolina Quarterly. Thank you to Matt Hoffman, Lee Norton, and the rest of the team for publishing me. The other pieces in here are beautiful, as is the cover, and you can get yourself a copy here.
The Carolina Quarterly Volume 63.3
