The Well-ReadHead

I have joined Soundzine as an in-house reader beginning with its upcoming issue. Spoken word is important to me, and this ezine is the finest of its kind.

Web will appear in Oak Bend Review, September/October.

Gardening in Dixie, Quilt Story and Marmee are appearing in the current issue of The Clapboard House.Link here to The Clapboard House

Skydiver is currently appearing in Flutter, August/September.
Link to Flutter here

Weeds will appear in Up the Staircase, Fall edition.

My first publication appeared in The Lyric Magazine, Holy Grail for traditional poets, when I was practically a kid. I had set for myself the goal of appearing there again, though I no longer write in form.

I received a call from The Lyric's editor, Jane Mellichamp Milliken, who has accepted The Child Who Can Believe for an upcoming issue. The Lyric published Emily Dickinson, Walter de la Mare, Robert Hillyer, and a cast of thousands in its heydey, so The Child finds herself in excellent company.

Dragonflies dart will appear in the Winter edition of ocean diamond.

Two of my haiku will appear in the Winter edition of Cherry Blossom Review.

Buyer's Remorse and This Apple Earth will appear in the Autumn edition of ken*again.

Two poems, The Pugilist and Vow, are currently appearing in the Summer, 2008 edition of The Linnet's Wings, a publication out of Drumod in County Leitrim,  Ireland, and I am also reading those poems online. Link: The Linnet's Wings

Two poems, The Glassmaker's Son and With Child appear in the Summer edition of Soundzine. Link here:  Link: Soundzine

The two previously mentioned poems on Soundzineearned a favourable mention on BOOKS INQ: THE EPILOGUE, blog of Frank Wilson, the esteemed Books Editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who recently retired. I have added his blog to my "Blessed" list at the left menu.

I also read those two poems on the Summer edition of Soundzine, as well as several poems written by other poets.

I have 5 poems currently appearing in the 8th Anniversary Issue of ken*again, the literary magazine, including Way of the Raven, Why I never visit, Snow Day, Cherry-on-Top, and Divination. Link here:  Link: ken*again

Praisepoem is currently appearing in Joyful! Link: Joyful!

My poem Feedsack Majesty will appear in Issue 7 of Mississippi Crow, a print journal.

Lost Boy is currently appearing in the Summer Celebration online edition and in the print edition of Cherry Blossom Review. Link: Cherry Blossom Review

I have an upcoming poem, Invocation, and a reading in Goblin Fruit, Spring, 2009.

Poet Fleda Brown recently reviewed my poem Bitch, which will appear in my upcoming chapbook from Pudding House. Following is her review from IBPC New Poetry Voices: PDF of Fleda Brown Commentary

"This poem lives up to its fierce title. It moves flawlessly into the craving, the mad passion that "gorges itself, and then slips to some cave apart/ to gnaw the bones of memory." I am in the presence here of pure energy, no blunder of language in the way between us. I love "rain beating/ like the frantic hands of a jealous wife," which may inform the poem, leaves us to guess that it does. Then the last stanza, which pulls us out of the immediate, tells us this passion is long past, but not at all, really. It's after the speaker "like a pack of hounds." What apt metaphors!" --Fleda Brown

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