Issue 10 of Alice Blue

Alice Blue is one of those magazines I gazed at longingly from the start, and now there's a new issue out with an amazing crowd: New prose from Ofelia Hunt, Andrew Borgstrom, Matt Bell, Matthew Simmons, Kathy Fish, Sasha Fletcher, P.H. Madore, Jon Swan, Joseph Young and Kimberly Ruth.

New poetry from Michael Sikkema, Jack Boetcher, Mara Vahrathian, Nicole Pollentier, J.R. Walsh, Theodore Worozbyt, Maged Zaher, J.P. Burnside, Jordan Stempleman, Olivia Cronk, Matt Morris, Gareth Lee, Julia Cohen, A.K. Scipioni, Thomas Cook - Tyler Dorholt, Marcia Arrieta, John Chavez, Chris Theim et moi.

What a nice little party!

Rejection 209

Weave Magazine don't want my weirdo-long-emily-dickinson-worded poem I wrote in Vermont.  Do you?

New Issue of 'Handsome' Finally Available.

Remember how great the first issue of Black Ocean's Handsome Journal was AWESOME?  Remember how having a first issue suggests there will be a second? 

Well, two years later (more? maybe a little less?) that second issue is finally here, containing the long-awaited work of:  Jeff Alessandrelli, Maureen Alsop, Stephanie Anderson, A K Beck, Dan Boehl, Paula Cisewski, Brianna Colburn, John Cotter, Daniel Coudriet, Jordan Davis, Christopher DeWeese, DJ Dolack, Brandon Downing, John Estes, Lucas Farrell, Ryan Flaherty, Sandy Florian, Charles Freeland, Emily Frey, J. Gallaher, Joe Hall, Shafer Hall, Matt Henricksen, Lyn Lifshin, Tony Mancus, Justin Marks, Marc Mckee, Keith Montesano, Trey Moody, Jefferson Navicky, Patty Paine, Michael Robins, Zach Savich, Rob Schlegel, Fred Schmalz, Maureen Thorson, Nance Van Winckel, Joshua Ware, Kerri Webster, and myself.

You can buy it here.  Well worth the wait, if I do say so myself.

Pushcart Nomination

Mr. Jon Fullmer just informed me that Knee-Jerk Magazine nominated my story, Before We Pass This Way Again, for a Pushcart Prize.  I am humbled and happy. Thank you, gentlemen!

Delayed Announcement of Story Up at Everyday Genius

I think my mind went at some point in December.  I never announced a new story I had up at Everyday Genius: Trap. There you have it.  Sasha Fletcher was guest-editing in December, and I was psyched about the work he pulled together.  Stroll the archives since I wasn't with it enough to announce this when it was new.

Rejection 208

Probably when an editor takes the time to follow the link to your blog, they couldn't have hated your poems that much, right?

Thanks for making me feel considered, Patty Paine at Diode.

So Much Newness At Robot Melon

There's a bevy, a veritable slew, of fantastic new work up at Robot Melon. The likes of Wagner Israel Cilio, Tammy Ho Lai-ming, Karen Wood Hepner, Kate Wyer, Kristen Eliason, Nicolle Elizabeth, Rachel Schramm, Howie Good, Becca Sheehan, Adam Showalter, Colleen Barry, Juliet Cook, Kendrick Daye, Christy Call, Mark Cunningham, Gena Mowish, Greg Lyte, and myself are represented.

Happy New Year!

Rejection 207

The Emerson Review has now rejected the second submission I sent them, after they asked me to send something.  I guess the stuff I'm sending them isn't as 'oil slick glow stick," or whatever, as the things of mine they read in other magazines.

Really, it's that no one seems to like my poetry.  Gar.  Ima write a poem bout how sad this makes me.

Franny the Bookstore Cat

Check it.  Literago has a new columnist and she's a bookstore cat.  No word on who's hiding their own identity/ job security behind this friendly feline. Wink.

Residency Rejection

I'm getting a little concerned that I might not line up a residency for the next year, and I really think they help me focus and get work done.  Ucross has rejected me.  Perhaps, if this is the case, I will drive to a different city and squat in an abandoned building for a couple weeks next fall.  Basically the same thing, right?