My poem "Mass Shootings #3: Saginaw (and Chicago), August 16, 2025" is upcoming in The New Verse News two days from now.

My reportage poem "Mass Shootings #3: Saginaw (and Chicago), August 16, 2025" is in The New Verse News at newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/09/mass-s… with new poetry by James Schwartz and Melissa Balmain (#SatanTalksToHisTherapist Sept23)

Down in the Dirt Magazine accepted my poem "This poem is going to be short, because my hope is leaving."

Penn State, Florida State, Ohio State, & Alabama today beat FIU, E Texas A&M, Grambling State, & LA-Monroe by a combined score of 254-3. 💤 🥱 😴

Both Finland & Greece are in the Eurobasket quarterfinals! Hyvää työtä, Suomi! Πάμε, Ελλάδα!

Great to write to-- youtube.com/watch?v=bMCiAK…

"Clouds are poems." —Ann Beattie born September 8, 1947 Washington, D.C. . (Happy birthday to my previous creative writing workshop professor & incredible writer!)

"A voice from the dark called out, ‘The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace, not only the absence of war.’ But peace," —Denise Levertov "Making Peace"

Incredible! I received the Missouri Humanities & GreenTower Press award in the Poetry category for my poem “I counseled survivors of torture” for the upcoming Northwest Missouri State University Laurel Review Proud To Be issue AND my poem "In Detroit, Nonfiction," is accepted for Rattle (a lit mag I ♡)

"Which poetry magazine do you think's the most respected?" "Poetry Magazine" "But which one?" "Poetry Magazine" "Yes, but which one?" "Poetry" "Yes, for poetry" "I told you" "Told me what?" "Poetry" "I know. That's what I'm asking. Which poetry magazine?" "Poetry." "Forget it."

Sharing space with Ron Riekki in the new issue of Trampoline Poetry: trampolinepoetry.com

My poem "During Desert Storm, I remember seeing these officers running" is in Trampoline Poetry: A Journal of Poetry at trampolinepoetry.com with new writing by the great Ace Boggess and Nicholas Pagano.

Wow! What a great poem!

My poem "I drive home after work" is in Sheila-Na-Gig Inc.: A poetry journal & small press at sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archive… with new writing by Seth Rosenbloom

Wanna win a Pulitzer for your writing? Here's who's had the most awards since 1987: (part 2) Ecco/Harper Collins—6 Penguin Books—5 New Directions—4 U Chicago Press—3 Wave Books—3 BOA Editions—2 LSU Press—2 TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern U Press—2 U Pittsburgh Press—2

Interested in winning a #Pulitzer Prize for your writing? Here's who to publish with, based on most awards since 1987: (part 1) Alfred A. Knopf—16 Farrar,Straus&Giroux—14 Copper Canyon Press—9 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—9 WW Norton & Co—9 Graywolf Press—8 Wesleyan U Press—7

Wonderful news. Solstice: a magazine of diverse voices nominated my poem "When I worked in the prison, it reminded me of the military, and" for Best of the Net, solsticelitmag.org/content/when-i… I am very thankful to the editors, especially Managing Editor Tierney Bailey. Thank you!

Gorgeous poem! Intensely impactful. Well deserved.